Monday, August 13, 2012

German mystery meat

Today we went shopping in Germany.  Okay..it's really just a 15 minute car ride but the prices on certain things are much better.  I've always felt like I could get the gist of written German - usually some semblance of an English word smashed in between some 15 other consonants.  Yah, not as easy as I was thinking it would be when doing a decent sized shopping trip.  Sure, paper towels and tissue are pretty obvious without reading the packages.  Luckily, Jean has decent German having grown up in Alsace but there were still a bunch of items that stumped us.  Bratwurst - yup, understood. Schweine - okay, sounds enough like swine to know its pork.  But Hinterkcochschinkin ? Although it could visually be classified as a meat product, we decided to stick with what we knew best.   Plus, with a curious toddler and a cranky infant in tow, it didn't give us much time to really think though the translations.  

Anyway, I picked up the sale circular to study for our next trip.  Better work on adding some words to my non existent German vocab.  It's funny how being totally lost in German got me excited to cross back into France where my conversational French now seemed markedly improved since breakfast! 

So maybe you think you could do better.  Here's a couple food items (all found in the meat section) that I'd love for you all to take a stab at:


Frühstükfleish?
Bruzzlkracher?
Grillfackeln?


Oh, if anyone is looking for sparkling wine in a can, the Lidl in Rheinau, Germany has them at a great price. Probably not a bad accompaniment for a Hinterkcochschinkin sandwich.



2 comments:

  1. Frühstükfleish >> I think it means breakfast meat, which doesn't tell you much about it ;) Probably some kind of ham ?
    Bruzzlkracher >> Burssel sprouts ?
    Grillfackeln >> Hmmm, something to grill ?
    Delphine

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  2. Great guesses. Totally right about the first one. Second one seems to be some sort of bratwurst sausage type meat and the third one was a type of kebob. Your German is impressive!

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