Mr_Dreamer

All I was asking was will we be able to find fresh bratwurst in Munich NOT Johnsonville brand! I meant the same style. Where I live there are many styles of brats, some look like big hot dogs or small dense meat ones and Others are milky white pre-cooked things that we don't have a taste for! We like the one's that you can see the uncooked meat through the skin/case. Also she didn't say it WOULD offend the locals she said it MAY offend them! I haven't asked her yet to explain that to me but I am sure she didn't just dream it up to make our trip less enjoyable? I will ask her why she said it and get back to you. Thanks.

SuzieC

...just an aside here... when in Nurenberg, my DH (German fellow) insisted that we have Nurenberg Sausages with potato salad.
I thought they tasted just like "Parks Brown & Serve Sausages".
He didn't think I was funny...

anyway, if you want to try them and you don't have a German neighborhood close buy, try "germandeli.com"

J_Correa

Susie - I made a similar comment to my husband about those Nurnberger sausages. He was not amused - LOL. He loves them. I like them for about a sausage and a half, then I've had my fill.

Trophywife007

And, Wiener wurst taste a lot like hot dogs to DH and me. I don't think the Austrians would appreciate that comment, either.

Bob_C

In the USA you will find vendors selling hotdogs, well in Germany they are selling bratwurst.

brookwood

That is correct. No bratwurst in downtown Munich; selling it violates a city ordinance. Also there is very little beer unless you have a purchase permit from the government.

Also you can find no Italian restaurants and the sale of gelato is prohibited by law.

If you believe this nonsense, then I have a bridge for sale.

WallyKringen

Beer and sausage are deeply entrenched in the German culture, more deeply than just on a menu.

There is an imaginary dividing line between Southern Germany (much of it really means Bavaria) and the rest (some will say "the real&quot Germany. It is the Weisswurstgrenze (white sausage border) and nobody want to admit to just exactly where it lies on the map. It's just one of those funny things with which you can either amuse or rile up the locals. The name game.

Like the thin sausages (ideal for slim hot dogs) that, in Switzerland, are called Wienerli (little Viennese), in Vienna (I think) they are called Frankfurter, and in Frankfurt they are called Berliner. Or the other way around. Nobody wants to own up...

But yes, no shortage of sausages of all descriptions in Munich. The sausage is a big part of everyday language, like saying Das ist mir Wurscht (meaning I don't care, I don't give a proverbial). Or "wursteln" (to bumble, to goof, to do something very incompetently).

Just as the mind-numbing qualities of too much beer are well reflected in the German expression Bieridee (a beer idea, meaning an idea that is so stupid it won't fly).

So your TA came up with a Bieridee, and now that you know, es ist Dir wurscht...