We begin our virtual journey around the world with the aim of getting to know the street food that can characterize your country in the best way. These articles are mini cheat sheets for travelers to help you figure out the local food. We will talk about the most popular food, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Therefore, brothers and sisters-vegetarians, please treat with understanding. We want our eating habits to be respected, so let's respect other people's eating too!

Today we will find out what the Germans and the guests who arrived in this country eat. So, , what is she?

What do we know about food in Germany? The fact that the Germans love different sausages, and, of course, beer. And indeed it is. The national feature of street food in Germany is sausages and everything that can be cooked with them.

1.Doner Kebab or Döner kebab in Russian is the most popular street food in Germany at the moment. People who buy German kebab appreciate it for its taste, satiety, variety of toppings, and of course for the speed of preparation. There are currently more than sixteen thousand döner kebab outlets active in Germany. Imagine, every day the Germans (and not only) eat from 200 to 300 tons of such doners. This is a kind of our shawarma, and in our homeland there are also millions of fans of this dish :))) By the way,

By the way, doner is prepared according to the taste of the client, who chooses his own ingredients. Vegetarian dener is also on sale. It is him in the photo.

2. Bratwurst. Bratwurst is also a popular fast food product in Germany. It is a pork or beef sausage. Most often, this sausage is served with bread. It turns out that Bratwurst has more than 40 varieties that are distributed throughout Germany, but a greater variety is represented in Northern Bavaria.

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3. Sauerkraut translated into Russian - sour cabbage. Sauerkraut is the national dish of Germany. It goes with all dishes - both meat and vegetable. No serious meal is complete without this dish. It would seem that what is surprising in sauerkraut ?! The fact is that it is eaten not only fresh, but also fried, stewed and even boiled! Therefore, on the streets of German cities, you can easily taste this simple, but at the same time unusual dish.

4.Currywurst or in Russian currywurst. Another very popular type of street food in Germany. What is this dish? Basically it is steamed and then fried pork sausage. It is served with a sauce based on tomato paste with the addition of the well-known curry spice, perhaps this is where the name of the dish comes from?! The sausage is laid out on a paper plate and is most often served with french fries and chopped onions.

5. Brezel or in Russian a pretzel. What else is Germany famous for? This is their bakeries. Even in other countries of the world, you can find a German bakery, where there is always a variety of delicious pastries. German bakeries are always held in high esteem by tourists and not only.

In Germany itself, there are a huge number of bakery shops; there are more than 600 types of bread and 1200 types of various pastries in the country. Just think about these numbers! Therefore, street food in Germany is not only sausages, but also bread products. so we vegetarians will not stay hungry :)))

Let's get back to the brezel. What does he represent? The dough is rolled into a knot shape and baked. Looks like our pretzel. Sold as a regular, and with a wide variety of sprinkles. This form is very popular in German culture, and the symbolism of the brezel can be found in a wide variety of places.

6. Bienenstich. Bee Bite Cake. Who said that the Germans only eat sausages and cabbage? Desserts are also very popular in Germany; here they are prepared according to the canons of classical European cuisine. There is, for example, the most popular dessert in Germany. This is a cake-pie, consisting of several layers. The bottom biscuit is made of yeast dough, the second is a thick creamy layer, the third is a thin layer, which is a crispy crust of almonds, honey and caramel. This cake is the pride of Germany, going far into its history. And everyone who comes here is strongly recommended to try it! Therefore, street food in Germany is well represented with desserts.

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7. But what about the drinks - you ask? And here there are some peculiarities. Of course, the most popular German drink is beer . You know this without me. But, for example, you took a piece of the pie and ... decided to buy tea to him, as is customary in Russia. But it may turn out that you have to work hard to find tea on sale. Yes, the Germans are not very fond of tea. They give more preference coffee . Moreover, for your dessert, they can even offer cider. This is a low-alcohol drink made from apples. The Germans love it very much and are proud of it, because they consider it their national drink. Well, we are also not born with a bast, so let's go drink clean water :))) By the way, we can cook natural apple cider vinegar from apples. You can see our own recipe for making it at home.

