Thursday, March 30, 2006
Speaking of Cake...
I'm forcing a smile again today and NOT going to rant. Instead I'm listing some things I actually LIKE about Deutschland. Starting with...
THE CAKE: or "sugar" in general. Some of you know my love of cake, and all things sugar or chocolatey. It's everywhere. You know how ubiquitous CVS is in any US city? That's how many bakeries we have--two or three on every block. (I'm squeezing in a rant here: it's happened more than once that I've bought cake, only to discover when I got home that it reeked/tasted of the cigarette smoke it had been soaking in all day, thanks to the chronic smoking here. No need for preservatives.)
Include in this cateogory is candy and all things chocolate. You can tell a lot about a country by going to the grocery store. Look around, what's in everyone's cart? CHOCOLATE. Unlike my homeland where the cereal aisle is predictably the most comprehensive in the store, here the cereal aisle is scanty, but the candy aisle is stocked from floor to ceiling and end to end with a huge variety, from gummi coke bottles to chocolates in every shape and form. It's a staple. And I love it.
HAVING AN ACCENT: Did you ever think it would be fun to have a foreign accent, or try out your phony german or french accent in an airport or a museum? I don't have to fake it here, I have a foreign accent. What's better, they don't even think I'm american, they think I'm english. Tres chic, girls my age tell me how cute it is.
PET FRIENDLY: Dogs are allowed everywhere. I'm not exagerating: stores, restaurants, parties. You have to buy a metro ticket for your child, but dogs ride FREE. Here's a pic of a dog shopping with its family. Dogs also smoke here and don't wear deodorant, but still...
LOCATION: Cologne is particularly convenient to visiting other, friendlier, cuter places in northern europe such as Holland, Belgium and scandinavia. Places where adults will cross the street on red--free thinkers!
There's more where this came from, but I won't bore you with the Roman history and German Expressionism. At least not today... ¶ 5:58 PM
THE CAKE: or "sugar" in general. Some of you know my love of cake, and all things sugar or chocolatey. It's everywhere. You know how ubiquitous CVS is in any US city? That's how many bakeries we have--two or three on every block. (I'm squeezing in a rant here: it's happened more than once that I've bought cake, only to discover when I got home that it reeked/tasted of the cigarette smoke it had been soaking in all day, thanks to the chronic smoking here. No need for preservatives.)Include in this cateogory is candy and all things chocolate. You can tell a lot about a country by going to the grocery store. Look around, what's in everyone's cart? CHOCOLATE. Unlike my homeland where the cereal aisle is predictably the most comprehensive in the store, here the cereal aisle is scanty, but the candy aisle is stocked from floor to ceiling and end to end with a huge variety, from gummi coke bottles to chocolates in every shape and form. It's a staple. And I love it.
HAVING AN ACCENT: Did you ever think it would be fun to have a foreign accent, or try out your phony german or french accent in an airport or a museum? I don't have to fake it here, I have a foreign accent. What's better, they don't even think I'm american, they think I'm english. Tres chic, girls my age tell me how cute it is.
PET FRIENDLY: Dogs are allowed everywhere. I'm not exagerating: stores, restaurants, parties. You have to buy a metro ticket for your child, but dogs ride FREE. Here's a pic of a dog shopping with its family. Dogs also smoke here and don't wear deodorant, but still...
LOCATION: Cologne is particularly convenient to visiting other, friendlier, cuter places in northern europe such as Holland, Belgium and scandinavia. Places where adults will cross the street on red--free thinkers!There's more where this came from, but I won't bore you with the Roman history and German Expressionism. At least not today... ¶ 5:58 PM
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when i read the bit about chocolate, i totally went off into a homer-esque fantasy about the land of chocolate. i got very into sweet things for breakfast in spain. apparently, no one over there eats cereal, so they only have it at hotels for the tourists. you get corn flakes and something that's supposed to be a healthy alternative that looks like mouse droppings. so i ate a lot of pastries. mmmm, pastries.
so there are little chocolate dogs running around! sweeeeeet
also for the section on having an accent i thought you said having an accident..i was prepping for a description of how polite everyone is at the scene of a crash..like eric idle in Eurpoean Vacation.
also tech note, the clickable map makes the text adjacent jump when moused over. i know you like to know your code is buggy ;)
n
also for the section on having an accent i thought you said having an accident..i was prepping for a description of how polite everyone is at the scene of a crash..like eric idle in Eurpoean Vacation.
also tech note, the clickable map makes the text adjacent jump when moused over. i know you like to know your code is buggy ;)
n
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