German American day October 6th today.

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I'm making sort of a German meatloaf thing with apples onions and pickle relish.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

The Gotch's Dear late Father's paternal heritage was heavy Kraut!

The Gotch

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Other peoples get an entire month.

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Other peoples get an entire month.

No kidding.

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I will drink some Fanta

[DriftlessRoots]

I had a dill pickle with my lunch

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My wife is a German American. Every day is a celebration.

[rxkeith]

grandma on my dads side was pennsylvania dutch. german in other words.
did not do anything special to celebrate the day.


keith

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grandma on my dads side was pennsylvania dutch. german in other words.
did not do anything special to celebrate the day.


keith

Pennsylvania Dutch is mispronouncing of the German word Deutsch as in Deutschland meaning peoples land but every similar at that because the language and people are related.
But I imagine we all know that.
When I was in the Netherlands they spoke a weird mixture of English and German sort of.
Both Germans and the Dutch were very straightforward and didn't beat around the bush and would tell you what they thought so to speak.
So I got along with them very well because I was raised the same way.
I recall Christmas dinner one time where I told my younger brother in law to take his cap off at a formal dinner setting to everyone's surprise.
May I have, please and thank you goes a long way in these countries instead of typical American rudeness like give me this or that or I want.
I wish I could find that high class German cook book in the house that also has German etiquette in it as well.
It was very informative as to the way people were or at least were at one time.
We had a German friend in Austin years ago that I liked very well.
You just didn't drop in you would call first and if you could only stay for a couple of hours she would tell you so because she had some place to go..
This didn't mean you couldn't come over or you weren't welcome it simply meant that there was a time limit.
Some people took this as being rude or mean when in fact it was just setting limits and boundaries.
No means no and yes means yes.

To this day I feel a little guilty for being really good friends with a woman about 10 years younger than me in Alaska that was from Poland and came up in that country during the time it was part of the USSR.
She worked in the kitchen.
She was very beautiful but after the idiot guys tried to talk her up and flirt and got shot down they hated her.
They said she had a nasty disposition
Me not being one to do such things I got along with her really well.

[Kurt]

We were called “amis”growing up from American soldier/German moms.We have been celebrating Oktoberfest all month so far.Will be making real potato balls called Knodel,a mix of grated raw potato,cheesecloth drained and squeezed,boiled taters mealed out in a press,mixed together crotons in center,hand made dropped into boiling water.Gots to have some good Knor gravy with a good German pot roast.Grandma made every Sunday back then.

[JRinPA]

Yet another holiday I've never heard of. Now Columbus Day, aka Italian American day. But they were mostly city folk. St patrick's, sort of the same, lots of Irish city dwellers. Got to appease those city folk types with holidays! German Americans though, we just call them family and neighbors. Americans.

STOP THE DIVISIVE HOLIDAYS ALREADY!!

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Yet another holiday I've never heard of. Now Columbus Day, aka Italian American day. But they were mostly city folk. St patrick's, sort of the same, lots of Irish city dwellers. Got to appease those city folk types with holidays! German Americans though, we just call them family and neighbors. Americans.

STOP THE DIVISIVE HOLIDAYS ALREADY!!

I didn't know it existed until Feli from Germany posted it on YouTube.
She's a native born German from Munich that lives in Ohio i enjoy her videos about the differences in German and American culture.


https://youtube.com/@felifromgermany?si ... ZG2iBCka8o

[JRinPA]

We had some Germans in the shop yesterday. One regular, a local PA dutch/german speaker, and two Germans I instantly thought of as soccer hooligans. Friend or family, I couldn't say. The one guy loved the dill chips. I didn't know about the holiday...I doubt they did either. Their host bought a bunch of stuff and one of the hooligans wanted to help pay...Nein, nein, nein. That's about all I understood. I have a terrible ear for language.

I guess I'm probably at least 25% German. Maybe 50%. What does Estonian count as? What does a line on a map matter? Who knows, who cares, I'm American.
Anyway I gotta get the dogs in and back to making scrapple.

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I met a Bastrop police officer that was my age by way of some young folks from the Czech Republic.
Two young men and two young women.
They spoke very good English.
One had gotten a ticket by another police officer and asked this one what was going to happen.
He told them they were all going to jail.
The look on their faces was priceless.
Naturally he was joking.
Then another woman drove up with a fog light out and he told her she was getting a ticket.
The woman was beside herself.
Say what?
That's when he met me because I was on my motorcycle.
I proclaimed BS you can't get a ticket for that he's joking.
He started laughing.
That was the beginning of a good friendship as we would meet almost every night at the corner store on his break.
He's retired now.