Here's what I found about German dining habits and dietary preferences:
Germans love meat, especially sausage. The German national dish is in the sour cabbage covered with all kinds of sausage, sometimes with a whole pig's hind leg instead of sausage and ham, that burnt cooked a whole pig's leg, the Germans can face the face of a person to finish it. German food to sour, salty taste is the main, more heavily seasoned. Cooking methods include grilling, stewing, skewering, and braising. Blue grid on the tablecloth with a basket of bread, guests in the waiting can slowly enjoy, German bread is very bite, good teeth can taste the flavor. German soup is generally thicker, like to break up the ingredients in the soup, which is probably related to the local freezing climate. It is said that Germans are more frugal by nature, boiled sausage, a pot of thick potato and bean soup, together with the famous pickled sauerkraut and bread, a meal will be passed. In addition, German cuisine is also famous German-style clear bean soup, German-style sashimi, German-style roasted mixed meat, German-style meat sausage, sauerkraut, German-style apple crisp, fried sweetbreads and so on.
Germany, like most of China, has three meals a day. Breakfast is usually at seven, lunch at one, and dinner at seven. Some places have afternoon coffee and cake between lunch and dinner.
Unlike China's eating habits, the most elaborate and hearty thing Germans eat is not lunch or dinner, but breakfast. In hotels or government institutions, most of the breakfast is a buffet form, with staples, meat, vegetables, drinks, fruit, etc., not only a variety of varieties, and color and taste. And in the ordinary people's homes, regardless of their poor and rich, the content of their breakfast is generally similar: first of all, drinks, including coffee, tea, a variety of fruit juices, milk, etc., the staple food for a variety of bread, as well as with the bread with the cream, cheese and jam, plus sausage and ham. Germans eat very efficiently, they can be in as little as 10 minutes to these sumptuous food with the end and eat, for its a morning of intense work to provide energy.
Lunch in Germany is usually served in a cafeteria or fast food restaurant, and it's a true fast-food meal, such as a platter consisting of potatoes, salad lettuce and a few pieces of meat, plus a drink.
The German family dinner is usually a cold meal, the content is very rich: a platter of meat; fresh and tasty vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers; fresh fruit, such as grapes, cherries. Some housewives also served various flavors of cheese, with bread as the main course. Dinner time is more generous, and the family sits around the table, eating and chatting.
In addition to the three meals a day, some Germans are accustomed to four or five o'clock in the afternoon "meal", that is, a cup of coffee or tea, eat a piece of cake or a few cookies. Upper-middle-class families like to invite friends to their homes at this time to enjoy a cup of tea and chat. At such gatherings, the guests could taste the famous German pastries, and German women were generally skilled in baking them. But in today's fast-paced society, this kind of leisurely afternoon enjoyment is only possible on weekends, holidays or vacations.
The typical menu for a German meal is:
Cold cuts: cream, cheese, fresh or canned fish, enema products, ham, fish (meat) jelly with ghost ginger, fish or meat platters, boiled or roasted poultry, garlic-roasted pork tenderloin, braised meats, boiled tongues, salad, thinned cream, yogurt, egg salad, half-cooked eggs.
First course: thick soups made of meat, fish, vegetables, rice or beans, poultry or game soups, clear soups made of various kinds of meat, rice, macaroni and vegetables, egg whites with spread eggs and pies, chicken soup with homemade noodles, thick and spicy soups made of meat or fish, farmer's soup, pickle soup.
Second course: boiled or grilled fish with potatoes and vegetables, stewed or roasted beef, roasted poultry or wildfowl, meatloaf schnitzel, pan-fried thin pork chops, chicken patties, meatloaf, or fried meatloaf; small sausages and short thick sausages with simmered cabbage, hushpuppies, scrambled eggs, and charred and grilled dishes.
Sweets: fresh fruit and strawberries; fresh or canned fruit, boiled strawberries or jellies, fruit acids, custard jellies, coulis with fruit juices and sweetened juices, puddings, apple puree, ice creams; assorted pastries.
Everyone must have cream on the table when they eat, and lunch must always end with black or milk coffee. For lunch and dinner, beer is served. Fruit gazpacho must be cold.
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