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sr71blackbird

01-03-2009, 01:07 PM

I am going to a German resturant tomorrow, and wonder what's good to eat. I do not like food that has a lot of sauce or powerful flavor. I like mild food, especially when I am unfamilar with the menue. What is good "safe" German food?
Any suggestions? Also feel free to talk about your favorite dishes from the Fatherland!

pennington

01-03-2009, 01:10 PM

Bratwurst with the German potato salad with some nice dark bread on the side. What restaurant are you going to?

A.J.

01-03-2009, 01:10 PM

http://parthenonfoods.com/images/KnorrSpatzleBag.jpg

lleeder

01-03-2009, 01:12 PM

Its the wurst. a-booooooooo

Dude!

01-03-2009, 01:17 PM

when you go to a german restaurant
check out the ovens in the kitchen

you want to make sure they are only cooking food in there

lleeder

01-03-2009, 01:20 PM

when you go to a german restaurant
check out the ovens in the kitchen

you want to make sure they are only cooking food in there

Thats true cause sometimes they put old newspapers in there. No thats Italians. Oh you mean, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

MacVittie

01-03-2009, 01:22 PM

I've seen a few videos where Germans are eating some pretty strange things.

weekapaugjz

01-03-2009, 01:24 PM

Potato pancakes with applesauce.

razorboy

01-03-2009, 01:28 PM

http://parthenonfoods.com/images/KnorrSpatzleBag.jpg

Spatzle and schnitzel.

sailor

01-03-2009, 01:35 PM

Spatzle and schnitzel.

und spaten

razorboy

01-03-2009, 01:44 PM

und spaten

and schokokuss.

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 01:56 PM

and schokokuss.

you mean a Negerkuss also known as Dickmann?

sailor

01-03-2009, 02:01 PM

you mean a Negerkuss also known as Dickmann?

http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/difranco.gif

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 02:09 PM

http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/difranco.gif

it's not my fault, that's what they are called
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/403564567_e78fa6edc6.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,572099,00.jpg

google Negerkuss and the image will come up

sailor

01-03-2009, 02:21 PM

it's not my fault, that's what they are called
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/127/403564567_e78fa6edc6.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,572099,00.jpg

google Negerkuss and the image will come up

just because a lot of people call it something don't mean it's ok.

http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/i-brazilnuts.jpg

(you may need that one explained to ya.)

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 02:24 PM

just because a lot of people call it something don't mean it's ok.

http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/i-brazilnuts.jpg

(you may need that one explained to ya.)

I thought my grandparents were the only people who used that term.

Double-Ani on you.

sailor

01-03-2009, 02:33 PM

I thought my grandparents were the only people who used that term.

Double-Ani on you.

everyone of that generation used that term, most often not even thinking about it.

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 02:35 PM

everyone of that generation used that term, most often not even thinking about it.

I never met anybody who'd admit to it other than my dad's parents, but I guess it makes sense.

sailor

01-03-2009, 02:39 PM

I never met anybody who'd admit to it other than my dad's parents, but I guess it makes sense.

my grandmother (from the almost south) told us of using it once to a black person at a store and immediately being super embarrassed and apologizing. she told us everyone used it, but after that point she cut it out of her vocab.

and yeah, i can't imagine a lot of folk would admit to using it.

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 02:41 PM

just because a lot of people call it something don't mean it's ok.

(you may need that one explained to ya.)

Neger was never bad term. You can't even compare it to the N word. It was simply a German term derived from negro, the color and therefore compared to the treat.

But have you seen a Amerikaner and Berliner?

http://www.mamas-rezepte.de/bilder/amirikaner.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/2151743169_20e0d94479.jpg

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 02:48 PM

Neger was never bad term. You can't even compare it to the N word. It was simply a German term derived from negro, the color and therefore compared to the treat.

But have you seen a Amerikaner and Berliner?

http://www.mamas-rezepte.de/bilder/amirikaner.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/2151743169_20e0d94479.jpg

So...an Americaner is a Black-and-White cookie?

RANDOM ANECDOTE TIME: My friend went to Berlin while she was doing a semester abroad and brought back a doughnut-shaped keychain with "Ich bin ein Berliner" on it, which I thought was pretty funny, even if it's not really saying that, but I'd grown up with the scurrilous rumor that JFK's "Berliner" speech basically translated to "I am a doughnut" when he used that phrase...and had shared it with multiple friends, including that one, who didn't think it was as hilarious as I did, hence the hilarity about the keychain.

Does a Berliner pastry taste like a jelly doughnut? That photo looks like it's a "no," but I'm curious.