Summing up

Street food in Germany is very diverse, there is a place for desserts, pastries, and even fresh salads. Everyone can find a snack on the streets of Germany - both an adherent of classic food and a vegetarian. So go ahead - towards adventure!

Four days of homemade food in Germany seriously complicated the task of trying everything you wanted, but at least once all the points were used.
Here is a sandwich that is sold right on the streets from stalls (2-2.50 euros), this particular one I got on the very first day in Halle on the main square. Herring and onion, slightly acetic, but generally pleasant.

If you want more options, then welcome to Nordsee, a chain of fish fast foods across the country. A lot of assorted sandwiches, fish and chips, all sorts of fish burgers, anything, prices up to ten euros, and you can sit inside.

In some places they sell waffles that are not at all like Belgian ones, large and slightly crispy, poured with vanilla sauce or applesauce (you can all together).

There are also pretzels, similar to our bagels in taste, the degree of delight strongly depends on the place of purchase, the price ranges from one to two euros.

And, of course, grilled sausages of all stripes (2-3 euros), here is the Thuringian one, for example. You can’t call it a hot dog, they are too generous with meat, and you don’t need a lot of bread. The most relish in the sausage, fried, spicy, with a crunchy shell. Mustard and ketchup to taste.

You can drink everything down with this very popular thing, a tonic drink with mate, it tastes like a carbonated unsweetened rosehip broth.

As for the most popular German street dishes: currywurst and, oddly enough, döner (the Turkish diaspora, of course), I was sent to the capital to try them (“yuck, this currywurst of yours, you’ll try it in Berlin”), and the guide brought me to the very the right place where people eat the iconic currywurst sold right there in the cult queue for the cult doner.

Currywurst is just a sausage grilled, ketchup drizzled and curry sprinkled over. With potatoes and mayonnaise (three to four euros).

Incredibly tasty, and given that you have to stand behind the legendary shawarma for at least an hour, it is generally vital. Why such queues - is not entirely clear. That is, it is delicious, and very tasty, but there are many tasty places, and it is not clear why so many people patiently stand here. Still, legendary is sometimes an ephemeral thing. But in the end you really get a drop-dead shawarma, you can just have vegetables (peppers, tomatoes and eggplants on the grill, a little feta cheese and mint, everything is sprinkled with lemon and poured with sauce, about three euros) or meat (the same plus chicken, three or four euros ).

As you get closer, you can see how a well-coordinated conveyor of four people works on four square meters. Dancing briskly, they are constantly cutting, filling, wrapping, watering, taking orders and counting this monster of the queue. Notice the cucumbers supporting mounds of chopped vegetables.

The review of Berlin food was short, the next morning again it was necessary to get up extremely early, but even in zombie mode at the airport, gummies in the form of Ampelmanns - little men at traffic lights were noticed. It is in eastern Germany that their form differs from the standard and any that I have seen before, and Berlin has made a whole brand out of this, there are even individual stores.

What did we know about German cuisine before? The same as everyone. The national German dish is beer with stewed cabbage and sausages. When you think about it, strudel comes to mind. And, of course, pork. In part, we were right. But Germany is not fed up with a single strudel! , we were surprised to discover how rich, varied, tasty and satisfying German cuisine is. I do not think that I will be greatly mistaken if I say that German cuisine is very close to the Russian table.

Interestingly, the famous stewed cabbage with sausages is not served everywhere and not always. Many of the restaurants we visited did not have this dish on the menu. From this we concluded that in Germany there are no obvious gastronomic preferences, like pizza and pasta in Italy, goulash in Hungary or schnitzel in Austria. Dishes vary from region to region. German culinary traditions originate from the time of Roman rule. It seems that even then the main dish was pork. You can imagine that a modern German eats almost a centner of pork, or rather, 84 kg of meat per year! At first glance, this is an impressive number. But if you do some simple mathematical calculations, it turns out that the average German eats about 7 kg of meat per month, or about 230 g per day. Not so much! Undoubtedly, these kilograms are also included in countless different types of sausages and sausages. Connoisseurs have calculated that about one and a half thousand types of various sausages are produced in the country! The Germans love pork roasted over an open fire. We were convinced of the great taste of this dish in and where we were during the Christmas week. The taste and smell of juicy pieces of meat completely overshadowed the visual interest, and we did not take a single photograph of this divine dish.

