yeah: plus "wirsing"

sauerkraut and schweinsbraten? no way! rotkraut and kartoffelknödel obviously!

intra-german-schweinsbraten-culture-wars

roast pork?

yep

i think i'dprefer the potato dumplings to the sauerkraut

*goes for boiled potatoes today*

so what's wirsing?

it's savoy cabbage

and even though andreas doesn't like it, it's fundamental to many german regional cuisines

wirsing + boiled potatoes? pretty nice, and it makes the whole dish not even unhealthy

i've used it once in a coleslaw. never seen it again at the store and never had it cooked.

what does traditionally go with schweinsbraten in berlin?

*is in the kitchen now*

i've never been able to develop a taste for either variant of sauerkraut.

that kinda food.

the rest of it sounds good.

clemenstimpler ist die philosophische Küchenchef

brillant!

i can use google with the best of them

a question for the central europeans in the audience--are any of you old enough to remember the berlin wall? did you ever see it intact?

i even remember visiting east-berlin as a kid in the late 70s - it took two hours to examine our car - a somewht grueling experience

and they had strange-tasting lemonade *g*

2 hours, yikes.

they used a mirror to examine the car underneath and a rod to search for cavities

but still, many people in the world think that it was impossible for westerners to visit east berlin...it wasn't just veeeeeeery dificult

I'm too young, I can remember the whole 1989 developments from the TV and because my german mom was so excited about it all

recently talked to a colleague in the states who traveled years ago for four months through the GDR in order to enhance his german

disturbing how?

how old were you?