Monday, December 15, 2008

Germans and food

A partial list of the things you can eat or drink at a German Christmas market: bratwurst, curry wurst, steak on a rock, fondue, raclette, mushrooms in cream sauce, mulled wine, mulled wine with amaretto, mulled wine with rum, salt pretzels, cheese pretzels, sugared pretzels, fried battered bananas, fried dough balls, apple fritters, fried potato pancakes*, a dozen variations of of sugar-coated almond, Italian pizza, German pizza, French crêpes, Belgian waffles, waffles coated with chocolate, tacos, burritos, cheese spätzle with or without onions, shish kabob, candy of a billion sorts, hot chocolate, hot chocolate with rum, schnapps, schnitzel, fried fish, pickled herring, baked salmon on a roll, smoked ham, baked ham, cotton candy, and popcorn.

*With apologies to Ben Franklin, reibekuchen is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

2 comments:

Ben Wilson said...

Hey David:

Merry Christmas, how about sedning me your email address.

Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson said...

ps. My email address is

bwilson_leasburg@hotmail.com