We made up for it a couple of years later. In the village of Brauneberg, pork is cooked a little differently. On an open fire, but not on a grill, but in a huge frying pan.


And in taste it was somewhat different from, but it was also extremely tasty!


Fresh cabbage and several types of salads and sauces served as a side dish for this dish.


It was hard to leave the wine festival in Brauneberg hungry. Is it possible to resist large pieces of steaming pork roasted on a spit?

If you think that potato pancakes (draniki) are the national dish of the Czech Republic, where they are called bramborachki, then you have never seen how they are cooked in Germany. Here, potato pancakes are deep-fried.

We cannot judge their taste and compare with bramboracs, delicious pieces of pork did not leave a single free inch in our stomachs.
Let's not talk about the interpenetration of gastronomic cultures. Perhaps potato pancakes are a Czech borrowing. Or vice versa? But goulash definitely arrived in Germany from Hungary. We enjoyed it in Quedlinburg in a restaurant on the main square of the city. I can’t compare German goulash with Hungarian goulash, I haven’t tried the latter. But the German meat soup won my heart immediately and forever.

By the way, on our first visit to Germany, we were surprised to find a hodgepodge! We really liked her there! We saw that this Russian dish is on the restaurant menu at.

We also tried it in Quedlinburg. I ate goulash, but the Head of the Expedition ate hodgepodge, but such that not all of our restaurants serve it!

Vegetables are well represented in German cuisine. Like ours, they are often served boiled as a side dish. We will return to cabbage, and besides it, the Germans are happy to eat spinach, carrots, beans and peas. Cucumbers and tomatoes are used raw, salads are made from them. Often on a plate you can see onions, both raw and fried. And, of course, potatoes! In the city, we even dined at a restaurant called “Kartofelsak”, loosely translated “Sack of Potatoes”. “Restaurant Kartofelsak in Alsfeld - die, don’t get up,” I wrote in. Here the main violin was played by pork accompanied by potatoes.

In the foreground in the picture is pork with potatoes, baked with cheese. For the second hot one, the Head of the Expedition chose three steaks from different types of meat.
For an appetizer, we had a salad with vegetables and fruits. The white rings on the bread look like pineapples (but definitely not potatoes!). Thin fragrant slices of rye bread smeared with sauce. The pickled cucumbers spiced up the unusual selection of ingredients.

For such a hearty dinner (one salad, two hot dishes, a lot of beer), we paid 40 euros with a tip. The account pulled on 34.5 euros. (As of early autumn 2014, it cost a little less than 2,000 rubles).

The potato festival continued in Wernigerode. I rebelled against a hearty meat dinner and opted for vegetarian options. I settled on baked potatoes with cheese. It was served with a breathtaking sauce with mushrooms and assorted stewed vegetables.

In the background of the top shot, a light salad of fresh vegetables, mostly cabbage, also entered the frame.
Mushrooms were also served with tender pork. There were no potatoes here.

The bill (with beer) again barely exceeded 30 euros.

I will add a small fly in the ointment to the praises of German cuisine. In some places the food was very average, frankly mediocre. In the restaurant of one of the Treis Cardena hotels, we swallowed the dishes served, because we were knocked off our feet in search of at least some kind of edible establishment, we were tired and very hungry. But even on an empty stomach, the famous German sausages looked a lot like the products of the Mikoyan Meat Processing Plant.

We quickly forgot about this failure. In the evening of the next day, we enjoyed real German cuisine in the restaurant of Sankt Goar (Rhine Valley). For the second time, we noticed that in Germany it is customary to combine raw and boiled vegetables in salads. We really liked the boiled potato salad with raw vegetables and herbs.

Hungarian goulash has become an integral part of German cuisine, and I enjoyed ordering it for dinner. Delicate medallions were brought to the head of the Expedition.

