Re: What are you cooking today?
Posted: Sep 13th, '11, 19:02
Be prepared to have a lively time for your stomach and affiliates
A little story related to local food and its consequences:
During a Linux World Expo in Frankfurt, Germany, a couple of years ago I was the Mandriva representative at a Mandriva demo post, hosted by AMD. One day a medium aged couple who worked for AMD asked for a good local restaurant and I took them to one of our famous "Ebbelwoi"¹ places. It's a large place with large tables, people just join in where there are free places. You get in touch with the locals and other tourists, so in combination with the beverages you will soon be in a very good mood (German "Gemütlichkeit").
Not that I did not warn them! "Go easy on the combination of Sauerkraut, sausages, cook-cheese², Eisbein (knuckle of pork) and young apple wine!". But as people from Texas go ("We are not afraid from any food, we are from Texas!") they dug right into it. We had a very nice evening, lots of talking and singing - in the end I called them a taxi cab to go back to their hotel.
Next morning they did not show up at the fair ground. Everybody was waiting because they were needed... They showed up an hour late and all they said was, "You were right! I made it just in time to the bathroom and we had a very busy night!"
Now this was years ago and I can't remember their names, but I still remember their faces and that they had to leave the booth at emergency speed every now and then...
¹ = wine made from apple juice but not sparkling like cider and a bit more alcohol in it. The young apple wine has a strong influence on your bowels' activity!
² = cook-cheese is described of French origin but is also a local food in our area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancoillotte )
A little story related to local food and its consequences:
During a Linux World Expo in Frankfurt, Germany, a couple of years ago I was the Mandriva representative at a Mandriva demo post, hosted by AMD. One day a medium aged couple who worked for AMD asked for a good local restaurant and I took them to one of our famous "Ebbelwoi"¹ places. It's a large place with large tables, people just join in where there are free places. You get in touch with the locals and other tourists, so in combination with the beverages you will soon be in a very good mood (German "Gemütlichkeit").
Not that I did not warn them! "Go easy on the combination of Sauerkraut, sausages, cook-cheese², Eisbein (knuckle of pork) and young apple wine!". But as people from Texas go ("We are not afraid from any food, we are from Texas!") they dug right into it. We had a very nice evening, lots of talking and singing - in the end I called them a taxi cab to go back to their hotel.
Next morning they did not show up at the fair ground. Everybody was waiting because they were needed... They showed up an hour late and all they said was, "You were right! I made it just in time to the bathroom and we had a very busy night!"
Now this was years ago and I can't remember their names, but I still remember their faces and that they had to leave the booth at emergency speed every now and then...
¹ = wine made from apple juice but not sparkling like cider and a bit more alcohol in it. The young apple wine has a strong influence on your bowels' activity!
² = cook-cheese is described of French origin but is also a local food in our area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancoillotte )