Does anyone know about the food in Germany or Turkey?

Question

I have a paper for english and i need other people's opinions.

Answer 1

This is a native German writing. The cuisine depends extremely on the region, so when you go into the north, you will find something else than in the south, or east, or west. I am from the northwest, where Friesentee (black tee from India) is drunken instead of coffee.

Don't think Bavaria is culturely a part of Germany. It is not!!! The fact that they joined the federal republic is only a political fact, it was never cultural. Until this day we Northeners do not accept them as Germans, and they call all non-Bavarians bad names.

In the southwest you will find pasta-like dishes (Spaetzle, means little sparrows, eggnoodles scraped from a wooden board into boiling water) and other dough-based treasures. Steamed noodles are not pasta, they are yeast-dough cakes baked in steam.

The breakfast in Germany is never a warm meal, it always is a local roll (they are different in every region, and every region has their own name for it) with butter, an it is your choice what you put on them. Cheese, marmalade, jam, gelee, lunchmeat (cold cuts), whatever you want.

The only warm meal is served/eaten in the midday, it is called midday eat (Mittagessen).

In the evening you will have the evening bread (Abendbrot), and traditionally that is bread with margarine and either cheese on it, or smear-sausage (unknown in America), or cold cuts (like lunch meat).
When people start nowadays to eat warm meals in the evening, that is only due to cultural exchange with other cultures, and TV of course. You see nowadays what other people do, and then it is easy to copy that.

But originally (traditionaly) the only warm (cooked) meal was the Mittagessen (midday eat), and the name of the Abendbrot (evening bread) gave already away what the meal was about.

Oh, and Fruehstueck literally means "early piece", haha.

I wonder where the english word "breakfast" came originally from? But that would be another question...

Answer 2

Mmm, I love German food. In the Bavarian region, I found that Germans use a lot of meat and potatoes in their dishes. In the cities and more culturally diverse towns/cities, you find a lot of influence from other cultures. For example, when I was in Heidelberg, I not only found the traditional meat & potatoe dishes, but also Greek food and French food with a German twist.

A German breakfast usually consists of fresh bread/rolls and lunch meats/cold cuts, cheeses and marmalades to put on the bread. Mmmm!

Answer 3

Cay is Turkish tea...it's a black tea similar to in the states, but brewed differently with a more fresh and palatable taste (while remaining much stronger in flavor than an american tea.)

Fassoulakia is a common vegetarian side dish/entree over there...it's green beans cooked with sauteed onion and garlic and then with some diced tomatoes and a tiny bit of tomato paste, salt, and some fresh mint leaves.

They have nannies over there for most children...it's an easy luxury to afford in Turkey, but the nannies most of the time aren't nice.

They have "flea market" type setups for olives!!!!! billions of olives in different bins, organized by the type of olive...they tend to let little fingers roam in those markets ^_^ (I loved olives at the age of 3-4, and still do...21 yrs later!)

"Bazuk" (bah-zook) means "broke"...the elevators in most buildings over there are horrible, so a guy in the apt building we lived in tried to fix the elevator, and was stuck in the elevator shaft for over a week.

Baklava is wonderful....
Greece is a ferry ride away...and that's where people typically go for Cay, although it is found in turkey as well.

The stone walls for the sea, are about 3 ft high (from the walkway), and then drop off after about a foot and a half width, the water level is about 6-10 ft below the top of the 3 ft wall...my dad used to joke and hold me over it...scared the crud out of me!!

The use of public toilets.....this is a fun topic!
I had to pee in a hole in the ground that many women just walked up to. men couldn't see, but it was a very public hole to be shared for the women. it was pretty scary and disgusting, even to me at the age of 3!

Got my ears pierced in Turkey...highly not recommended for any typical person to do, but I was 4 at the time, so I didn't know any better.

I went to one of my nanny's houses...it was very gypsy like...dark reds, mauves, purples, browns, not very bright inside, but it *was* very beautiful!
They put tapestries on the walls (like rugs for the walls)
They use tarot cards and are very into divination, although at that age, I was clueless on what it all was.
Like gypsies that don't move...but not in a yucky way...very beautiful ^_^

I'd go back again if given the chance!
Good luck on your report!

Answer 4

kebabs are exremely popular in Turkey(they're pretty good too :)). They also have pide(not sure if that's how you spell it) which is basically Turkish pizza. Cold appetizers are also pretty popular in Turkey though I can't think of any specific names. Drink wise, Aryans( a yogurht drink) are very popular. Hope that helps

Answer 5

Manti, baklava, etli pilav, sis kebab,