the way it is

As a Brit living in another country, I get this too. People make jokes about me liking Doctor Who, drinking lots of tea and having bad teeth.

How dare you but also that is completely accurate.

I wish I could get decent fish and chips or scones with clotted cream in Germany.

People shit on British food, but every time I visited the UK, the food has been fantastic. I even liked the haggis I tried.
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i don’t know if I get the joke? could you please explain it because I don’t think(?) you’re trying to be racist
- It's literally from the damn movie.

I spent a month in Germany last year. Turns out the most authentic German food is currywurst and middle eastern food lol.

But maybe that's just in Berlin. They probably have good potato based dishes in Bavaria.

Bavaria is probably the most "German" german region. That's where all the lederhosen stereotypes come from.

Basically it's the Texas of Germany. Old school, religious, and conservative.

Edit: in the very rural parts, they even have their own dialect that to some Germans is almost completely unintelligible. I realized this when I took German language classes in high school in the USA and what they were having me learn was very much NOT the way my Bavarian mother spoke to me. It felt kind of irritating when they told me I was pronouncing things wrong and my grammar was wrong when I fuckin' lived there as a child and spoke it fluently.
- Well it's the part where after the second world war Americans temporarily governed and American soldiers and their families where stationed. So all they ever saw of Germany was Bavaria. They took their experience back home and so the image spread.
  
  Northern Germany is nothing like southern Germany. Yes they like their beer, but Bratwurst and pretzels? More fish and bread.
- Bavaria is probably the most “German” german region.
  
  So eine Frechheit! Nehmen Sie das sofort zurück!
- There are a few other dialects in Germany that the rest can't understand. For example Plattdeutsch and Friesisch. (Both in northern Germany)
- In Bavaria the favorite snack of locals while there was way to big of a sausage in a way to small of a fresh bun. Not a hotdogs but, like a small sandwich roll. Tasted fantastic
  
  There's was one time I ripped the sausage in half and made it so the sandwich was a double decker, and I got some mean looks.
If you spent your month in Berlin, you didn't visit Germany. Common mistake.
- Lol.
  
  It's like saying you didn't visit the US because you only went to NYC, but not Texas.
There is no german fast food except curry Wurst in Berlin. That doesnt mean there is no good german food. Just in Berlin there are viewer Restaurants selling german food than asian/ middle East and italian food and there is a lot of fast food. I dont know why there are so few German restaurants. In Munich you find more of them...
- I feel that's kinda the point of Berlin though, its culture is formed by the patchwork of nationalities that migrates there. Much like the UK with its Indian food
- Yeah I found it so weird how much international food there was in Berlin. I had to go looking for more traditional dishes.
  
  Also, graffiti..... graffiti, everywhere.
- In Munich you'll find more Bavarian restaurants.
- Uhhhh? Doner kebab?
  
  Never mind that was dumb. Wasn't reading correct
The Döner is a German food though, it was invented in Berlin.

When I was a kid it was more common to have German restaurants and Imbiss. But they can't compete in price and speed with cheaper alternatives in the cities. That's why they were gradually replaced. When you want to eat some more traditional German cuisine, you'd have to go to smaller towns or a hotel restaurant.
Nah you are close. We eat "Döner" (a turkish dish modified for Germany, basically a german invention) curry wurst and "Wiener Schnitzel" with french fires.

We drink beer all over the country but about every 50 km you have a different kind of beer that is prefered and don't you dare to say a different beer is better.

Also the glasses in which the beer is drunken grows from north to south.

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

That's one order of sauerkraut. Is there anything else I can get for you today sir?
Welchem Bundesland soll sie gehören?
- Ja

Food in Germany is highly regional. You can have Kebab everywhere. The Sauerkraut beer and pretzels thing is mostly just Bavaria in the south. At the north sea and Baltic sea you got lots of fish naturally. In Hamburg you have Croques, Aalsuppe and further north Lapskaus. In the southern neighbor state to Bavaria you have Spätzle. And so on.

The beer also changes depending on region. Weißbier in the south and more mild beer in general down there. The north prefers beer with stronger taste that is more bitter generally.

There are few German foods which are generally accepted in all regions. Currywurst is one I'd say. Maybe grill Hähnchen as well although in the eat it'll be called Broiler while in the north noone has ever heard that word. Bratkartoffeln might also be pretty universal although ingredients probably differ. Egg or no egg, pickles or not.

Tldr German food is very different depending on region.

The Sauerkraut beer and pretzels thing is mostly just Bavaria in the south

What? I live in the Ruhrgebiet, you get Brezel and beer everywhere. Sauerkraut is a staple as well
- That's a part of Germany I tend to avoid so I didn't know.
I highly object that pretzels are a bavarian thing. But maybe I am the outlier. Love my pretzels. Not bavarian.
- Don't the Saxons have pretzels too? I'm Czech and I remember seeing them in Dresden (although it was the Christmas markets)
- I mostly meant the combination of things. Also pretzels in the north of Germany are often of pretty meh quality from my experience.
  
