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October 05, 2007
Trouble with Cheese
Yesterday they killed a pig in Bavaria. Right here, in the farmyard, at six thirty in the morning.
I won’t go into the details, suffice it to say, in the morning they killed a pig and by the afternoon we had sausages, amongst other things.
Now, they know a thing or two about sausages round here, they have over 1200 types in all shapes and sizes, sausages you fry in pans, sausages you cut up and eat cold, sausages you keep in jars.
Masters of the Mighty Sausage they may be, but they’re still in Kindergarten when it comes to cheese. Go on, name a German cheese (and Bavarian Smoked doesn’t count for it is neither Bavarian nor smoked). Katrin is German and has lived most of her life in Germany. She can name French cheese, Italian cheese, English cheese, Swiss cheese and Dutch cheese, but no German cheese.
The simple fact is there is no German cheese*. Which is odd considering that they are the second biggest producers of cheese in the world. Oh, sure, they have stuff in the supermarket, under the general heading Käse, but something you can fold and tear in half, in my opinion, is not cheese.
*There are German cheeses of course, Handkäse is one of them, also known as Handkäse mit Musik, because it makes you fart, apparently.
Posted by john at October 5, 2007 04:07 PM
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Really like the images!
Posted by: monty at October 15, 2007 06:05 PM