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choco_froshAlthough I generally like Germany, there are some things that I miss, or still find werid or annoying. Let's start with some BRITISH things that I miss.
1) Bitter. Beer here is obviously of generally higher quality than is generally true in the states (Regensburg has at least five breweries), but it's pretty much a choice between Pils, rather sweetish Dunkel, and Hefeweizen. Not that there's anything wrong with Hefeweizen, but...
2) Bread. It's mostly a choice between white bread and Bauernbrot, which tends to be rather sour. I miss British bakeries. Guess I'll be baking more than I thought.
3) Green Belts. I mean yeah, I can run out into actual fields from where I live, but there seems to have been a good deal more unplanned and ill-directed development.
Other Things:
4) I already mentioned that we live twenty minutes from the Uni campus, right?
5) Partly as a result (walking much more), all my socks have decided to start wearing out. And I think some of them blew off the clothesline or got stolen by magpies the first time I did laundry.
6) Weird: German food. It's not the things like sauerbraten and schweineshachse; I'd expected that. It's the existance of things like Wurstsalat, which really is what it sounds like (don't order it), or herring in dill sauce (actually pretty tasty, but a bit odd when you see it in the butcher's next to the potato salad, as well as inevitably reminding one of the Herring Sandwich Experiments).
Also the absence of branflakes. In the UK, I almost invariably ate branflakes with Muesli for breakfast. In the US there are branflakes, but you have to make the muesli yourself (still haven't gotten around to that). Here Müsli is everywhere, but you can't get branflakes for love or money. What the heck do health-conscious Germans eat in the mornings?
ADDED: Also the fact that there is such a thing as Currywurst.
1) Bitter. Beer here is obviously of generally higher quality than is generally true in the states (Regensburg has at least five breweries), but it's pretty much a choice between Pils, rather sweetish Dunkel, and Hefeweizen. Not that there's anything wrong with Hefeweizen, but...
2) Bread. It's mostly a choice between white bread and Bauernbrot, which tends to be rather sour. I miss British bakeries. Guess I'll be baking more than I thought.
3) Green Belts. I mean yeah, I can run out into actual fields from where I live, but there seems to have been a good deal more unplanned and ill-directed development.
Other Things:
4) I already mentioned that we live twenty minutes from the Uni campus, right?
5) Partly as a result (walking much more), all my socks have decided to start wearing out. And I think some of them blew off the clothesline or got stolen by magpies the first time I did laundry.
6) Weird: German food. It's not the things like sauerbraten and schweineshachse; I'd expected that. It's the existance of things like Wurstsalat, which really is what it sounds like (don't order it), or herring in dill sauce (actually pretty tasty, but a bit odd when you see it in the butcher's next to the potato salad, as well as inevitably reminding one of the Herring Sandwich Experiments).
Also the absence of branflakes. In the UK, I almost invariably ate branflakes with Muesli for breakfast. In the US there are branflakes, but you have to make the muesli yourself (still haven't gotten around to that). Here Müsli is everywhere, but you can't get branflakes for love or money. What the heck do health-conscious Germans eat in the mornings?
ADDED: Also the fact that there is such a thing as Currywurst.
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Date: 2005-09-05 07:00 pm (UTC)"The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door. Frantically he beat his wings to gain altitude, looking like a small black electric fan. An updraft caught him and threw him into the sky. He circled twice, to get his bearings, and began to fly north.
"Below, the shopkeeper stood with his hands on his hips, looking up at the diminishing cinder in the sky. Presently he shrugged and went back into his delicatessen. He was not without philosophy, this shopkeeper, and he knew that if a raven comes into your delicatessen and steals a whole baloney, it is either an act of God or it isn't, and in either case there isn't very much you can do about it."
—Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
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Date: 2005-09-06 06:39 am (UTC)-g