  Weißwurst comes to mind as a hopefully just Bavarian thing.
Schnitzel, spatzle, and spargel, the most delicious things that sound like you're making shit up.

"You could use chicken, but you still have to hammer it flat." "Come on. And they make the noodles with a colander? The thing you drain noodles in?" "No really, and there's aspargus, but they grow it underground so it turns white." "If you don't know, don't lie."
neighbor state to Bavaria

Never have I felt Baden-Württemberg to be so utterly disrespected

Jokes aside, potato salad is an absolute banger that goes with so many wildly different meals
Also if you ever forget where you are just walk into a bakery and ask what the bread rolls are called. You'll get a different answer depending on the region.

It's still Bretzel.
Pretzl is like the disabled version of it.

Brezel
- This. It's Brezel, Brezn, Breze or Brezl. Never is there a t in there. Except in Swiss German, which hardly is German at all.
Thank you

To be fair, no need to be German to love sauerkraut, beer and bretzels.

I spent some time in Germany last year, and the pretzels/sauerkraut/doner/spaetzel/currywurst are all top notch.

But holy fuck, fleishkase. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since I returned to the US. I've looked up how to make it several times, but it seems pretty complicated. Damn me and my lazy American tendencies.

That and the beer. I discovered that Dunkels are my fucking jam. Ugh, so good.

TIL that they call it "Fleischkäse" in Germany... Here in Austria it's "Leberkäse" (liver cheese) even though there isn't any liver in it (anymore).

But yes, nothing better than a Semmel with a thick slice of Leberkäse. ❤️
- Leberkäse is common too where I am, especially when it comes to the LKW, the Leberkäsweckle
- When you said Semmel my heart skipped.
- I think they are Leberkäse in Bavaria too, but I could be wrong
- You'll often find it called it either and it never had anything to do with Leber, but Leib... which doesn't mean that certain regions don't put liver in it. Calling it Käse is the suspicious part.
  
  Above the Weißwurstäquator it's known as "that Bavarian stuff" because German law says that if you call something Leberkäse then it has to contain liver unless it's called Bayrischer Leberkäse. You also won't find Brezeln, or, differently put, only ones which sole purpose it is to insult Bavaria (same thing the English do with Croissants) and as to Sauerkraut, it's severely out of fashion. Weißkrautsalat, Rotkohl, yes, but you're basically more likely to find someone who figured out Kimchi than people who eat old-style Sauerkraut.
  
  The native stuff up here is falscher Hase, that is, the same (approximately) meatloaf that Anglos know.
  
  The Swiss apparently exclusively call it Fleischkäse.
A friend of mine has a little farm and he used to make that himself, I like the store bough one already but there is no comparison!

Germany has great food! 👍

Germans aren't a "race".

The joke doesn't work with caucasian.

But you are right I should have used country.... I will change that.
- Much appreciated
- Also it doesn't work because it's not an insult though, unless the "German" in question is actually a yank, and gets offended as an actual hobby
- Caucasian isn't a race either. We're all the human race.

Though what Americans think of as a pretzel is just a sad squiggle of brown dough.

Am dumb American, enlighten us.
- If you get the chance of eating a fresh German pretzel, please compare it to American "Soft pretzels" :)

Strange, I am German and I hate all three.

Best dish is dumplings with roulade and red cabbage.

I think hating all three goes too far. Now Sauerkraut can be an acquired taste. I get that. Some people would hate on you for hating beer but I get that too. Hating pretzels however shows that you are a horrible person. Or you need to avoid gluten and you are jealous us others can eat pretzels. Cus pretzels are amazing. One of the two.
- It isn't gluten, but I moved from a town with best pretzels ever to a town with shitty ones. Now I hate them.
- The pretzel itself is unimportant so long as it can serve as a vehicle for big rocks of salt.
Oh yes, especially with a red wine based sauce. I can't wait for autumn and winter. ( my wife thinks is weird to it when is warm outside)

It’s ok, like nothing special. Grünkohl is way better but I have another favourite. I would share it, but it’s so regional I’d basically doxx myself. And even if you’d know it, you don’t want to know what it’s made of ^^

Grünkohl is fucking amazing, yes! Spent some time in Friesland when I was younger and Grünkohl along with some good sausages and mustard blew my mind
Bestes ist Wirsing mit Kartoffelpüree. Wir nennen das "Schlappschlapp" hier.

Mettwurst, pickles and salami are part of my eating habits I exported. Getting good sauerkraut is difficult even in Germany, it's all just the cheap vinegar stuff instead of lactaid acid.

I lived in Germany as a kid and I really miss the pretzels. They don't make them like that here - they were big and chewy on the bottom and thinner and hard on top.

They looked something like this. I see these are called Bavarian pretzels specifically, and it was indeed in Bavaria.

I hate Sauerkraut and Beer

Am I even German?

Saurkraut is one of those things I can't stand on its own.

On a beef sandwich or with sausage is another story.