CuntagiousChris

01-03-2009, 02:48 PM

That looks delicious i just got some German shortbread spice cookies that were fucking outstanding

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 02:52 PM

Back to German foods ... my family has two recipes for sauer braten, one of which I assisted in for a history project in high school - we were doing some sort of Ellis Island unit in US II and all of us had to do a family tree and bring in a family recipe for a kind of "United Nations Brunch."

This is a long way to say that I like sauer braten, especially our family's "light gravy" recipe. ("Light" in this case refers to the color of the gravy, not its supposed caloric or fat content.)

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 02:58 PM

So...an Americaner is a Black-and-White cookie?

RANDOM ANECDOTE TIME: My friend went to Berlin while she was doing a semester abroad and brought back a doughnut-shaped keychain with "Ich bin ein Berliner" on it, which I thought was pretty funny, even if it's not really saying that, but I'd grown up with the scurrilous rumor that JFK's "Berliner" speech basically translated to "I am a doughnut" when he used that phrase...and had shared it with multiple friends, including that one, who didn't think it was as hilarious as I did, hence the hilarity about the keychain.

Does a Berliner pastry taste like a jelly doughnut? That photo looks like it's a "no," but I'm curious.

depends on where you get it. In my neck of the woods a good Berliner is a bit more greasy and chewy than in Berlin or the western parts where it is more fluffy... it pretty much tastes a lot like a strawberry doughnut.

We have a "funny" thing that is done with it during carnival season. One of the Berliner gets filled with mustard instead and nobody knows which one... so these are usually served at Carnival and one person is the dummy to get the "bad" one

Lady Resin

01-03-2009, 02:58 PM

Potato pancakes with applesauce.

You just cracked me up. When my husband and I were dating we went to go out to dinner with my future in-laws and his brothers and sister. We went to the Hofbrauhaus in Atlantic Highlands in NJ. My drunk Irish FIL went to wipe his face and used a potato pancake as a napkin. :lol:I had Wienerschnitzel and Spätzle. Yummy.

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 03:09 PM

depends on where you get it. In my neck of the woods a good Berliner is a bit more greasy and chewy than in Berlin or the western parts where it is more fluffy... it pretty much tastes a lot like a strawberry doughnut.

We have a "funny" thing that is done with it during carnival season. One of the Berliner gets filled with mustard instead and nobody knows which one... so these are usually served at Carnival and one person is the dummy to get the "bad" one

Thank you for the flavor thing. I've always wanted to know. (Yes, I understand that this is weird. Sue me.)

Just clarify one small thing: "Carnival" as in the lead-in to Fat Tuesday and Lent or "Carnival" as in a state fair or church bazaar that we might hold here in the US?

Either way, that mustard thing is pretty funny. More like a practical joke than anything else. (I know I'd laugh.)

lleeder

01-03-2009, 03:12 PM

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 03:24 PM

Thank you for the flavor thing. I've always wanted to know. (Yes, I understand that this is weird. Sue me.)

Just clarify one small thing: "Carnival" as in the lead-in to Fat Tuesday and Lent or "Carnival" as in a state fair or church bazaar that we might hold here in the US?

Either way, that mustard thing is pretty funny. More like a practical joke than anything else. (I know I'd laugh.)

Carnival, also known as Fasching starts November 11th at 11:11 AM.
There are clubs that meet every week until the real Carnival in February.
Its called the Narrenzeit (Narr = Joker) and is extremely popular along the Rhine River. Cologne is a big city for it.
In February is the actual Carnival day and usually kids (and adults)dress up much like we do at Halloween and go begging for treats from house to house.

This is me at Fasching back in the day (can ya spot me???)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/KatjaVillanueva/Kindheit/Fashing3.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/KatjaVillanueva/Kindheit/Fasching3b.jpg

joethebartender

01-03-2009, 03:32 PM

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 03:35 PM

Is that you in the top right about to hang yourself?

no, I am the adorable one...lol

Lady Resin

01-03-2009, 03:42 PM

1st one on the right?

Farmer Dave

01-03-2009, 04:00 PM

http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes/images/i-brazilnuts.jpg

(you may need that one explained to ya.)
I don't think I knew they were called anything else until I was 16. Now I have a nephew & niece with them if you look in their socks.

CHUCKWAGONCOOK

01-03-2009, 04:34 PM

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 04:41 PM

sauerbraten mit klose und rotkraut (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=zPx&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=sauerbraten+mit+klasse+und+rotkraut&spell=1)

est miene liebling.

