Food (Breakfast)

Jake Mackedanz

Germ 110

12/12/12

Food

Traditional German breakfast is nothing really like what we do over here in the U.S. In the U.S. I think hot foods like sausage pancakes and stuff of this nature is what we see as a traditional breakfast. Well at least that what it is as I see it or at least it was before fast food came about. Well when I was in Germany one of my favorite things would be the breakfast that I was served every morning not only in my family stay but at hotels as well. What I noticed was there is a lot of breads, cheese, and meats. And its not stuff that has a shelf life of 3 years it was all fresh my family stay mom would get up early and go out in the morning to a bakery close to the house and pick up the breads and rolls and giant soft pretzels. The cheese we had been in the house but not refrigerated, she would cut the dried cheese off in the morning and cut a few slices to eat. A couple of the days I was there we had a dried beef and sliced salami as well. Another thing that I have never seen before was a soft boiled egg or poached egg. It was interesting to say the least because I thought they were just hard boiled eggs and made every one laugh the morning I cracked on open and to my surprise yoke ran everywhere. I chose to write about this because this is one of my favorite memories that have of my weeks in Germany. There was nothing else like that experience and some of my favorite memories were made there.