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Re: Language Barrier?
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Reply to: #525768 by DragonDs
Jul 1, 2010 1:28am
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I too stayed at a home in Germany and can not for the life of me remember if they had a freezer.

Actually, the guy that told me they didn't have freezers was in Sweden. And that was when discussing the fact that we couldn't find either ice or styrofoam coolers in Germany. I didn't actually ask anyone in Germany if they had freezers in their houses.

And, hey, I didn't check the guy's refrigerator myself, he coulda been pulling my leg. Dunno why he would, though. He seemed serious enough.

It was weird to me that bread and cheese could taste so different in another country.

Yeah, that's true -- and I was told that a large part of that is the food processing requirements we have here. Cheese, for example, is traditionally made using some naturally-occurring bacterias, but in the US step #1 is to pasteurize the ingredients to kill off all the naturally-occurring bacterias and then add a carefully-cultured bacteria. Makes eating safer, I guess, but it also tends to make things sorta bland by comparison.

If you wanna talk different, try Australia. I swear the air smells different there. All the eucalyptus trees, I guess.
Re: Language Barrier?
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Reply to: #525768 by DragonDs
Jul 1, 2010 5:29am
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can not for the life of me remember if they had a freezer

in the house I stayed at the freezer was in the basement. So yeah, it wasn't in the kitchen refrigerator, but they still had one.

I really miss the fresh strawberries and the really cheap Turkish food from Germany.