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Originally Posted by Mitzis Mom That's right! There are even laws that a glass has to be filled to the little line you always find on top of a bar or restaurant glass (Eichstrich). If it's not you just tell the waiter... that's also the reason why at the Oktoberfest in Munich the beer steins are not beer steins anymore but beer glasses In a stein, which is made from clay, you can't see if there is enough beer in it b/c of the foam. Oh yes, and the foam... Germans LOVE beer with foam and when they get it without they call it horse pee...
It's also true that tea and coffee are much better... my father used to call the American coffee "little flower coffee" (Bluemchenkaffee) b/c on the old fashioned china cups there are little flowers on the bottom and when you can see the little flower through the coffee... well, let's say it's just brown water then... |
lol about coffee, we get several times a yr a care packet from Fam. with coffee and stuff we realy miss. Also we got a couple of German stores where we go and spend too much money