Heaving with bratwurst and meaty delicacies, Vienna's popular sausage stands are a popular cultural landmark, so much so that the owners of 15 stands are applying for Vienna sausage stand culture to be recognised as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. "We want to create a kind of quality seal for Vienna sausage stands," says 36-year-old Patrick Tondl, whose family owns Leo's Wuerstelstand -- the Austrian capital's oldest operating sausage stand.
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00:00We want to create a kind of quality seal for Viennese sausage stands and we want to
00:29have them as members, because there are other sausage stands that also have their
00:36authority, but we really try, as a sausage stand, as it already existed 100 years ago
00:42in Vienna, to stand together and perhaps also on the one hand to mark these companies
00:48in the sense of members of the association of the Vienna sausage stands.
00:59My grandfather started and he still had a car that he pulled behind him and he put it
01:13somewhere and it actually started before the war.
01:19At the moment the situation at the sausage stand is quite good, I think, because at home
01:39the restaurants are more difficult, because everything has become so expensive and our
01:42advantage is that you can still eat and drink here very quickly for less than 10 euros and
01:47that is very important for many customers at the moment, because of course many have
01:53less money available for gastronomy and other luxuries, I would say.