“In Germany, you order one dish, and they bring you three plates” - I read in my about dinner in Sankt Goar. This is how it turns out, because the side dish is often served on a separate plate. Not often, but it happened that we were served a plate of salad as a compliment. By the way, this German dinner in Sankt Goar cost us 25 euros (without a tip).

It so happened that Sankt Goar fed us for two evenings. In another restaurant, we felt the influence of French cuisine - I ordered broccoli soup. I remember how I savored the most delicate soup with whipped cream.

The Head of the Expedition could hardly cope with his "tarte flambe" - a dish somewhat similar to pizza.

The next day, in a place on the opposite coast from the famous Mount Lorelai, I was convinced that broccoli is a very common dish in Germany. It goes well with melt-in-your-mouth salmon.

In this restaurant, pork, traditional for German cuisine, was plentifully poured with an interesting creamy sauce, which gave the meat a spicy taste.

And once again, the bill for this divine lunch with beer was slightly more than the usual 30 euros. (32.1 euros).

Of all the restaurants shown above, I cannot choose one over the other. I remember each of them with profuse salivation. But a small, unpretentious cafe in Assmanhausen became special for me. There I first tried the German pork leg. I ate “knee” in the Czech Republic, but this is a different culture, a different way of cooking! In Germany, the pork leg seemed like a dietary dish - by no means spicy or greasy. But not fresh, soft, tender, flavored with calm spices. Garnished with stewed cabbage and fried potatoes. Only my grandmother knew how to make such potatoes on the stove. I don’t even know what I was more delighted with - meat or garnish!

The head of the Expedition did not philosophize slyly and ordered a schnitzel. At that time, we had not yet been in and about what it should be knew only by hearsay. Therefore, and proposed in Asmanhausen, deserved worthy praise.

And the knee? “There are horns and legs left from the goat pig,” of course!

I'll show you a couple of dishes that we didn't like very much. In a restaurant in Heidelberg, the pasta let us down.

There were no complaints about the meat, but we were sitting on the street and on a cool autumn evening, all the food instantly cooled down. And the sausages were not up to par.

Now compare the top dish with the bottom one.

Really, are they similar? Yes, yes, on both occasions we ordered the top of German cuisine - the beloved, adored, traditional German fried white sausages with stewed cabbage. But comparing two dishes prepared in different cuisines in Heidelberg is like comparing a home-made patty with a “beef patty.” from the Soviet canteen. I rent a turnout - a divine dish is prepared in the beer "Vetter" on Steingasse 9 in Heidelberg.

Sweets? And this cannot be taken away from the Germans! The only trouble is that both the Journalist and the Head of the Expedition to the cakes and pastries breathe quite evenly. Rather, the pieces of cakes were an occasion for tasting the first in our lives.

German eateries (Fast food in Germany)

The Germans love to eat. If you don't have the time and money, it's not a big problem to find a quick bite, especially in tourist areas. In the city, we could not choose something from the variety of ready-made dishes offered. Pay attention to the upper left corner of the display case - this open-air diner cooks a pork leg!

After much deliberation, two pieces of differently prepared meat migrated to our tray. White side dish - potato salad.

Please note that the right piece of meat is thickly flavored with fried onions. Not everyone loves it, but we treat the golden onion with due respect. This tray cost us 14.3 euros.

But we arranged such a homeless snack for ourselves in the town of Braubach ().

It is gratifying that the local supermarket has a department where they sell fresh pastries and brew coffee. We bought cold cuts in the same store. And right at the entrance to the supermarket there is a plastic table with the same chairs, so it was very convenient to have a snack.

There are also stalls in Germany that sell real German pretzels. If you see it, don't miss it!

Pretzels bear little resemblance to Russian rolls or bagels. The unpretentious delicacies of our childhood were baked from sweet dough. What a pity that they have sunk into oblivion! Salt is added to the pretzels, so they are slightly salty and very tasty! We went up to the tent three times, finished eating the cooled, but very tasty pretzels in the hotel room, and then regretted that we had not bought more.

In conclusion, I put an autograph in the form of an impudent, cunning, contented pug, eating a German sandwich on both cheeks - a bun with fried sausage. Rattles behind the ears! It was in Wernigerode.

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