Ist mein Liebstes.
and I actually LOVE Kloesse & Rotkraut. I usually never eat the meat of whatever Braten gets made with it but just use the gravy.

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 04:43 PM

1st one on the right?

nope... the one on the left with the braids. Not sure what my costume was...lol

CHUCKWAGONCOOK

01-03-2009, 04:59 PM

Ist mein Liebstes.
and I actually LOVE Kloesse & Rotkraut. I usually never eat the meat of whatever Braten gets made with it but just use the gravy.

I went to School at the Bad Kissingen Beruf Schule aus cook. I was an apprentice under Klause Vertack in Schweinfurt at the Zum Erdinger Wiesbrau Gasthause.

I \ve lost so much of my Duetch from not writting it or talking with anyone. This is a real pleasure to know your german Katja/

I like my Klose with the little croutons in the middle of them. Und Weiswurst mit seuse senf
und brotchen

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 05:05 PM

I went to School at the Bad Kissingen Beruf Schule aus cook. I was an apprentice under Klause Vertack in Schweinfurt at the Zum Erdinger Wiesbrau Gasthause.

I \ve lost so much of my Duetch from not writting it or talking with anyone. This is a real pleasure to know your german Katja/

I like my Klose with the little croutons in the middle of them. Und Weiswurst mit seuse senf
und brotchen

Rohe Kloesse usually have the roasted bread cubes inside. My grandma used to make the best.
I also love Semmelknoedel and even more Hefenkloesse mit Heidelbeeren or Pflaumenkompott.

meanmrbill

01-03-2009, 05:14 PM

Some of the best things in this world are German women, German food and German beer. Enjoy whatever is put in front of you!!

Thebazile78

01-03-2009, 05:17 PM

Carnival, also known as Fasching starts November 11th at 11:11 AM.
There are clubs that meet every week until the real Carnival in February.
Its called the Narrenzeit (Narr = Joker) and is extremely popular along the Rhine River. Cologne is a big city for it.
In February is the actual Carnival day and usually kids (and adults)dress up much like we do at Halloween and go begging for treats from house to house.

This is me at Fasching back in the day (can ya spot me???)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/KatjaVillanueva/Kindheit/Fashing3.jpg
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/KatjaVillanueva/Kindheit/Fasching3b.jpg

I actually have a friend who's from Cologne ... she remembers St. Marten's Day as being when you'd go house-to-house singing songs for treats. Nowadays she says it's become more like Halloween and that makes her sad.

Thanks for the full explication. It's fun to learn new things!

CHUCKWAGONCOOK

01-03-2009, 05:23 PM

Rohe Kloesse usually have the roasted bread cubes inside. My grandma used to make the best.
I also love Semmelknoedel and even more Hefenkloesse mit Heidelbeeren or Pflaumenkompott.
How about the Pflaumenkucken. Or maybe some Hochzeit knoedel mit the bread crumbs and butter. Is that called Strauesel?

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 05:35 PM

How about the Pflaumenkucken. Or maybe some Hochzeit knoedel mit the bread crumbs and butter. Is that called Strauesel?

My sister loves dry Streuselkuchen, I like the creamfilled kind if at all, I prefer a Pflaumenkuchen or even Rabarberkuchen, again, my grandma used to make the best. Most "Blech"kuchen (Blech = baking sheet) are topped with Streusel.
I miss the summers when we get the plums, cherries or rhubarb from our garden and make these cakes with her.

~Katja~

01-03-2009, 05:38 PM

I actually have a friend who's from Cologne ... she remembers St. Marten's Day as being when you'd go house-to-house singing songs for treats. Nowadays she says it's become more like Halloween and that makes her sad.

Thanks for the full explication. It's fun to learn new things!

Some cities are actually starting to adapt to Halloween. So they have that and Carnival.

I know Cologne is one of the biggest Carnival cities, they even have their weird thing they yell out all through that time "Koelle alaaf" and I have no clue what it means, but usually people drink to it :) It is a really bad drunk time and a lot of kids are conceived during carnival season...lol

WhistlePig

01-03-2009, 07:09 PM

Though I'm a vegetarian I love German food. Every time I've gotten the vegetarian plate at a German restaurant I've loved it. Potato pancakes, saurkraut, red cabbage, YUM!

sr71blackbird

01-03-2009, 07:59 PM

So, if I have a sensitive stomach, what is the safest dish I should order?

razorboy

01-03-2009, 08:04 PM

So, if I have a sensitive stomach, what is the safest dish I should order?

