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While I was in Germany, I taught a class for a week with a coworker. We taught in Boeblingen, but he's from Colone. He sort of played host, but mostly because he could speak the language - he wasn't from around there, and as I learned, southern Germany can be different from other regions. Anyway, we had way too much fun teaching this class. We spent probably 4 out of 5 evenings hanging out together, eating non-German food like Thai, Polynesian, ... Actually I ate my fair share of German food - probably more than the average German in a 2 week period. I like spaetzle. And the cheesy spaetzle (kaesspaetzle) which is what mac n' cheese *should* be. And southern Germany is very into "meat and potatoes" which I can't complain about. Certainly there were BIG beers to be had, but I didn't drink much. The beer was bigger than I was! I think my favorite food was breakfast. Lots of fresh breads. After a couple mornings of hotel breakfast, the other instructor and I started heading across the street to the bakery/cafe and got espresso drinks and pretzle knots, which were like rolls with the familiar tougher outer shell and the doughy inside - mmmmm split and warmed with butter. Oh man. So good.

By good fortune, this co-instructor is now visiting out here for two weeks and I've had a couple opportunities to take him out to eat. Excellent Mexican for lunch. Cheap sushi for another lunch (okay), and not so cheap sushi for dinner with J.T. (awesome) - we ordered a boat! And last night he preferred seafood. We were sushied out, and unfortunately, there isn't a good local seafood restaurant. So we drove a bit downtown to Scott's Seafood. He got the seared ahi tuna, and I got red snapper. I think I have to go back with J.T. and order the ahi cause it was damn good. Siggi (this German guy) said of all the times he's been out here, and that's several, it was the best dinner he's had. SWEET! I'm a good host! :)
posted by hbt at 12:06 AM