thumb|Yellow Knorr (brand)|Knorr brand erbswurst with puck Erbswurst () is one of the oldest industrially produced ready meals. Not a true sausage, erbswurst is a set of pre-portioned pucks packaged in a sausage-shaped, aluminum-coated paper roll. From these, a creamy pea soup could be quickly prepared by crushing the portioned pieces, dissolving them in cold water, and boiling them for a few minutes.
thumb|Yellow Knorr (brand)|Knorr brand erbswurst with puck Erbswurst () is one of the oldest industrially produced ready meals. Not a true sausage, erbswurst is a set of pre-portioned pucks packaged in a sausage-shaped, aluminum-coated paper roll. From these, a creamy pea soup could be quickly prepared by crushing the portioned pieces, dissolving them in cold water, and boiling them for a few minutes.
== History == thumb|The figure of “Paula Erbswurst” in the satirical magazine Ulk (1896) Erbswurst was developed in 1867 by the cook and canning manufacturer . He soon sold his invention to the Prussian army for 35,000 Vereinstaler. It was promoted by , head of the food department in the Prussian War Ministry, who had it distributed from 1870 onwards during the Franco-Prussian War – initially as an "iron ration". This had been preceded by experiments by the War Ministry in which soldiers on normal service were fed exclusively pea sausage and kommissbrot for six weeks. At the outbreak of the war in 1870, the first production facility, the Royal Prussian Factory for Army Preserves, was built in Berlin at state expense. There, 1,700 workers initially produced seven tons of pea sausage a day; later this rose to up to 65 tons a day and a total of 4,000 to 5,000 employees.
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