Real or Not? or Is That Thing About Germany True?
Americans have many perceptions about Germans and Germany, some of which have some basis in fact and some of which are, of course, not true at all. I'm going to try to talk to a few of these. German Food I think this is one of the things in which the American perception is accurate to some degree. The German diet is indeed pretty heavy in sausage (they serve Currywurst once a week in the cafeteria in my office building) and potatoes. There are other things about German cuisine that I didn't know about until I got over here. They eat more pork and less beef than we do in the States. They do like cheese here, but there is a lot more soft cheese (think swiss and gouda) than hard, sharp cheese. Any cheddar that I find here is imported from England or Ireland. The only hard cheese that is found in abundance are Italian hard cheeses ( Parmesan and Grana Padano , mostly). Also, like most other countries in Europe, the Germans tend to drink wine or beer with their evening me