Sausage and Beer

All countries have traditions. Portugal has codfish and wine, France has cheese and wine, Italy has pasta and wine... and Germany has Sausage and beer. I can't recall a visited German city without it (I didn't travel so much inside Germany but I know a good deal of them) or an event where I couldn't find them both. Even in a Wine Fair. Any cultural manifestation has it here.From Christmas to Christmas there will be sausage. And beer. Amazingly we can find as many type of sausages as France has cheeses or Portugal ways to do codfish. I know, I am repeating myself. As much as I can see sausages in a day. For breakfast, lunch, the afternoon break, dinner, or a snack. All the time and everywhere. It's for me unbelievable how many sausages they could eat a day. Everyday.

I can't hide that the "Thüringer Bratwurst" is the King of the sausages and they can really make it tasty. Aber, not all the time. I wonder how they can see us, Portuguese, with the ... yes you know, codfish or the French with... yeah, you got it. I know I eat more fish myself in a year than half of this citys' local population but can I consider myself addicted to it? Never mind. Let's get back to the sausages. Most stereotypes are taken from facts, and I believe they are just master lines of the cataloging of other cultures in a way to difference them from others and, especially, our own. Some clichés are important to point, as much as the baguette is bound to French people as much is also the sausage and beer for the germans I know. Simultaneously symbols and rituals of these local icons are in each German city I have been. A way of living, an integration mark to blend in.

Take a sausage.

Feel your German side.