Because hot dog buns taste like shit. Sugary like cake and a consistency of marshmallows. Germans like real bread.
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Because they are fucking disgusting
Wurst is traditionally not really a street food. Bratwurst is to be eaten on a plate with knife and fork acompanied by potatoes and veggies of some description. Preserved Wurst like smoked Mettwurst is dry and can be eaten without holding it in any kind of bun. Boiled wurst like Bockwurst or Wiener Würstchen are cooked in a soup or stew.
So traditionally there was no need to have a fitting bun for the Wurst. Bratwurst in a bun is a relatively new thing (post war I'd guess) and germans just made it work with the buns that were available anyway. People got used to that, so nobody saw a need for any different kind of bun.
That's my personal take, so take it with a grain of salt.
So Wusrt on a stick would be more historically accurate?
First: It's Wurst not what you wrote.
Second: To my knowledge there is no traditional "Wurst on a stick" here in Germany.
Sorry, on mobile. Wurst, right?
My point is that adding a bun is less historically accurate than not. So Wurst on a stick would be closer to Wurst on a plate than Wurst in a bun.
Neither sausage-on-a-stick fast food nor sausage-in-a-bun fast food bear any resemblance to the traditional German way of serving wurst. Neither is "closer" they are both a million miles away from the original.
Bratwurst is to be eaten on a plate with a knife and fork? You're free to do whatever you want, but as a Thuringian I beg to differ.
Bratwurst in a half cut bun, or gtfo.
What do you mean by traditionally?
For the last 50 years you can get Bratwurst or Polish sausage in a „Brötchen“ to go at pretty much every foodtruck.
And same goes for Currywurst with fries. This is an German classic Bratwurst-to-go dish.
German Wurst-Tradition does not start 50 years ago. More like 500.
Your take on Wurst has no relevance for OP if by traditionally you mean 500 years ago. Who cares about 500 years ago? He wants to talk about recent events and you are here giving him a history lesson. 500 years ago NO MEAT was street food because most people were too poor to eat meat regularly. Of course you would treat eating meat like a special event.
You merely adopted the Wurst. I was born in a Metzgerei, moulded by it...
The solution are Nürnberger Bratwürste. They are just as long as a Kaiserbrötchen and you get 3 at a time which fits perfect in the other dimension too.
As a German I think of American hot dogs as disgusting sausage wrapped in disgusting bread.
If the buns were longer, you couldn't eat the delicious pure sausage first. Best technique is to extract the sausage bit by bit by drawing it with your teeth out of the bun. As dessert you'll get a sausage-and-mustard flavoured bun.
That's not possible with hot dogs, as neither the sausage nor the bun taste on their own. I'd even doubt they taste at all...
Was zum fick bin ich lesend? Du isst Wurst und Semmel getrennt?!?!?!
Viele Wege weisen zum wahren Wurstgenuss, wähle weise dem Anlass angemessen.
Do you mean the shape of the bun or the kind of bread? Kind of bread: because American bread sucks. Especially hot dog or burger buns.
The shape is a more interesting question, I feel.
It seems to me that you are talking mainly about southern Germany, because they call the buns 'Semmel'. In the north it’s more commonly called 'Brötchen', which are more elongated than the round Semmeln. Other regional names and variants exist, too. A Brötchen isn’t totally Form fitting like a hot dog bun is, either. My guess is that the bun exists more as a vehicle for the sausage as opposed to a real part of dish, like in a hot dog. Some people just eat a Bratwurst mit Senf with just a small piece of toast to hold it, some of them even discard the bread. Its all about the Wurst, baby. So why are the buns tasty themselves? Might be traditional German quality standards. Back when they still existed.
Just my observation bit most Germans eat with knife and fork. Also, wouldn't work with Currywurst (think of a cut up sausage in enough curry sauce to drown a good size...we'll...it's too much sauce. Cheeseburgers...I've only seen them eat with knife and fork. But that's just my observations (limited as they are)
I'm sorry, who the fuck eats a burger with cutlery? Except maybe some tiny amount of people in Restaurants (not Burger places)
I'm telling you who: Germans. Also, there must be placemats under plates.
So a tiny amount of people do this, and you generalise and say all Germans. Ok.
Sorry if you got all worked up about it....maybe you missed the part where I went out of my way to say it was an ANECDOTAL observation.
Untwist your panties and go along with your day.