Spatzle and schnitzel is pretty safe.

furie

01-03-2009, 08:07 PM

go with either schnitzel or sauerbraten

furie

01-03-2009, 08:07 PM

brilthorladros

01-03-2009, 08:09 PM

try the schwiene hackes with spetzel und red cabbage or the jagger schnitzle. never forget "work will set you free"

sr71blackbird

01-03-2009, 08:45 PM

where are you going?

Its a new restaurant in Lindenhurst. Its on Welwood Av, but I dont know the name. I have to meet everyone at m cousins house.

sr71blackbird

01-03-2009, 08:47 PM

Schnitzel sounds like my best bet. Basically a veal cutlet it seems like. Thanks!

A.J.

01-04-2009, 09:10 AM

http://collateraldamage.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/kinderegg.jpg

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 09:12 AM

http://collateraldamage.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/kinderegg.jpg

I have 2 in my cupboard... 2 left... my mom always brings a dozen or 2

BlackSpider

01-04-2009, 09:13 AM

I have 2 in my cupboard... 2 left... my mom always brings a dozen or 2

Bring me one...

- and a corkscrew...

A.J.

01-04-2009, 09:14 AM

I have 2 in my cupboard... 2 left... my mom always brings a dozen or 2

Let me know when you run out. Next time I fly through Frankfurt, I'll bring some back. No trouble since I'm going to try and bring Ron some "gifts" from Germany as well.

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 09:16 AM

best chocolate ever
http://www.standart-tolleranz-maschiene.de/uploads/grafiken/kinderriegel.jpg
http://www.mediamitsenf.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/kinderriegel.jpg

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 09:18 AM

Let me know when you run out. Next time I fly through Frankfurt, I'll bring some back. No trouble since I'm going to try and bring Ron some "gifts" from Germany as well.

I ration them for my son. They are "illegal" here because of the small parts and choking hazzards... :(

but the bars are just as good if not better and sometimes shoprite or wegmans have them.

we usually shove them in real egg cartons between the luggage so they don't break

A.J.

01-04-2009, 09:22 AM

I ration them for my son. They are "illegal" here because of the small parts and choking hazzards... :(

but the bars are just as good if not better and sometimes shoprite or wegmans have them.

we usually shove them in real egg cartons between the luggage so they don't break

Yeah, that's right. I heard that.

The bars ARE good. These are not bad either.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/418908108_b881cc3f6b_o.jpg

MacVittie

01-04-2009, 10:16 AM

Carnival, also known as Fasching starts November 11th at 11:11 AM.

Was that tradition started before or after 1918?

Jujubees2

01-04-2009, 10:22 AM

Though I'm a vegetarian I love German food. Every time I've gotten the vegetarian plate at a German restaurant I've loved it. Potato pancakes, saurkraut, red cabbage, YUM!

Vegetarian here too. But when I went to visit the in-laws who were stationed in Bad Aibling (just south of Munich), I lost about ten pounds. All the places the in-laws took us to featured bratwurst and beer (and I don't drink - I think the in-laws did it on purpose). Ate a lot of PB&Js at the in-laws house and visited the local bakery just about every day. But we had a blast traveling from Southern germany up to Cologne. My wife really enjoyed it as she fluent in German, havng spent three years there as a kid when her father was in the Army and her mother sent her to the local Catholic school where she was taught german by the nuns. She then went back for a postgrad year in Erlangen.

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 10:35 AM

Vegetarian here too. But when I went to visit the in-laws who were stationed in Bad Aibling (just south of Munich), I lost about ten pounds. All the places the in-laws took us to featured bratwurst and beer (and I don't drink - I think the in-laws did it on purpose). Ate a lot of PB&Js at the in-laws house and visited the local bakery just about every day. But we had a blast traveling from Southern germany up to Cologne. My wife really enjoyed it as she fluent in German, havng spent three years there as a kid when her father was in the Army and her mother sent her to the local Catholic school where she was taught german by the nuns. She then went back for a postgrad year in Erlangen.

Bavaria and the south are really bad with lots of meat dishes. From Schweinshaxe (eew) to Sauerbraten, Weisswurst and Bratwurst, it's about all they eat.
If you go further north and north East you do find a much different cooking style.

One thing I always liked is Leipziger Allerlei, a vegetable soup known to the regions of Saxony, mainly Leipzig and Dresden.

