Comments on: A modest proposal

By: crackin_up

crackin_up — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:57:22 +0000

YES!!! Finally somebody who has the same fine tuned taste buds - German Nutella REALLY DOES taste different than the American (in fact the American tastes like the cheap remakes “Nudossi” or “Nusspli” from Aldi or Lidl. Thank you so much for mentioning that, nobody ever wanted to believe me!

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:49:47 +0000

I think the very last one is the best! (No I don’t think it was Number 12 but the last paragraph.) I can whole heartily agree that we can learn from each other.
I personally would agree upon more political parties in America… I like to share a good laugh with my American friends about the way political incompetence is multiplied by the factor 4.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:28:26 +0000

…and German swimming pools need to adopt lap swimming in circles! It is amazing to me that the German roads are so organized yet swimming laps in their pools is total chaos!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:02:13 +0000

“Hallo zusammen,
auch wenn ich einiges recht lustig finde auf dieser Seite, so muss ich doch sagen, einiges geht an der Zeit vorbei !!!
Die Zeiten von Kuren und Erholungen auf Kosten der Krankenkassen sind schon seit Jahren vorbei. Unbezahlte Ueberstunden in vielen Firmen sind die Regel und wochenlange Krankmeldungen sind schon lange nicht mehr Gang und Gebe.
Ihr lieben Leuts’ .. das war vielleicht mal so in Deutschland. Auch wir Deutsche reissen und den Hintern auf um unseren Job zu behalten und Alleinerziehende haben auch oft einen zweiten Job.
Und schon mal was von Harz 4 gehoert?
Viele Gruesse
Martina”

naja immer noch ist es doch so, dass zB diabetiker für eine zweitägige ernährungsschulung nach zypern eingeladen werden (auf kosten der solidargemeinschaft, versteht sich), brillen aber nicht gestellt werden

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:47:35 +0000

After living two years in Germany, I realize that not only do Germans have superior walls, they have superior windows - open, slant or shut. Genius! They should be installed on every American house (I do, however, happen to like our screens….)

(sorry this is late - I just discovered this wonderful blog!)

By: Martina

Martina — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:06:32 +0000

Hallo zusammen,
auch wenn ich einiges recht lustig finde auf dieser Seite, so muss ich doch sagen, einiges geht an der Zeit vorbei !!!
Die Zeiten von Kuren und Erholungen auf Kosten der Krankenkassen sind schon seit Jahren vorbei. Unbezahlte Ueberstunden in vielen Firmen sind die Regel und wochenlange Krankmeldungen sind schon lange nicht mehr Gang und Gebe.
Ihr lieben Leuts’ .. das war vielleicht mal so in Deutschland. Auch wir Deutsche reissen und den Hintern auf um unseren Job zu behalten und Alleinerziehende haben auch oft einen zweiten Job.
Und schon mal was von Harz 4 gehoert?
Viele Gruesse
Martina

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:20:46 +0000

You complain about TAN ? Wait until you have to cope with i-TAN !

I wonder that you overlooked the most glaring deficiency in Germany: we clearly need more air-conditioning! Public transport needs air conditioning, it’s unbearable in summer and coming back from the states feels like being thrown back to the stone age when it comes to air conditioning or lack thereof.

By: Ulrich

Ulrich — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:07:32 +0000

Real bread: Over my 30+years of living in the US, I have seen the bread situation dramatically improve, at least as larger cities are concerned (I cannot speak for rural areas). Pittsburgh, where I worked for 21 years, now has a (German-run) bakery that delivers excellent bread all over the city (it also serves the better restaurants that do not bake their own bread). Here in CT, where I live now, even supermarkets have bread that, even if it isn’t crusty enough when you buy it, will get so if you bake it again in a 150 C oven for a few minutes. My brother’s family visited us a few weeks ago, and they found that “die frischen Broetchen” we obtained that way every morning were better (knuspriger) than those they buy every morning at their local bakery in Cologne. So, with a little creativity, one can do OK here in many places when it comes to “real” bread.

The variety remain limited, though; e.g. the densely-textured “Kastenbrot” that I like with certain toppings is almost impossible to find (our supermarket has a German import, but it doesn’t survive transport and packaging that well). Pumpernickel, as we know it, can also be found only as import–what’s called “pumpernickel” here is pretty awful or, at least, has little to do with the German version.

By: Sabine

Sabine — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:22:27 +0000

My parents advised me that real bread is available in the US, apparently somewhere south of Seattle near Amish country where a lot of germans settled (possibly near Bismarck ?). In this area real beer, sausages and Leberkaese are also available.

Regarding Nutella, I never realized that germany had a different recipe. It just never occurred to me. My daughter is not a big fan of Hazelnuts and she used to eat Nutella in germany, but didn’t like it once we got back to the UK. I will have to import Nutella from germany (or stick to buying Missisippi Mud Pie spread, lol)

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