• balderdash@lemmy.zip
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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.

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      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.

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        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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        1 year ago

        Bavaria is probably the most “German” german region.

        So eine Frechheit! Nehmen Sie das sofort zurück!

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      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.

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      There is no german fast food except curry Wurst in Berlin. That doesnt mean there is no good german food. Just in Berlin there are viewer Restaurants selling german food than asian/ middle East and italian food and there is a lot of fast food. I dont know why there are so few German restaurants. In Munich you find more of them…

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        Yeah I found it so weird how much international food there was in Berlin. I had to go looking for more traditional dishes.

        Also, graffiti… graffiti, everywhere.

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      1 year ago

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