Beer though, not sure what to say there. Drink more beer? Then it doesn't matter if you like it or not.
- Sauerkraut und Schumpfnudel. Beschte
  
  Edit: Kann nicht schreiben.
- The French eat Saurkraut with a bunch of different types of sliced up sausage and bacon. Like just in a bowl. I've always thought it was weird.
- If you've never had a reuben, you're missing out.
- The only beer I like is Desperados, but only the ones the lemons one
- Sauerkraut, like cole slaw in the US, is best as a condiment/topping
Nein.

Race?

Race is a largelly meaningless and ill defined term, so sure.
- Countrymen
  
  Fellow Germans
  
  Nation
  
  Several terms available other than “race”, as Germans aren’t a “race”.
*Breed
Human.

How is that an insult? Those are amazing parts of German culture.

Okay this is gonna sound dumb but I'm bad at history. Is the reason there are so many German Asians because of the Axis during WWII?

Edit: Ah, it's because of the Vietnam war. This is mildly embarrassing but it's better than staying ignorant.

No.

A lot of people with (East) Asian roots in Germany are Vietnamese. West Germany had refugees during the American War in Vietnam and Eastern Germany had people coming over because of the socialist brotherhood thing (cheap workers for unpopular work).
- Oh gotcha. That makes sense.
I changed it. Old version:
There are?
- Only if we actually take all of Asia, then yes, there are a lot of people from West Asia in Germany. But that doesn't has anything to do with WWII and probably not what the user meant.
- It may just be a coincidence I've experienced and now because I'm thinking about it it's easy to fall inbto confirmation bias.

This guy's name is Michael Mittermeier fyi! He's been a comedian for ages!

This would also work with the Agent J meme from MiB 3

True.

At this point I'm not sure if I'm too much racist or too much woke, because I absolutely don't understand what is the meaning of the joke. Is German a race now? Or are Asians (race?) supposed to hate pretzels for some reason?

It's just a meme that is used when someone stereotypes a group of people (not intending to offend), but the stereotype is is accurate.

basically "how dare you stereotype us, but also yes".
- But he's really describing Germans as a race? I feel like my grandfather when I was talking to him about playing Sonic
  
  Edit: I get it now, thanks for your effort
The original joke is that someone asks the Asian guy if he likes some stereotypical Asian foods (I forget, like ramen or moon cake).

The Asian dude says that same line about how his people are insulted but he does actually like the food. It's a pretty funny bit actually.

This meme is just swapping the Asian for German but it keeps the 2nd half of the meme, about the comedian's race, the same. You're right, German is not a race.
- Ah OK OK, thanks for taking the time to dumb it down.
I changed it. Old sample is in the comments.
- Vielen Dank mein sehr geehrter Schweinehund (sorry for bad German! 😊)
- Besser ist das.
You're American so your concept of race is based on skin color rather than nationality.
- I'm American now? Fuck! Thanks Obama, I guess

Any country has its specialties and these German Meme things are certainly good, but in general German cuisine is not very sophisticated. In Europe by far it is Spanish and in general Mediterranean cuisine. I am from Spain and here the food is worldclass, apart there are also not only the best wines, but also the beer can compete with the German one. The worst cuisine is in Nordic countries and England, this is already off the scale, luckily there are good Chinese and Indian restaurants there that guarantee survival outside of fish and chips.

Nordic countries might have given us lutefisk, but that's just a cover for their top notch baked goods. Fresh krumkake is like the best ice cream cone you've ever had.
Spain has Italy and France beat "by far"? Probably a bit biased.
- Italy has a similar cuisine as Spain, but generally the Mediterranean cuisine is the best, France generally isn't bad, but quite overrated, we found the best Restaurants in Alsace, perhaps, if Seafood is your thing, you can add Marseille. Besides, the wines are good, but the French beer is horrible, it taste like dishwater. I have traveled a lot in Europe and I know what they offer in the culinary world and there is a clear trend of the further north, the worse. Maybe it has to do with the way of life and the climate. When forcefulness and calories prevail over sophistication.
Spanish cuisine is great

But French is every bit as good

Outside of Europe? Nobody can compete with America in depth and breadth in terms of incredible food options.
- Options a lot, but not in local food and food culture.
A huge chunk of traditional Nordic food is either dirt-poor peasant food, or food that keeps for months on end so the brutal winter doesn't kill you regardless of whether you're a dirt-poor peasant or a hoity-toity lord (and this is what lutefisk is: usually low-quality dried fish cured in lye to soften it.)

Unfortunately this also means that many recipes are more or less lost, or really only written down in eg. family recipe books. And at least here in Finland we've also stopped using a majority of the local herbs we historically used, in large part because they're not seen as "fancy" (being herbs that dirt-poor peasants gathered from the woods) – not that we were ever that into spices, life being honestly pretty miserable for the majority of the population especially when serfdom was a thing. People had, well, other priorities
The moment I hear someone claim a culture's food isn't sophisticated unironically is the moment im going to shut my brain off. It's such a ridiculous claim no matter who it's directed at.

You like whatever food you like. It's not more complicated than that.

was ist das für eine "Rasse"? sind Bayern biologisch so "eigentständig"? Vielleicht wurde in der Boomerschule einfach anders unterrichtet?