As a Brit living in another country, I get this too. People make jokes about me liking Doctor Who, drinking lots of tea and having bad teeth.
How dare you but also that is completely accurate.
No need to kick him in the pearly whites while he's down mate!
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I spent a month in Germany last year. Turns out the most authentic German food is currywurst and middle eastern food lol.
But maybe that's just in Berlin. They probably have good potato based dishes in Bavaria.
Bavaria is probably the most "German" german region. That's where all the lederhosen stereotypes come from.
Basically it's the Texas of Germany. Old school, religious, and conservative.
Edit: in the very rural parts, they even have their own dialect that to some Germans is almost completely unintelligible. I realized this when I took German language classes in high school in the USA and what they were having me learn was very much NOT the way my Bavarian mother spoke to me. It felt kind of irritating when they told me I was pronouncing things wrong and my grammar was wrong when I fuckin' lived there as a child and spoke it fluently.
Well it's the part where after the second world war Americans temporarily governed and American soldiers and their families where stationed. So all they ever saw of Germany was Bavaria. They took their experience back home and so the image spread.
Northern Germany is nothing like southern Germany. Yes they like their beer, but Bratwurst and pretzels? More fish and bread.
I was with you in the first half. But northern Germany still loves their beer and brats. We had bbqs almost every weekend and if you didn't have beer and brats, you might as well not have a party.
Although there almost always way just a full fish on the grill at some point only in northern Germany so I will give you that.
If you spent your month in Berlin, you didn't visit Germany. Common mistake.
Lol.
It's like saying you didn't visit the US because you only went to NYC, but not Texas.
Nah you are close. We eat "Döner" (a turkish dish modified for Germany, basically a german invention) curry wurst and "Wiener Schnitzel" with french fires.
We drink beer all over the country but about every 50 km you have a different kind of beer that is prefered and don't you dare to say a different beer is better.
Also the glasses in which the beer is drunken grows from north to south.
The Döner is a German food though, it was invented in Berlin.
When I was a kid it was more common to have German restaurants and Imbiss. But they can't compete in price and speed with cheaper alternatives in the cities. That's why they were gradually replaced. When you want to eat some more traditional German cuisine, you'd have to go to smaller towns or a hotel restaurant.
It's still Bretzel.
Pretzl is like the disabled version of it.
Brezel
This. It's Brezel, Brezn, Breze or Brezl. Never is there a t in there. Except in Swiss German, which hardly is German at all.
I spent some time in Germany last year, and the pretzels/sauerkraut/doner/spaetzel/currywurst are all top notch.
But holy fuck, fleishkase. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I returned to the US. I've looked up how to make it several times, but it seems pretty complicated. Damn me and my lazy American tendencies.
That and the beer. I discovered that Dunkels are my fucking jam. Ugh, so good.
TIL that they call it "Fleischkäse" in Germany... Here in Austria it's "Leberkäse" (liver cheese) even though there isn't any liver in it (anymore).
But yes, nothing better than a Semmel with a thick slice of Leberkäse. ❤️
Leberkäse is common too where I am, especially when it comes to the LKW, the Leberkäsweckle
LKW mit ABS where i'm from Leberkäs Weck mit a bissle Senf. 😄
Food in Germany is highly regional. You can have Kebab everywhere. The Sauerkraut beer and pretzels thing is mostly just Bavaria in the south. At the north sea and Baltic sea you got lots of fish naturally. In Hamburg you have Croques, Aalsuppe and further north Lapskaus. In the southern neighbor state to Bavaria you have Spätzle. And so on.
The beer also changes depending on region. Weißbier in the south and more mild beer in general down there. The north prefers beer with stronger taste that is more bitter generally.
There are few German foods which are generally accepted in all regions. Currywurst is one I'd say. Maybe grill Hähnchen as well although in the eat it'll be called Broiler while in the north noone has ever heard that word. Bratkartoffeln might also be pretty universal although ingredients probably differ. Egg or no egg, pickles or not.
Tldr German food is very different depending on region.
The Sauerkraut beer and pretzels thing is mostly just Bavaria in the south
What? I live in the Ruhrgebiet, you get Brezel and beer everywhere. Sauerkraut is a staple as well
I highly object that pretzels are a bavarian thing. But maybe I am the outlier. Love my pretzels. Not bavarian.
To be fair, no need to be German to love sauerkraut, beer and bretzels.
Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.
To be fair, the only sauerkraut I've ever had that actually tasted good was part of a dish made by a German immigrant (in America).
Germans aren't a "race".
The joke doesn't work with caucasian.
But you are right I should have used country.... I will change that.
How is that an insult? Those are amazing parts of German culture.
It’s ok, like nothing special. Grünkohl is way better but I have another favourite. I would share it, but it’s so regional I’d basically doxx myself. And even if you’d know it, you don’t want to know what it’s made of ^^
Mettwurst, pickles and salami are part of my eating habits I exported. Getting good sauerkraut is difficult even in Germany, it's all just the cheap vinegar stuff instead of lactaid acid.
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