Andere Länder, Andere Sitten

[Rinnhart]

Oh my, I was in Germany with my high school choir in 1975.  We never went to restaurants.  About half the time we stayed with families so we ate family dinners.  The other half we stayed in hostels.  Then we lived on junk food.  In most cities, you would find carts selling white bratwurst, grilled so they had little charred spots on them, served on hard rolls.  No American hot dog could hold a candle to them.  We scrounged grocery stores for stuff for at the hostel and on the bus.  Gummis weren't really known here yet so that was my major discovery.  I brought back big bags to wow family and friends.  We also lived on their chocolate, these tubes of cookies that were two round wafers with chocolate smeared between them and a drink that I think was called Orangeina, which we sucked down by the liter.  It certainly wasn't gourmet but was fantastic fodder for a bus full of high school students.
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