Get ready for Oktoberfest!
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I'm thankful to the Coronavirus that it made Oktoberfest go away this year. I'm even considering a trip to Munich for that reason. I've lived in Munich for a few years, and being there during Oktoberfest was a PITA.
To be honest, I don't quite get why Americans are so fascinated by it and have all these local copies.
I do like the "Biergarten" culture in Munich. But Oktoberfest? Wouldn't go there even if you'd pay me.
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I had tickets to go in my mid-20s, along with two friends. Then one of the friend’s mother died unexpectedly so we all canceled.
For me the attraction was beer and large-breasted Bavarian chicks.
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@Klaus
I posted this as bait for you, and it worked! Yes, I fully understand why you would avoid it. I probably would, too. It's not my kind of thing. I've been to Munich, but it was in the early spring. Still, at 10am you could get large pretzels, Weisswurst, and Bier.
That's not something you normally find at 10am in Minnesoooooota.New Ulm, Minnesoooooota and LaCrosse, Wisconsin have large Oktoberfests, but I haven't been to either event. We've been to both places, and go to LaCrosse several times every year, except during COVID. Mark can tell us what goes on in the rest of his state for Oktober fests.
Is the song list even close to being correct?
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@brenda said in Get ready for Oktoberfest!:
Still, at 10am you could get large pretzels, Weisswurst, and Bier.
One of the things that was remarkable about working in Munich was that the canteen of the company I was working for (Siemens) offered beer to its employees for lunch.
Weißwurst at 10am is not so special; you may know that there's an unwritten rule in Bavaria that Weißwurst cannot be consumed after noon.
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I briefly worked for a Mexican brewery. Seriously.
They brew every Mexican beer you've heard of except Corona/Modelo.
At their canteen coke cost 50c, beer was free.
When you joined the project, you were given a 12pk of Tecate. People just kept them at the office and drank them warm over time.
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@Klaus said in Get ready for Oktoberfest!:
Weißwurst
One of Mrs. George's favorites is a Bohemian sausage called "cream" sausage. It is mild, and about ¾ inches in diameter. It's sold in a spiral. I make it by cooking in beer, then searing it in a skillet.
I wonder if Weißwurst is similar.
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@George-K said in Get ready for Oktoberfest!:
One of Mrs. George's favorites is a Bohemian sausage called "cream" sausage. It is mild, and about ¾ inches in diameter. It's sold in a spiral. I make it by cooking in beer, then searing it in a skillet.
I wonder if Weißwurst is similar.Does it taste like shit? Then you've got the real deal.
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I did a short project in Serbia, and more than once, the people from the ministry would take us out at about 11 am so we could all go look for a restaurant that was cooking a pig. We would find one, find out that it would not be done for 1-2 hours, sit down, most of the Serbians would start to drink slivowitz (sp?), a plum brandy. By the time the pig was done and eaten, it was too late to go back to work, so the day was over. LOL No surprise that not a lot got done in the country. LOL
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While visiting a piano factory for a selection by a local college, they shut down the factory in the middle of the day. They took us around back where some of the craftsmen were rolling out barbecues and kegs of beer. Everybody loaded up on sausages, drank 2-3 liters of beer, then went back to work.
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@taiwan_girl said in Get ready for Oktoberfest!:
I did a short project in Serbia, and more than once, the people from the ministry would take us out at about 11 am so we could all go look for a restaurant that was cooking a pig. We would find one, find out that it would not be done for 1-2 hours, sit down, most of the Serbians would start to drink slivowitz (sp?), a plum brandy. By the time the pig was done and eaten, it was too late to go back to work, so the day was over. LOL No surprise that not a lot got done in the country. LOL
Mmmmmm plum brandy. That sounds good.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Get ready for Oktoberfest!:
While visiting a piano factory for a selection by a local college, they shut down the factory in the middle of the day. They took us around back where some of the craftsmen were rolling out barbecues and kegs of beer. Everybody loaded up on sausages, drank 2-3 liters of beer, then went back to work.
Sausages soak up beer, right?
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Well, too much beer can certainly turn your sausage into mush.
