Talk:German cuisine

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1 Style Query
2 Yet another style question
3 More
4 Currywurst
5 Meat section
6 Side dishes
7 Aalsuppe
8 Jükääg
9 Rote Grütze
10 Drinks
11 Bread section
12 Dampfnudel
13 Palatinate

[edit] Style Query

This page has a lot of instances of the English name of a region followed by the German version. I've tried to make it more consistent throughout the page; my chosen style was to put the German version in italics and parentheses. Is there a more correct way to do it? I couldn't find anything in the Manual of Style. Lancevortex 12:12, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Yet another style question

No offense to anyone, but the article reads a bit like it was hacked together by a bunch of german countryboys (und das mein ich jetzt gar nich böse...bin ja selber einer :). I'll try to convert the whole thing into a more readable english in the next couple of hours... Ferkelparade 09:57, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rewritten and reformatted...I hope it's better now :p Ferkelparade 21:16, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

Well done for that FP, it certainly does look better, but I'm not sure why you've used <br />s instead of paragraphs — they look odd and are semantically incorrect. If a piece of text is worthy of being a separate paragraph then it should be so, if not then it should just be another sentence like any other. Hope I don't sound too much like a schoolteacher! --Lancevortex 11:34, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, I guess those old html habits are hard to break :) Ferkelparade 12:01, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] More

Some more to put in: Zwiebelkuchen, Federweißer, Apfelsaftschorle, Most, Kartoffelkuchen, Schweinshaxe, Broiler, Labskaus. Sorry, my english is not good enough to explain this things :-) . Grettings 217.233.68.5

Yes, we can see this! (Sorry, couldn't resist ...)

[edit] Currywurst

...I've never seen a Currywurst made with "boiled" sausage (whatever that is...Bockwurst?), and I've lived in Northern Germany for 13 years. Any comments before I change that? --Stephan Schulz 15:27, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meat section

Ok, anyone else notice that the "Meats" section is basically about the sausages of Thueringen? and POV isn't exactly neutral - "the best sausages are from Thuringa" or whatever that was. how about something more like "Central Germany, and especially the area of Thuringa, has a reputation for some of the best sausages" or something along those lines. and i know there are more meat dishes than just sausage (though come to think of it, nothing i can think of that's distinctly german: Hamburger is an american invention, though i suppose the Frikadelle counts... Koenigsberger Klopse? Schaschlik and Gulasch aren't originally German either). Any thoughts on the issue? YggdrasilRoot 21:09, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

I tend to agree, the paragraph on sausages was pretty POV and going into way too much detail. I cleaned up the paragraph - I personally think it's totally sufficient to describe the basic meat-eating habits in that paragraph and list individual dishes in the "specialties" section below. -- Ferkelparade π 23:05, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Side dishes

The side dishes section mentions that the popularity of potatoes is waning. I lived in Bavaria from Feb 2002-Mar 2005 and saw no sign of this. Potatoes as a side dish was almost impossible to escape. Anthopos 15:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Waning as "from 99% to 80%" or so...and that's for simple boiled potatos (Warning: Numbers made up on the spot). Potatos are still popular. But rice and pasta are making inroads. --Stephan Schulz 21:18, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aalsuppe

It´s true that "Aal" means eel, but the origin of "Aal" in this context is from a dialect, in which "Aal" means "alles/everything".

[edit] Jükääg

I`m a native from Hamburg and have never heard of "Jükääg". I tried to find something about it by google, but in my opinion there isn`t something like this... (Sorry for my english) Moritz

Same here.

[edit] Rote Grütze

I changed the description of the dish from a "jelly" to a "pudding". Even though grütze translates roughly as grits, which might make some think it was a jelly, I've found descriptions of it in a German menu translator and a cookbook which both refer to it as a pudding, and the cooking process seems to reflect that. As for the related dishes, I assumed the same applied. LindeeK 09:31, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Drinks

 Spezi is a soft drink made with cola and lemonade. In Southern Germany and Austria, Spezi a generic term for a mixture of cola and Fanta (or a similar orange soft drink). In some regions (Emsland) spezi is a mixture of cola and schnaps.

Here in Hamburg a Spezi is just a mixture of Coke and Fanta as well. And I think that applies to most Germans.

 Schnaps is a fine german spirit distilled from apples and pears ("Obstler"), plums, cherries, or "Mirabellen".

Schnaps actually is the general term for distilled beverages with at least 15 % alcohol by volume (according to German wikipedia).

[edit] Bread section

On Jan, 13. additional content was added stating, that there are about 6,000 types of bread. This contradicts the information given some lines above: "The country boasts at least 300 different types of bread, ...". 6,000 types seems exaggerated to me. --Zinnmann 09:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)