Thursday, September 11, 2008

Things The Germans Do Differently, Part II

And now for another round of ....

Things The Germans Do Differently:

Everybody - everbody being all the Germans I've seen on the street - seems to be writing on graph paper instead of plain ole' lined paper. I have NO idea what's up with this, but apparently all Germans write on teensy little graph paper.

They make weird drinks. See, I had heard when I first got here that the Germans drink "Mineralwasser", which is basically tonic water, over plain tap water. This is nothing new to me. I like tonic water. It's like soda plus plus. But what I didn't know is that there are other drinks, like Apfelschorle, which is half apple juice and half tonic water, that you can buy in a vending machine. I was drinking it and thinking, "What the ...? Did somebody spike the juice or something? This tastes funny .... " Turns out you can -schorle a lot of things: apple jucie, orange juice, blah blah blah. It's zingy. I recommend that you in the USA try to create it. Taste the authentic German experience! Mmmm!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What do mean, you don't know schorle? You've known Catrin, me, and Curt for God knows how long and you haven't heard of Schorle yet??? Shame on us if that is true; shame on you if you are so old that you forgot already...

Raychel said...

Nope, sorry. Schorle was totally new to me. Also, there are these little chocolate crispies that I think are called Nippon or something ... I love them. They are coming back to the States with me.