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!
Are you singing this while in New York?
I wish I could get decent fish and chips or scones with clotted cream in Germany.
People shit on British food, but every time I visited the UK, the food has been fantastic. I even liked the haggis I tried.
i don’t know if I get the joke? could you please explain it because I don’t think(?) you’re trying to be racist
It’s literally from the damn movie.
ah lol ok
bruh I said I was wrong - the hivemind can be so pathetic
We just have to deal with it for the moment…
Lemmy is going through that middle-school/puberty age, with all the corny forced memes; (eg. The beans, stroganoff, etc. phases) bandwagon voting, and toying with the line between light-hearted and mean when trying to roast or joke around.
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Welchem Bundesland soll sie gehören?
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That’s one order of sauerkraut. Is there anything else I can get for you today sir?
Wieso
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. 😄
I think they are Leberkäse in Bavaria too, but I could be wrong
Can confirm. I call it Leberkäse. Well “Leberkaas” usually.
When you said Semmel my heart skipped.
You’ll often find it called it either and it never had anything to do with Leber, but Leib… which doesn’t mean that certain regions don’t put liver in it. Calling it Käse is the suspicious part.
Above the Weißwurstäquator it’s known as “that Bavarian stuff” because German law says that if you call something Leberkäse then it has to contain liver unless it’s called Bayrischer Leberkäse. You also won’t find Brezeln, or, differently put, only ones which sole purpose it is to insult Bavaria (same thing the English do with Croissants) and as to Sauerkraut, it’s severely out of fashion. Weißkrautsalat, Rotkohl, yes, but you’re basically more likely to find someone who figured out Kimchi than people who eat old-style Sauerkraut.
The native stuff up here is falscher Hase, that is, the same (approximately) meatloaf that Anglos know.
The Swiss apparently exclusively call it Fleischkäse.
On Wikipedia it’s stated the other way around. “Leber-” because there was actually liver in it some time ago and “-käse” due to its shape.
„Leber“ leitet sich aus „Laib“ ab, was auf die Form des Fleischkäses zurückzuführen ist.
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Die Bezeichnung als Käse leitet sich lediglich von der Form der Laibe ab.
Idk… Das steht bei mir im zweiten Absatz. 😅
Und was hat der Satz mit Leber zu tun?
A friend of mine has a little farm and he used to make that himself, I like the store bough one already but there is no comparison!
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
That’s a part of Germany I tend to avoid so I didn’t know.
What the heck, bist n Spießer oder watt :P
I’m just scared of Kölsch beer.
I highly object that pretzels are a bavarian thing. But maybe I am the outlier. Love my pretzels. Not bavarian.
Don’t the Saxons have pretzels too? I’m Czech and I remember seeing them in Dresden (although it was the Christmas markets)
You can buy Brezel everywhere in Germany. They are also a traditional food handed out during St Martin.
I think perhaps the person meant eating it as meal with Sauerkraut. In other places than Bavaria most people buy Brezel at a bakery on the go. And don’t necessarily eat it with Sauerkraut
It’s the exact same in Bavaria. Eating it with Kraut is rare, that’s not something inherently Bavarian or anything.
Brezn go well with Weißwurst and sweet mustard early in the day or together with Obazda, onions and radish as a brotzeit snack in the afternoon or evening, both together with a Weißbier. Other than that Brezn are more of a to-go-pastry, often as butterbreze.
And although brezn are available everywhere in germany, there are regional differences in how they are made and they are more popular in the south.
All of that is true although I would add there’s a lot more variation than only Butterbreze. Therese Käsebreze, maybe with additional ham or salami, there’s Pfefferbreze, Mexikobreze and so on.
But to come back to the original point. No one eats them with Sauerkraut.
Yes, the first part of my answer was rather limited to Bavaria, where Brezn can be part of a meal but not along with Kraut and where Butterbreze is the most popular variation if not part of a meal. Also some fresh cheese with herbs instead of butter is common. Afaik the other variations are more popular outside of Bavaria.
I mostly meant the combination of things. Also pretzels in the north of Germany are often of pretty meh quality from my experience.
Weißwurst comes to mind as a hopefully just Bavarian thing.
neighbor state to Bavaria
Never have I felt Baden-Württemberg to be so utterly disrespected
Jokes aside, potato salad is an absolute banger that goes with so many wildly different meals
Whenever I said Baden-Württemberg to an English speaker they just say Gesundheit. 🤷🏻♂️
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I have always thought that it’s called that because it makes you fart.
Also if you ever forget where you are just walk into a bakery and ask what the bread rolls are called. You’ll get a different answer depending on the region.
Schnitzel, spatzle, and spargel, the most delicious things that sound like you’re making shit up.
“You could use chicken, but you still have to hammer it flat.” “Come on. And they make the noodles with a colander? The thing you drain noodles in?” “No really, and there’s aspargus, but they grow it underground so it turns white.” “If you don’t know, don’t lie.”
To be fair, no need to be German to love sauerkraut, beer and bretzels.
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).
Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.
Am dumb American, enlighten us.
Looks delicious but not overly different from what I’m used to.
My guess is they think you only have the small crunchy ones in the US like these:
I actually don’t like those ones at all, ha ha.
A Brezel has to be eaten fresh. Once it’s older than 30 minutes it gets stale and stops being a proper Brezel!
Okay?
If you get the chance of eating a fresh German pretzel, please compare it to American “Soft pretzels” :)
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.
Much appreciated
Caucasian isn’t a race either. We’re all the human race.
Race doesn’t exist in human biology. Genetically a caucasian could be closer to an aborigine than another caucasian, what we perceive as race are relatively unimportant and tiny parts of our genetic makeup.
However, race exists as a signifier in social studies, because people experience the world and are treated differently when they have different race-perception. For example black men driving expensive cars will be pulled over more frequently. Hence race exists as a social concept because people treat it like it exists in more than just that.
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They changed it to that
Race?
Race is a largelly meaningless and ill defined term, so sure.
Countrymen
Fellow Germans
Nation
Several terms available other than “race”, as Germans aren’t a “race”.
Wurst Enjoyers
*Breed
Human.
Germany has great food! 👍
Very much agree.
Beer is fantastic too!
How is that an insult? Those are amazing parts of German culture.
This guy’s name is Michael Mittermeier fyi! He’s been a comedian for ages!
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 ^^
Grünkohl is fucking amazing, yes! Spent some time in Friesland when I was younger and Grünkohl along with some good sausages and mustard blew my mind
Bestes ist Wirsing mit Kartoffelpüree. Wir nennen das “Schlappschlapp” hier.
Strange, I am German and I hate all three.
Best dish is dumplings with roulade and red cabbage.
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.
It isn’t gluten, but I moved from a town with best pretzels ever to a town with shitty ones. Now I hate them.
I can forgive the hate for shitty pretzels. It’s tough to move away from a great place got food. I still struggle to find good Shawarma anywhere since I moved away from a bigger city.
The pretzel itself is unimportant so long as it can serve as a vehicle for big rocks of salt.
Oh yes, especially with a red wine based sauce. I can’t wait for autumn and winter. ( my wife thinks is weird to it when is warm outside)
