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I spent a month in Germany last year. Turns out the most authentic German food is currywurst and middle eastern food lol.
But maybe that's just in Berlin. They probably have good potato based dishes in Bavaria.
If you spent your month in Berlin, you didn't visit Germany. Common mistake.
Lol.
It's like saying you didn't visit the US because you only went to NYC, but not Texas.
Only that Berlin is probably the "least German" place to go, while NY is not.
But that's not what OP said. OP Made a stupid claim about how only visiting Berlin means one hasn't really visited Germany.
To your point, my analogy works quite well - If you go to NYC expecting to find the stereotype of cowboys, massive steaks, and barbeque, you'll be disappointed, because that shit is in Texas.
It's all relative to how one defines a country's culture and the lens it creates. Just because someone has myopic expectations does not mean that NYC is less American than anywhere else in the US. The same holds true for Berlin and the rest of Germany.
I think you're missing the point. NYC doesn't have cowboys or anything but it's representative of other aspects of American culture.
Berlin is in fact the least German town in Germany. It has its own kind of culture that is vastly different from the rest.
Berlin is just as German as NYC is American, both have big city cultures that don't really fit with life outside them.
Lived in NY for a while (manhattan) and travelled to a lot of other states. The comparison rings true for me, NY has it's own culture for sure.
No, I fully understand the point. By "German" you mean Fachwerkhäuser, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen and Dirndls, Bier Steins and Weißwurst, and you're correct, these cultural symbols are not characteristic of Berlin - these are Bavarian. There is so much more to German culture than Bavaria though, despite what the Bavarians think.
Fachwerkhäuser are not Bavarian, it's just that Bavaria has many old townships that kept them intact. You see them all over Germany tho.
No, I don't.
I am German, so I know what German culture is I guess.
It's literally the capital of your country and the seat of your government. How that "isn't Germany" is beyond me.
Because you don't know anything about German culture apparently.
Berlin is an extreme cultural outlier and thus not somewhere you should go to experience German culture in general.
How you don't understand despite me trying to explain it to you multiple times is beyond me
Nah you are close. We eat "Döner" (a turkish dish modified for Germany, basically a german invention) curry wurst and "Wiener Schnitzel" with french fires.
We drink beer all over the country but about every 50 km you have a different kind of beer that is prefered and don't you dare to say a different beer is better.
Also the glasses in which the beer is drunken grows from north to south.
The Döner is a German food though, it was invented in Berlin.
When I was a kid it was more common to have German restaurants and Imbiss. But they can't compete in price and speed with cheaper alternatives in the cities. That's why they were gradually replaced. When you want to eat some more traditional German cuisine, you'd have to go to smaller towns or a hotel restaurant.
There is no german fast food except curry Wurst in Berlin. That doesnt mean there is no good german food. Just in Berlin there are viewer Restaurants selling german food than asian/ middle East and italian food and there is a lot of fast food. I dont know why there are so few German restaurants. In Munich you find more of them...
I feel that's kinda the point of Berlin though, its culture is formed by the patchwork of nationalities that migrates there. Much like the UK with its Indian food
Yeah I found it so weird how much international food there was in Berlin. I had to go looking for more traditional dishes.
Also, graffiti..... graffiti, everywhere.
Well...It's a captital alright.
Kind og expected to assume there will be a more international audience in comparison to the country side.
In Munich you'll find more Bavarian restaurants.
Uhhhh? Doner kebab?
Never mind that was dumb. Wasn't reading correct
Bavaria is probably the most "German" german region. That's where all the lederhosen stereotypes come from.
Basically it's the Texas of Germany. Old school, religious, and conservative.
Edit: in the very rural parts, they even have their own dialect that to some Germans is almost completely unintelligible. I realized this when I took German language classes in high school in the USA and what they were having me learn was very much NOT the way my Bavarian mother spoke to me. It felt kind of irritating when they told me I was pronouncing things wrong and my grammar was wrong when I fuckin' lived there as a child and spoke it fluently.