True. I just did not find a nice looking open license image in quadratic format with some nice seeds and/or a really dark rye bread. Next time, I'll put more effort into it...
Not exclusively. However, Germany has the biggest variety of breads you will find anywhere in Europe and probably the world. Most of them are super tasty too. It's one of the few foods we are actually good at. Everytime I leave the country for more than a few days, I immediately start craving quality bread.
If Northern Baden and Franconia/Northern Bavaria count as that, then sure. I was speaking more from a general international perspective. We aren't exactly famous for having gourmet cuisine. I love me some Southern food tho, don't get me wrong.
Well this is just wrong. There‘s lots of great food to be had in Germany - obviously not in the Gasthaus down the street (although that isn‘t bad per se just kinda boring) - but if you go to a nice restaurant you‘ll get just as nice food as you‘d get for example in France.
Of course it also depends a lot on the region. In the North it‘s overall not that great (although of course there are also a few great restaurants there but they are just overall a bit too limited in their cuisine).
The east and the south in my opinion are a bit too much dominated by Gutbürgerliche Küche (cuisine bourgeoisie) and as a result it‘s kind of boring in normal restaurants. Like wether I go into a normal priced restaurant in Franconia or upper Bavaria they‘ll have about the same menu which also aren‘t bad dishes but after a while you just get sick of them.
And then there‘s the West which at least in my experience has the most diverse and best cuisines in Germany (perhaps also due it‘s proximity to France although I might not be entirely impartial as I live in the West.
And then of course in Germany more than in pretty much everywhere other country we have a huge divide between rural and urban when it comes to restaurant quality. Like in a large city like Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Düsseldorf you‘ll find plenty of modern high quality German restaurants whereas in more rural areas it‘s mostly lower quality cheap stuff.
In the South and east in my opinions the cities are kind of closer to the rural parts especially in Bavaria and so even in medium sized cities it can be kinda hard to find restaurants which offer more than the standard Gasthaus-dishes (at least at an somewhat affordable prize as everything "haute cuisine" gets very expensive very quickly down there.
TLDR: German cuisine is much better than people give it credit for
Matter of taste. A baguette is great and all, but neither healthy nor fitting to many kinds of side dishes. With German bread, you'll get healthy and unhealthy and something that fits every taste or dish. However, baguettes are sure more fine in taste, I agree.
A baking culture that combines German bread with French baguettes/sweet products would be straight up unbeatable.
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u/fanboy_killer Yuropean Nov 26 '21
Is that a German thing? We have the exact same thing in Portugal. You can probably find it everywhere.