This morning after breakfast we went for a walk. The weather was windy and cool but very pleasant.
We have been surprised how few people speak English in the places we have been the last few nights. Google translate is awesome. You just take a picture of the German you want to translate and it instantly gives you the translation in English.
After our walk we drove southeast to a small town not too far from Berlin. Oktoberfest is going on in Berlin right now so rooms there were scarce and expensive.
For dinner we drove to a nearby town, Strausberg and had dinner in a restaurant built in an old train station. So far in Germany all our meals have been in tourist areas. Tonight Gasthof Strausberg Nord where we ate felt very authentic and local. The first page of the menu was all horse meat. It’s interesting how our cultural prejudices make us react to foods. We ordered one of the horse meat dishes and a fish called Zander. They were both delicious.
Another cultural thing is serving lard as a spread for bread. It is also very good.
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Is it obvious that the area was East Germany or are the Soviet-era buildings pretty much replaced? Horse meat! You are right that what we consider okay to eat is truly a normative value. It was shocking to see deer being raised alongside cattle and sheep in New Zealand and I won’t even try to explain how people in the US feel about eating dogs and cats. 🐶🐕🐩🐈🐈⬛
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Everything looks very modern and well kept. Even the few houses we have seen with thatched roofs look recently thatched.
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very interesting information on the meat! You are correct on my initial reaction to the horse meat! I felt the same about lard! Being a dietitian working with patients and heart disease, it’s hard to think of lard as a staple but they have learned to use all that is given to them!!
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I always assumed that lard has higher saturated fat than butter. I just Googled it and actually butter has higher saturated fat!!
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