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Oktoberfest: More Meat, Less Beer In Texas

It's Oktoberfest season, the time of year when anyone with an ounce of German blood stands up for his or her love of consuming large quantities of beer. Down in Texas, in a town called New Braunfels, residents celebrate their love for another delicacy of the Fatherland: the sausage.

They call it "Wurstfest: The 10-day salute to sausage," and it always begins on the Friday before the first Monday in November. This year, it's Nov. 2. For the last 46 years, the town has transformed a fairgrounds-sized park into a mini-Deutschland. More than 200,000 are expected to attend.

The event kicks off with the traditional "biting of the sausage," and though it focuses on seasoned meat stuffed into intestines, beer still manages to make a cameo says--and we're not making this up--the festival's Wurst Relations Director:

The biting of the sausage is like Oktoberfest's tapping of the keg. We have beer and we're not ashamed of it, but by the same token we're not a beer fest.

Related Stories:
· Wurstfest [Official Site]
· Texas' Wurstfest [CNN]
· Texas Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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