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.
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It's still Bretzel.
Pretzl is like the disabled version of it.
Brezel
Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.
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How is that an insult? Those are amazing parts of German culture.
Strange, I am German and I hate all three.
Best dish is dumplings with roulade and red cabbage.
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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
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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.
you can make Sauerkraut yourself quite easily. It should last you quite a bit too if you keep it in the fridge.
Okay this is gonna sound dumb but I'm bad at history. Is the reason there are so many German Asians because of the Axis during WWII?
Edit: Ah, it's because of the Vietnam war. This is mildly embarrassing but it's better than staying ignorant.
No.
A lot of people with (East) Asian roots in Germany are Vietnamese. West Germany had refugees during the American War in Vietnam and Eastern Germany had people coming over because of the socialist brotherhood thing (cheap workers for unpopular work).
Oh gotcha. That makes sense.
I changed it. Old version:
There are?
Only if we actually take all of Asia, then yes, there are a lot of people from West Asia in Germany. But that doesn't has anything to do with WWII and probably not what the user meant.
Yeah, someone else explained that they were refugees from the Vietnam War. That's what I get for making assumptions.
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Any country has its specialties and these German Meme things are certainly good, but in general German cuisine is not very sophisticated. In Europe by far it is Spanish and in general Mediterranean cuisine. I am from Spain and here the food is worldclass, apart there are also not only the best wines, but also the beer can compete with the German one. The worst cuisine is in Nordic countries and England, this is already off the scale, luckily there are good Chinese and Indian restaurants there that guarantee survival outside of fish and chips.
Nordic countries might have given us lutefisk, but that's just a cover for their top notch baked goods. Fresh krumkake is like the best ice cream cone you've ever had.
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Spain has Italy and France beat "by far"? Probably a bit biased.
Italy has a similar cuisine as Spain, but generally the Mediterranean cuisine is the best, France generally isn't bad, but quite overrated, we found the best Restaurants in Alsace, perhaps, if Seafood is your thing, you can add Marseille. Besides, the wines are good, but the French beer is horrible, it taste like dishwater. I have traveled a lot in Europe and I know what they offer in the culinary world and there is a clear trend of the further north, the worse. Maybe it has to do with the way of life and the climate. When forcefulness and calories prevail over sophistication.
A huge chunk of traditional Nordic food is either dirt-poor peasant food, or food that keeps for months on end so the brutal winter doesn't kill you regardless of whether you're a dirt-poor peasant or a hoity-toity lord (and this is what lutefisk is: usually low-quality dried fish cured in lye to soften it.)
Unfortunately this also means that many recipes are more or less lost, or really only written down in eg. family recipe books. And at least here in Finland we've also stopped using a majority of the local herbs we historically used, in large part because they're not seen as "fancy" (being herbs that dirt-poor peasants gathered from the woods) – not that we were ever that into spices, life being honestly pretty miserable for the majority of the population especially when serfdom was a thing. People had, well, other priorities
The moment I hear someone claim a culture's food isn't sophisticated unironically is the moment im going to shut my brain off. It's such a ridiculous claim no matter who it's directed at.
You like whatever food you like. It's not more complicated than that.
At this point I'm not sure if I'm too much racist or too much woke, because I absolutely don't understand what is the meaning of the joke. Is German a race now? Or are Asians (race?) supposed to hate pretzels for some reason?
It's just a meme that is used when someone stereotypes a group of people (not intending to offend), but the stereotype is is accurate.
basically "how dare you stereotype us, but also yes".
But he's really describing Germans as a race? I feel like my grandfather when I was talking to him about playing Sonic
Edit: I get it now, thanks for your effort
Yeah "Culture and our people" would fit better here
I changed it. Old sample is in the comments.
Vielen Dank mein sehr geehrter Schweinehund (sorry for bad German! 😊)
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Besser ist das.
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