100 foods to eat before you die

[nisaba]

A facebook app for foodies, stolen from facebook because I don't trust any apps there and there's no space for rambling. And where's the fun in that?

100 foods to eat before you die, compiled by someone on the internet. Foods I've tried in bold:

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[zoo_music_girl]

Lox is smoked salmon.

Spaetzle is basically southern German macaroni cheese. I've only had our UK canteen's version of it so far, which wasn't much different from our macaroni cheese. (A German at the table said it looked authentic enough but he didn't taste it.) I am on a promise to be cooked proper Spaetzle by a southern German some time soon.

And you haven't had currywurst either? We should have had a ladies weekend in Berlin!

[nisaba]

Hmm ok, so I've had loz, but I wouldn't have it again as I didn't like it!

I think I'm afraid of German macaroni and cheese. German food isn't known for being light and fluffy... I bet it's super tasty though.

I LOVE Berlin, I would have gone there like a shot, but if I remember right one of our party had a pathological hatred of Germany (that, I really should add, had nothing to do with any wars or any of the actual people. Just some bad travelling luck). I believe she's cured now, but a bit late for a ladies weekend! I was trying to remember if I had currywurst, I've had a few other wursts, but I figured I should leave it off so I have an excuse to try it again ;)

[zoo_music_girl]

I was trying to remember why we never did Berlin, it seems such an obvious place for us to have gone!

German food isn't light and fluffy but it's not stodgy either, not when it's good food anyway. I will report back when I have Spaetzle. :)

Did you know that Germany has more Michelin stars than anywhere except Japan and France? (A few of us got into an argument about British versus German food once, and we Brits rather unexpectedly lost badly!)

[nisaba]

I had no idea Germany was such a gastro country. I mean, I've always eaten well there, but Michelin stars are a cut (or two...) above a bratwurst covered in cheese.

[zoo_music_girl]

Yeah, who knew! We were surprised!

The really odd thing is, very few of the Michelin starred restaurants are in the big cities, they're mostly in out of the way places.

[steer]

Funnily enough I compared Spaetzle to macaroni cheese below... more for the "hearty and comforting" aspect. I've only had it a couple of times and both in the UK but Caron said it was fairly authentic and she should know.

[zoo_music_girl]

Well, it's mostly cheese and pasta, it's an obvious comparison. :)

[zoo_music_girl]

BTW, where did you have it? Katzenjammer?

[steer]

Once at Katenjammer and once a small amount of Caron's helping from the 1907 Restaurant at Brooklands Hotel where we were this weekend.

I see what you mean that it's something like pasta with cheese hence macaroni and cheese is an obvious comparison but... well, it's definitely more like macaroni and whatever-macaroni-and-cheese cheese is than it is like (say) orecchiette and parmesan. It's got a comforting feel to it rather than a "this is posh nosh" feel to it.

[zoo_music_girl]

Ah, gotcha. Yes, I see exactly what you mean. That's something I like about German food, it is generally comforting.