Hailing from Saarland, verheiratete is a combination of boiled potatoes, flour-based dumplings, and a creamy bacon sauce. This simple German dish is known by the names of verheiratete and geheirate (also geheiratete or geheirade), both with the same meaning of married, the married ones, or a married couple.

The name refers to the act of joining or marrying separate ingredients together into one meal, just like when two people are united together in marriage. In Saarland, this dish used to be a part of the poor people’s diet due to the simple, everyday ingredients of which it consists.