My friend minkymomo raved about the nutritional qualities and general tastiness of pumpkin seeds. So I stopped at a well-stocked health food store and picked up a package of shelled pumpkin seeds. But they looked grey. So I put them back on the shelf. But she said I should get some. So I picked them [...]
I recently found this ad in my local newspaper. It’s for a new restaurant called Megaschnitzel. It entices you with this promise:
Offer: Whoever can eat the XXL-Hamburger/Cheeseburger in 50 minutes, gets it for free!
XXL experience in food- and drink- related matters.
Be one of the first! Book a reservation!
Sigh. The Germans are importing the wrong things [...]
My friends Andreas and Eva recently gave me a book, Vorsicht Supermarkt! Wie wir verführt und betrogen werden (”Beware Supermarkets! How We are Misled and Deceived”). It is a wonderful tour through the various departments of a typical supermarket (the authors are describing German supermarkets but the descriptions sound just like the American ones I [...]