I heard the Scorpions on the radio this morning and it got
me thinking. I think I expected to hear much more Scorpions, Nena, Rammstein,
Falco (sorry, I know he’s Austrian), Nena and Hasslehof while here. I also
expected to hear more music in German, but most of what I hear are American or
English songs.
As I was driving in this morning, I realized that here in
Karlsruhe (at least in Waldstadt), the crosswalks where bikes and people cross
the road are raised about a foot from the rest of the road creating a natural speed
bump. Efficient.
I’m still amazed at how many types of sausage there are
here, but I suppose that’s no surprise. What HAS surprised me is the wide
variety of meat ‘loafs’. Unlike the meatloaf I’m used to (roughly ground beef
formed into a loaf), the meat loafs (Leberkäse, or Fleischkäse) here are made
from very finely ground meat. I think it’s almost always pork.
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| Leberkäse |
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Käseleberkäse (lit. cheese-liver-cheese, really pork and cheese) |
Of course, there’s a huge variety of them, and many that
include, um, bits of other things mixed in.
Pizzaleberkäse (literally Pizza liver cheese, but without
the liver), often includes cheese, peppers, pickles and Salami. If only it had
some tomato sauce, it would be very much like pizza. Oh, and pineapple.
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| Pizzaleberkäse |
Zwiebelleberkäse (onion) is made with onions and seems to be
a specialty down here in Swabia-land. In
fact, when I buy it, it usually seems to be raw.
Forgive me when I say, it reminds me of a very high quality
spam. Cubed and fried with eggs, it makes a great spam-and-eggs substitute.
When I just want a hot-dog, it’s a bit hard to find a wurst
(sausage) that tastes like I want it to. Of course, you can find _some_ hotdogs
in a supermarket, but in our markets, they tend to come in kits (with a bun and
weiner) that aren’t very good. We’ve tended to use käsewurst (port sausage with
cheese mixed in) as a substitute. Not a real hotdog, but close enough.
Some of the Fleischkäse also tastes very, very much like a
US hotdog. Which means I can put it on a bun and have a hot-dog-burger.
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