[Germany]life

[Arvind Mahendra]

Have you visited topless restaurant in Vegas?
[ September 10, 2007: Message edited by: Chunnard singh ]

[Frank Silbermann]

Originally posted by Bhiku Mhatre:

Germany is pork eating society. "Authentic" German restaurant do not offer much other than Pork and Beef cuisines. If you are offered a business-lunch/dinner, express your love for Italian/spanish food pre-emptively.

Meat seems to play a big role in German culture (and I include Austria in this). In the U.S., most of the big meat-packing plants were originally family businesses of German immigrants. Quite a few German/Austria cities' names have meat-product associations, e.g. Hamburg (hamburgers), Frankfurt (franfurters), Vienna (wieners), Worms (skinny sausages), Bratislava (bratwurst with coleslaw), Bonn (the bread roll that holds the hotdog or hamburger), Muenchen (what you're doin' after you buy your hamburger or hotdog -- you're munchin' it), Essen (short for "Delicatessen"), Goettingen (a city described by poet Heinrich Heine as being famous for its sausage and university) ...


[ September 10, 2007: Message edited by: Frank Silbermann ]