King Coconut Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 They've got them in Germany. Almost identical in concept, except the breakfast is guff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted October 24, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 23 minutes ago, King Coconut said: They've got them in Germany. Almost identical in concept, except the breakfast is guff. Disappointing on the breakfast front, as it seems to have been established as a major factor for most. I am also slightly ashamed to admit that I don't know what the "Full German" breakfast would consist of, or if there is such a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 15 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: am also slightly ashamed to admit that I don't know what the "Full German" breakfast would consist of, or if there is such a thing. Surely just loads of sausage. Sounds like heaven. Fnar fnar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 German food is awful, the worst in the world imo. Â Breakfast seemed to be dry brown bread, insipid slices of cheese, you know - the shit you ignore on the breakfast buffet table when travelling. Â I was also unfortunate enough to spend a week in Bavaria, where the food is terrible - boiled cabbage, awful sausages, shit wine. There's a reason nobody ever thought "I should open a German restaurant". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Oh look, Lokis trying to start another World War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 10 minutes ago, Loki said: German food is awful, the wurst in the world imo. Corrected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonworden Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: I'm making an assumption here but the garden centre in the guise that we all know them is strictly a British thing? Is there a Vietnamese equivalent @simonworden Yeah pretty much, there are plant centers here and I've seen 1 in my whole time with a cafe. In some tourist towns in the mountains they have something more akin to pleasure gardens which do sell some of their plants, have shops with random tat and usually a cafe or two but not quite the same experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Loki said: German food is awful, the worst in the world imo.  Breakfast seemed to be dry brown bread, insipid slices of cheese, you know - the shit you ignore on the breakfast buffet table when travelling.  I was also unfortunate enough to spend a week in Bavaria, where the food is terrible - boiled cabbage, awful sausages, shit wine. There's a reason nobody ever thought "I should open a German restaurant". I wouldn't want to make a sweeping generalisation, but my experience of German food when I was there wasn't much better than this. In addition, I fucking hate sauerkraut and pretzels are boring as fuck. Swedish food isn't much cop either though. Edited October 24, 2023 by gmoney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 The chain Hermann ze German was pretty good - bockwurst/currywurst hotdogs with crispy onions. Lush. Also, German-style doner kebabs are becoming increasingly popular; they do pretty good beef kebabs, which you don't get very often - it's usually lamb or chicken. But yeh - for the most part, can take or leave German cuisine. Beer's pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Loki said: I was also unfortunate enough to spend a week in Bavaria, where the food is terrible - boiled cabbage, awful sausages, shit wine. Yeah, but the Bavarian slice is absolutely the best thing you can get from Pound Bakery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 11 minutes ago, air_raid said: Yeah, but the Bavarian slice is absolutely the best thing you can get from Pound Bakery. Despite the name, I believe it's French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 42 minutes ago, gmoney said: Despite the name, I believe it's French. It's basically a mille-feuille isn't it, so certainly French in origin. Although if we get into the reality* of the product.... it's not really a Bavarian slice from Pound Bakery anyway as it has plain icing without the chocolate chevrons. * By which I mean the level of pedantry only I care about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted October 24, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Carbomb said: German-style doner kebabs Not in the chip shops I frequent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted October 24, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted October 24, 2023 I used to live a couple of doors down from a donner place, they did amazing lahmacun (?) and from what little I understood it was always beef. Good times, I'd occasionally walk to the shop just past it for what I needed and a bottle of wine, drink half the wine walking to the donner shop, get tea and finish the wine on the way back to the house to eat and a have a short nap. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonworden Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 When I was last in Germany the food was brilliant. Had an amazing sausage in a bun with a nice ice cold German beer sat atop a castle. Then we went to this weird 3 star hotel near our B&B for dinner and the food was massive (I had 2 giant schnitzels and the wife pork chops) and amazing with masses of potatoes, sauerkraut . I'd be shocked if any UKFFer could pass it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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