# D Is Fixing "Wiener Schnitzel" For Dinner!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 29, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366 "2012-04-29T22:36:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/1 "2012-04-29T22:36:02Z")
The smell’s about to make me come in my britches, y’all!
Not only is she cooking the 'Schnitzel, but Bratkartoffeln and Sauerkraut!
This woman, this woman.
This wonderful woman.🙂
Q
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### Author:  [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/2 "2012-04-29T22:38:12Z")
Mmmmmm! My hubby’s family is Austrian and we get wiener schnitzel a few time a year. Soooo good. Do you put lemon on it?
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/3 "2012-04-29T22:55:28Z")
Hmmmmm… my back fence neighbor has a weiner dog named “schnitzel.” Should I be suspicious? 😛
All kiddin’ aside, ::drool:: **Quasi** wiener schnitzel is just, well, the schnitzel!
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/4 "2012-04-29T23:08:23Z")
I’m eatin’ as I write, **swampbear**! It makes me feel like I’m sitting down to dinner with my friends.
**EmAnJ** , no I don’t put lemon on the meat. Don’t put lemon on anything, really and I don’t know why I don’t cover up the taste of any kind of meat with a sauce of any kind. Can’t say for certain, but growing up poor in East Germany, I think we were just grateful to have any kind of meat at _all_ to eat, and when we had pork (the cheapest of any kind of meat in those days) we were taught to eat everything but the oink.
Quasi
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/5 "2012-04-29T23:12:23Z")
Alas, it’s hard to find veal here. I could go to a butcher, I suppose. We can get so-called Wienerschnitzel at a couple of restaurants… but they use pork. The SO refuses to eat chicken-fried pork chops when she wants _Wienerschnitzel!_
I like my Wienerschnitzel with anchovy on top.
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/6 "2012-04-29T23:24:39Z")
We couldn’t afford veal, **John** , but it was fine. During the time I lived with my Oma, my uncles and aunts, I learned how important it was to eat _all_ of what we had. The marrow from the bones was especially important.
I wouldn’t trade those days for anything, and I am very grateful I was allowed to have that experience.
Bill
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/7 "2012-04-29T23:28:15Z")
Yep, veal is pricey. That’s why I haven’t ben to the butcher’s. i might splurge one day, though. (Hm… Monday is payday.) I went to the supermarket and asked where the veal was once. ‘We don’t have any.’ I asked what day it should be in. ‘No, we don’t carry it. Not much call for it.’
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/8 "2012-04-29T23:59:44Z")
From what I know about you, my friend, you are an awesome cook (along with all your other talents). If it ever works out, **D** and I would love to have you and the more lovely side of you (;)) visit us and put you to work! 😉
Before I take heat for inviting my pal to visit and having him cook for us, please be assured that I liken this to asking a very renowned celebrity for an autgraph.
Q
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/9 "2012-04-30T08:33:26Z")
I have a schnitzel story to tell!
Many years ago (probably about 25 if the truth be told), I found some genuine veal cutlets at the butchery, and at an exorbitant price too I might add. But I had a bit of spare money that week and decided to splurge on 500gm of milk-fed veal to make genuine schnitzels for the family for dinner.
So I beat up the egg, placed the breadcrumbs in a bowl…dipped and crumbed and put them into the frying pan to cook. When they were golden brown, I served them up with rosti and red cabbage. Delish…?
Well, no as it turned out: there was a weird taste to the schnitzels. They tasted of **PEPPERMINT** 😕
After much investigation, it turned out that my little daughter had been playing around in the pantry and had spilled a bottle of peppermint-essence into the bag of breadcrumbs a few days earlier. I didn’t notice when I was preparing the crumbs, but certainly **did** notice when I took my first expectant bite of some beefy-heaven. _Goddamit_, I spent a small fortune on that meat, and it was totally ruined. ☹
If any of you are thinking of doing some culinary experimentation, let me forewarn you that pepperminty-meat doesn’t work, OK? 😃
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/10 "2012-04-30T10:40:18Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> If it ever works out, **D** and I would love to have you and the more lovely side of you (;)) visit us and put you to work! ;)Q
It occurs to me that the above may need a bit more detail lest I be misunderstood.
Ever heard the phrase “your better half” used? It is used in referring to one’s “significant other” and is meant as a compliment and tribute to the “other half” of the relationship. I hope that clears up any doubt (s), if there were any.😉
Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me. I have some fantastic friends!
Quasi
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### Author:  [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/11 "2012-04-30T10:44:56Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#):
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> If it ever works out, **D** and I would love to have you and the more lovely side of you (;)) visit us and put you to work! ;)Q
It occurs to me that the above may need a bit more detail lest I be misunderstood.
Ever heard the phrase “your better half” used? It is used in referring to one’s “significant other” and is meant as a compliment and tribute to the “other half” of the relationship. I hope that clears up any doubt (s), if there were any.😉
Thanks everyone for hanging in there with me. I have some fantastic friends!
Quasi
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### Author:  [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/12 "2012-04-30T14:12:52Z")
Now living in “Wien” we are used to having “Wienerschnitzel” made of anything from Rind-, Huhner-, Puten-, und Schweinfeisch.
🙂
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/13 "2012-04-30T14:35:04Z")
Do you live in SoCal? Then you can go out and buy dinner from “Der Weinerschnitzel”
Just thinking about those hotdogs makes me hungry!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-is-fixing-wiener-schnitzel-for-dinner/620366/14 "2012-05-02T01:59:23Z")
They dropped the (incorrect) ‘der’ a couple of decades ago. And they don’t serve Wienerschnitzel. But I love the chili cheese dogs.
Checked out the veal cutlets at the butcher’s today. A dime under $23/pound. :eek: Still planning on getting some for Saturday. Just not as much as I’d like.