Kultur 7

Hallo Klasse,
The first article I read was USA Kulinarisch which listed German recipes for Americans to use. Most of them were seasonal and a majority of them were sweets. This made me wonder about German culture in terms of food. In some places they are known for certain eating or cooking habits, for example everyone seems to think Americans deep fry everything and eat hamburgers all the time. Perhaps Germans are traditionally good at baking?
The second article What Discipline? of German Lines and Pythons was actually really interesting to me because I just recently learned that the American idea of a line is not the same as other countries. My Anthropology professor told us about the line behavior of citizens in Poland and so before reading the article I predicted it to be the same. However, it is quite different from both the USA and Poland. In Germany (at least how the article made it sound) people tend to get impatient waiting in line and slowly end up next to you rather than behind, a strategy for cutting I assume. I thought this was unusual because based on the past articles we've read in German 101 I got the impression that Germans were straightforward people, not rude but not likely to beat around the bush. Knowing this I expected to hear, or read, that Germans would wait in line like Americans but given the opportunity they would gladly take your spot.
The first thing listed in 365 Dinge is Neujahrslauf and since I ran cross country in high school that's something i'd be interested in doing. Also listed as number 25 were Knofel, which looked like they'd be worth a try. It was hard to find something in the book that i'd want to try more than the other, especially because there's so much. It's hard to believe that there could possibly be 365 things, a variety of things too, in just two cities. If I ever get the chance to go to Germany, I will definitely bring this book with me and be sure to try a few things out!
Guten Abend!