I know growing up our bbq's were much different than they are here. We always had loads and loads of fresh cut veggies and some dips like zatziki (sp), we also grilled veggie kabobs and potatoes. Usually you will find grilled marinated chicken breast, turkey sausages and marinated thin steaks, sometimes Roster which is like a Bratwurst and it gets basted and sprinkled with beer while grilling.

sailor

01-04-2009, 01:08 PM

I know growing up our bbq's were much different than they are here. We always had loads and loads of fresh cut veggies and some dips like zatziki (sp), we also grilled veggie kabobs and potatoes. Usually you will find grilled marinated chicken breast, turkey sausages and marinated thin steaks, sometimes Roster which is like a Bratwurst and it gets basted and sprinkled with beer while grilling.

tzatziki? the greek cucumber/yogurt sauce used on gyros? interesting.

http://pinchmysalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/tzatziki-for-web.jpg

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 01:20 PM

tzatziki? the greek cucumber/yogurt sauce used on gyros? interesting.

http://pinchmysalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/tzatziki-for-web.jpg

YES!!! it is awesome with fresh veggies. English cucumbers and tomatoes... oh how I want some right now!

just to add why; we have a lot of greek restaurants in our towns and a lot of Germans travel to Greece for vacations, so the food kind of crossed over a lot and you find this at any supermarket all the time.

sr71blackbird

01-04-2009, 03:07 PM

I went and it was really good! I had the breaded veal cutlet and it came with sauteed veggies, and salad. They make these awesome pretzel rolls! Like a huge pretzel and served piping hot and soft. We also got this sampler dip with different kinds of wursts, and it had veggies for dipping in this cheese sauce they had. They make everything there. My cousin did all the woodwork in the place, and they all knew him and gave us a lot of extras on the house.
This was on Wellwood Ave in Lindenhurst a block north of Hoffman, the owner also owns the bakery nearby

LordJezo

01-04-2009, 03:48 PM

My Christmas dinner traditionally consists of..

Rouladen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouladen), Sauerbraten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerbraten), and potato dumplings with a crouton in the middle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_dumplings#Central_European_Cuisine)

We should plan an NYC RonFez.net German food night. Anyone interested? The bar I always go to, Loreley (http://www.loreleynyc.com/indexFlash.html), is a lot of fun and has some decent food. Get a couple of Gaffel Kölschkranz's for the table and we'd be set for all the German goodness the place can offer.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5613/stangefu8.jpg

~Katja~

01-04-2009, 03:52 PM

LordJezo

01-04-2009, 03:58 PM

I am in :)
though next(this) year hopefully I will be home .

Do you make the Rouladen yourself?
Pickle, bacon and dijon mustard in it

It used to be made by my grandmother but she's too old now so my aunt has taken over. I am now going to have it passed on to me since I cook and my siblings refuse to eat anything that's not boiled chicken. We don't use the pickle (although my mother's side of the family did back when they were alive), for us it's bacon, onion, and I believe the mustard, and of course the special rouladen gravy.

The bar I linked to is a blast. They have great beer on tap and you can get it by the .5L, we usually go for Karnivale in November (missed it this year) and get dressed up in costume for it. We just went in October for beer and German food before a night of karaoke.

Now I want to go back. It's good times.

FunkyDrummer

01-04-2009, 04:18 PM

I ration them for my son. They are "illegal" here because of the small parts and choking hazzards... :(

but the bars are just as good if not better and sometimes shoprite or wegmans have them.

we usually shove them in real egg cartons between the luggage so they don't break

These are freely available at any Russian store on Brighton Beach Avenue, in Brooklyn, NY.

boosterp

01-05-2009, 03:09 AM

Do you make the Rouladen yourself?
Pickle, bacon and dijon mustard in it

*drool

Part of my family is from (and some still there) Sindelfingen, Germany of the Black Forrest area. I soooooo miss the food there. Y'all are making me want to hop on a plane.

RAAMONE

01-05-2009, 01:41 PM

NSFW!!!!

http://www.spankwire.com/articles/80810/German_Scat.html

sr71blackbird

01-05-2009, 02:12 PM

NSFW!!!!

http://www.spankwire.com/articles/80810/German_Scat.html

Dude! I am eating...yuk! :thumbdown:

Ogre

01-05-2009, 03:18 PM

When I was stationed in Baumholder we used to go to various local fests and always have this marinated fire cooked pork on a stick and a big mug of skunky fest beir and it was fuckin heaven. Little did I know Idar-Oberstien was a kaserne that was local to what I called home. I enjoyed plenty of Jagerschnitzel and French Fries with Farm Fresh Mayo...yum yum feeeeeeeeeeel the lard mmmmmm.. But nothing compared to this

Idar Oberstien Spiesbraten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idar-Oberstein)

Schwenker used to cook the meat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwenker)

Man that was some freakin food....gawd now I'm fuckin starvin'