A quick trip to do deliver some training for my EU colleagues delivered me to a new hotel near to the Gendarmenmarkt in East Berlin, and whilst it is over 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall, it never fails to amaze me how the machinery of socialism has been systematically disassembled and replaced by the consumer society. I nipped over the road to the Christmas market, and as I saw no fast food available on the streets, thought I would probably get fed there, and I was not wrong.
One think I have learned about Germany and Eastern Europe, is that you can always rely on there being a sausage stall, and especially in Christmas Markets. It seems to be part of the ritual of winter market visiting, independent of the time of day that you drink Gluhwein and eat sausage in a roll. The best sausage I ever had in Germany was in Nuremberg, but here 3 Euros bought your a largish sausage in a dry roll. If you want the roll not dry, you add mustard or ketchup. No messing about.The other piece of good news is that it is likely to be hot -one of the few plus points of freshly cooked street food, and this one scored a 9.5 on the CHOF scale. It was a little dry for a bratwurst, but I am no expert on the variations of bratwurst, so this could have been exactly how it was supposed to be. It did not have the smoky or spicy flavour of some and spoke to more of an English sausage.
As I was walking away from the stall, I saw that their basket of rolls had spilled on the ground. They simply scooped them up, and carried on regardless. So if you are fussy about food hygiene, miss out the bread from this stall or possibly just simply move on to something where you cannot see the joins.
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