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[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, ness said:

I get the itch for German every once in a while, like tonight, and I took the easy way to a similar dinner as the first one in this thread. 

Made a mushroom gravy and fried some very thin chops breaded in panko. Sides were Read’s German potato salad and Aunt Nellie’s jarred red cabbage. Pretty tasty, pretty painless too. 

Was over in Germany several years ago and found a bar that had this every night! Fine people!

[Johnsfolly]

I was in former east Germany many years ago and even though most folks didn't speak English I felt very at home. Lots of grilled meats, fine beers, and the Saturday flea market had vendors with all kinds of antlers (red stags, roebucks, fallow deer, etc.) and beer steins !  Of course it helped that I never once had to spell my last name . 

[BilletHead]

30 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

I was in former east Germany many years ago and even though most folks didn't speak English I felt very at home. Lots of grilled meats, fine beers, and the Saturday flea market had vendors with all kinds of antlers (red stags, roebucks, fallow deer, etc.) and beer steins !  Of course it helped that I never once had to spell my last name . 

            I bet you can even dance the polka John.  Did you wear lederhosen ? 

BilletHead

[rps]

meatloaf, honey mustard apple, radish, carrot, and celery salad with baked cheesy polenta patties.

 

[ness]

11 minutes ago, rps said:

meatloaf, honey mustard apple, radish, carrot, and celery salad with baked cheesy polenta patties.

 

I’d eat that! I love meatloaf, but it gets a bad rap. It’s the fruitcake of meat...I may have just coined a phrase!

[ness]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

That is a DANG spread!

What I see there is a whole family sitting down for a meal and I think that’s a very good thing.

Of course, the drapes need to be extinguished first, but that probably goes without saying. 

[ness]

55 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

I was in former east Germany many years ago and even though most folks didn't speak English I felt very at home. Lots of grilled meats, fine beers, and the Saturday flea market had vendors with all kinds of antlers (red stags, roebucks, fallow deer, etc.) and beer steins !  Of course it helped that I never once had to spell my last name . 

I’ve spent a good portion of my life spelling my last name for people. I’ve always thought a trip to Germany would be nice because they’d get it right. Or, they might just tell me I’m pronouncing it wrong. 

I’d best stay put. 

[Gavin]

Figured you as Irish not German, mostly.

 

 

[Foghorn]

Ness, had the exact thing happen in California last summer. Staying at a motel waiting to get ready for my niece's wedding and spoke with a couple at the pool. They had a foreign dialect with their English and I'm sure my "Ozarks" English threw them off. They were from Switzerland, where my paternal great grandparents came from and the lady had lived in the same town. When I pronounced my last name, she said "No, it's pronounced this way". 64 years old and pronounced it wrong all these years.   

[Johnsfolly]

11 hours ago, BilletHead said:

            I bet you can even dance the polka John.  Did you wear lederhosen ? 

BilletHead

Not much of a polka dancer but you know me I just have to show off my legs☺!