In Germany!

Not really much to say, except that germany is awesome! Anything they have here (except keyboards) is 10x better than in the states… even the american fast food… And i wanted to let you know that I will have internet access, etc. to read the boards…

How is the American fast food different from ours?

Be sure to sample some Germans and report back on how they taste. :wink:

Viel Spass!

Try the bakeries, try the bars, try the department store clothing sections…(not necessarily in that order).

Well, the super secret patented Big Mac sauce seems to be missing from Canadian Big Macs at least. And Germany is the only country where the delicious Mcrib is a standard feature on the Mcdonald’s menu.

Don’t forget we don’t have mcBeer in the US…<grin>

Honestly, being an avid chef, I adore shopping in Germany. In the US, we have 30 manufacturers making about 10 different products, in Germany they have 10 manufacturers making 30 products…if I want to buy 200 gms of ground meat, I can…or a single portion of poultry or meat, incredible selections of all sorts of nifty products=)

You just haven’t had a morning snack until you have had weisswurst and pretzels with sweet mustard where the sausage was made fresh less than an hour previous…

And if you bring back a german keyboard, and set mrAru’s computer up with it without telling him, he wakes up and does emails for about half an hour before he notices anything <evil grin>

Actually, try the bakeries and the bars and the supermarkets in the department stores. This depends on where you actually are, of course. Where are you? (It’s a fairly big sized country)

I hear at Burger King, they call the Quarter Pounder a “Royale With Cheese.”
It’s the little things…

Do a few shots of Apfelkorn for me… and for yourself, too.

You screwed up, that’s at Mcdonald’s (Travolta didn’t go to Burger King, remember). And yeah, that’s true, Tarantino didn’t make it up.

I don’t mean to hijack, but Canadian Big Macs do have “secret sauce” on them, it’s basically Thousand Islands salad dressing. Is the US “secret sauce” different?

I’m pretty sure the Secret Sauce here in the US is Thousand Island.

I cannot remember, it’s been a while since I had a Big Mac in the USA. In Germany the secret Big Mac sauce tastes different (better to me, but I grew up on that stuff) than in Canada at least.
I can’t tell you what’s in it though, after all, it isn’t called “secret” for nothing :wink:

Bring me back a Weizen! :smiley:

Just kidding. Enjoy yourself!

Quasi der Modem

SHIT! You are correct.

Haven’t been to a fast food joint in a while, forget who has what.

What’s different? It tastes better, and you get it faster… But I’m in berlin now, was in Munich. Oh… Region of Berlin? Steglitz(-Zahlendorf)… if anyone wants to visit me, I’m in Gardeschützenweg.

I have tried the bars and the clothing, and the bakeries (Yum, delicious… the clothes too :stuck_out_tongue: ) The deli counters or whatever you want to call them, no… my host mom does all of the real shopping lol.

Way to kill the thread, me! :smack:

Color me eifersucht

Used to go to Steglitz a lot to visit a friend…I lived in the Charlottenburg area.
Be sure to go to the Zoo and the Aquarium…also the museums on the island in what used to be East Berlin are pretty cool…also take one of the boat rides through the canals and onto the lakes. You have to go to KaDeWe while you are there, and don’t miss the top two floors of the place (food, glorious food). And be sure to try a curry-wurst (your host mom will know where the good one’s are) and a boulette. Put mayo on your fries. Ride a bike through Tiergarten or any of the hundreds of parks. That (indoor) water park, Blub, used to be sorta fun, but that was a long time ago so don’t know if it is still worth visiting.