Comments on: Inviting Writing: The Best Bratwurst http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/08/inviting-writing-the-best-bratwurst/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Fri, 24 May 2013 17:26:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Cristie http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/08/inviting-writing-the-best-bratwurst/comment-page-1/#comment-2794 Cristie Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:08:36 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=6297#comment-2794 So cool that German bratwurst was one of your most memorable meals. I hope you're enjoying them under better conditions these days. I'm live in Wisconsin and we have enough Germans around who make marvelous bratwursts so I never have to travel to get great ones. Am told by several people that the Nurnberger sausages I get here http://ow.ly/2odO0 are just like those in Germany. I'll have to take their word for it for now. So cool that German bratwurst was one of your most memorable meals. I hope you’re enjoying them under better conditions these days. I’m live in Wisconsin and we have enough Germans around who make marvelous bratwursts so I never have to travel to get great ones. Am told by several people that the Nurnberger sausages I get here http://ow.ly/2odO0 are just like those in Germany. I’ll have to take their word for it for now.

]]> By: Lahle Wolfe http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/08/inviting-writing-the-best-bratwurst/comment-page-1/#comment-2720 Lahle Wolfe Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:52:08 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=6297#comment-2720 You lived out just about every teenager's dream - backpacking across Europe; carefree, hitching rides, and smoking (when it was still considered cool.) I could practically feel your hunger and taste the bratwurst. I could even imagine how good it must have felt to sit and watch traffic and just observe all the new sites and sounds as you filled your belly. Kind of makes me feel like a trip to Europe can never come too late in life - although at my age, I would have to travel a little less on the "roughing it" side. Now that I have my own teenagers, that is. You lived out just about every teenager’s dream – backpacking across Europe; carefree, hitching rides, and smoking (when it was still considered cool.)

I could practically feel your hunger and taste the bratwurst. I could even imagine how good it must have felt to sit and watch traffic and just observe all the new sites and sounds as you filled your belly.

Kind of makes me feel like a trip to Europe can never come too late in life – although at my age, I would have to travel a little less on the “roughing it” side. Now that I have my own teenagers, that is.

]]> By: JSWEEKS http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2010/08/inviting-writing-the-best-bratwurst/comment-page-1/#comment-2716 JSWEEKS Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:53:44 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=6297#comment-2716 I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE IN JENA, EAST GERMANY A SHORT TIME AFER THE WALL CAME DOWN IN 1989. THERE WAS A MARKET IN THE SQUARE OUTSIDE OF OUR HOTEL. I WANDERED AROUND LOOKING AT THE ODD ASSORTMENT OF GOODS BROUGHT IN TO SELL; OLD HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, PERSONAL BELONGINGS, JEWELRY, CLOTHES, ETC. AND A FEW VIETNAM REFUGEES DISPLAYING TRINKETS, TOOTHPASTE, CIGARETS, PLASTIC JUNK. NOTHING TO COMPARE TO THE FABULOUS MARKETS IN THE REST OF EUROPE AT THAT TIME. SUDDENLY I CAUGHT THE AROMA OF A KIOSK SELLING SAUSAGES. THEY WERE AS WONDERFUL AS YOUR WRITER CLAIMED AND NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY COMES CLOSE TO REAL GEMAN SAUSAGES. I HAD A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE IN JENA, EAST GERMANY A SHORT TIME AFER THE WALL CAME DOWN IN 1989. THERE WAS A MARKET IN THE SQUARE OUTSIDE OF OUR HOTEL. I WANDERED AROUND LOOKING AT THE ODD ASSORTMENT OF GOODS BROUGHT IN TO SELL; OLD HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, PERSONAL BELONGINGS, JEWELRY, CLOTHES, ETC. AND A FEW VIETNAM REFUGEES DISPLAYING TRINKETS, TOOTHPASTE, CIGARETS, PLASTIC JUNK. NOTHING TO COMPARE TO THE FABULOUS MARKETS IN THE REST OF EUROPE AT THAT TIME. SUDDENLY I CAUGHT THE AROMA OF A KIOSK SELLING SAUSAGES. THEY WERE AS WONDERFUL AS YOUR WRITER CLAIMED AND NOTHING IN THIS COUNTRY COMES CLOSE TO REAL GEMAN SAUSAGES.

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