Food we ate

The food in Europe is, well, different. Mostly, the lunch is the biggest meal of the day, with something small for dinner. That is, until the Jenny and Shelly came to town.

In Germany, the Kreutzers treated us to very special meals of typical Bavarian food.Wurst salat (sausage salad), Sauerkraut and Sausage with potatoes, and Bayern Kartoffelnsalat (Bavarian Potato Salad). Breakfast was bread rolls, which they call Semmels, and this wonderfully delicious chocolate lard called Nutella. Pile on the calories, but the food in Garmisch was excellent. Frau Kreutzer is such a great cook! We also went out a few times, for Jagerschnitzel, Weiner Schnitzel, and chili..

For fast food, there was always the Doener Kebab. It's a pita stuffed with this weird meat that hangs on a skewer, and they shave it off and stuff it in your pita. Great, but you can't think about it. And, of course, sausages. In Czech, they eat sausages for breakfast (not like breakfast sausage, but like a Brat) and chase it all down with a beer and cigarette. All at 8 in the morning. Yes, Michelle the vegetarian and Jen the cheese eater did not mesh when it came to food. You should have seen the cheese they bought and ate. The Jenny carried it all over Berlin, and it smelled so bad we thought it was someone's B.O.! When they opened the package, it was all wet and moldy. How disgusting!

but then we did have homecooked meal later. As you can see from Jenny's excitement, it was fabulous!

Here is the Jenny eating her first Brat

Check out the pretzel on that! Chocolate covered, and at 10 am. in Sallzburg...

Did someone say Nutella???

Me, thinking I can figure out the Czech menu. Check out the beers!

And then the first Doener Kebab!

So not only were we EATING, but we were Drinking too......when in Rome (or Germany)

In Salzburg, at the Augustiner Monastery

In Czech, at a brewery that has been making beer since the 1400's (I think they have it down now!) and makes 13° dark beer (has to do with the specific gravity: the amount of gravity it will take to knock you down after a few of these, or something).

Berlin, with Nici

And, of course, at Oktoberfest

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