All the staff are bloody English! How am I meant to practice German if none of them bloody speak it?!

False advertising.

  • Treczoks@feddit.uk
    9·
    1 year ago

    Wenn Du Deutsch üben willst, dann lass uns anfangen…

    I’ve never been to a “German Christmas Market” in the UK, but I’ll be there in December, so if you can point me to one round NEL, I could check how much “German” is there.

    I had a “German Bratwurst” in the UK once. The Bratwurst was OK, but the roll was a soft roll, which would be a no-go in Germany, I assume the “German Christmas Market” is similar, trying to copy, and getting it right up to a certain level.

  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    7·
    1 year ago

    You probably need to go to German Christmas Market in Germany. Though most of the staff will still speak English.

  • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    What’s a German Christmas Market?

    Is that an England thing or just a long name for Christmas markets

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.worldOP
      8·
      1 year ago

      Manchester and Brum have them round Xmas time selling ‘German’ Bratwurst and beer for £8 with lots of German flags waving.

      People were buying tiny pots of baked beans with curry powder in them for silly money.

      If they plan to charge me a tenner for a sausage I demand to be served in bloody German!

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What’s a German Christmas Market

      They’re quite common in most of the big cities (I’ve been to the one in Manchester quite a bit, that’s been running since the 80s) you get to drink gluhwein, eat schnitzel, but wooden toys and get a bit cold and underwhelmed in the process.

      • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Edinburgh has a regular Christmas Market. Not a German in sight.

        Although I will admit it is superbly underwhelming.

        Never seen the personally in Glasgow but I’m not there as often as Edinburgh

    • Pistcow@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      You drink weird tasting warmed wine and eat stale pretzels. Creepy European Santa is present. Also, pop-up shops and I didn’t know dried horse meat was a thing in Frankfort.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Are these actually a German thing, or just one of those things that is attributed to Germany that doesn’t happen there?

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      They are a German thing that does happen in Germany in pretty much most inner cities. At least for the bigger ones.

      Christmas markets date to the Late Middle Ages in the German-speaking part of Europe and in many parts of the former Holy Roman Empire that included many eastern regions of France.[2] They became a popular Advent custom during the Reformation era.[1] Dresden’s Striezelmarkt was first held in 1434 and one of the first true Christmas markets;[5] earlier markets of the season were “December markets”.[5][6] Early mentions of these “December markets” can be found in Vienna (1298),[7] Munich (1310),[5] Bautzen (1384),[8] and Frankfurt (1393).[9]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market

      • snaprails@feddit.uk
        1·
        1 year ago

        I went to one in Bonn but as it was so long ago that Bonn was still the capital of West Germany I don’t remember it will enough to say how it compares to Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh etc. Also went to Cologne cathedral and there was some b*****d in a kilt standing outside playing the bagpipes