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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No need to kick him in the pearly whites while he's down mate!

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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[–] balderdash9 40 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you spent your month in Berlin, you didn't visit Germany. Common mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Lol.

It's like saying you didn't visit the US because you only went to NYC, but not Texas.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's still Bretzel.
Pretzl is like the disabled version of it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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. ❤️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leberkäse is common too where I am, especially when it comes to the LKW, the Leberkäsweckle

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

LKW mit ABS where i'm from Leberkäs Weck mit a bissle Senf. 😄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they are Leberkäse in Bavaria too, but I could be wrong

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I highly object that pretzels are a bavarian thing. But maybe I am the outlier. Love my pretzels. Not bavarian.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

To be fair, no need to be German to love sauerkraut, beer and bretzels.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Germany has great food! 👍

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The joke doesn't work with caucasian.

But you are right I should have used country.... I will change that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

How is that an insult? Those are amazing parts of German culture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Race is a largelly meaningless and ill defined term, so sure.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 ^^

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This guy's name is Michael Mittermeier fyi! He's been a comedian for ages!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Strange, I am German and I hate all three.

Best dish is dumplings with roulade and red cabbage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think hating all three goes too far. Now Sauerkraut can be an acquired taste. I get that. Some people would hate on you for hating beer but I get that too. Hating pretzels however shows that you are a horrible person. Or you need to avoid gluten and you are jealous us others can eat pretzels. Cus pretzels are amazing. One of the two.

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