Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> "Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
> m...
>> ...the hated Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989...it was a
>> "feel-good" moment extrordinaire...!!!
>>
>> Thank you Chairman Gorbachev...thank you President Reagan...thank you
>> brave
>> people of the former East Germany...!!!
>>
>>
>> http://germanoriginality.com/madein/recipes/berlin.php
>>
>>
>> Berlin & the East:
>>
>> (Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen)
>>
>> "The people from Brandenburg and Saxony share a love of potatoes.
>> Both consider simple dishes delicacies - potatoes cooked in their
>> skins with quark and linseed oil. Try some of the unique meals like
>> Leipziger Allerlei
>> (a vegetable stew with morels and crayfish) or Krautwickel (cabbage
>> rolls with a minced meat filling). The states of Saxony and
>> Thuringia on the other
>> hand cannot agree who first invented dumplings. In both states these
>> fluffy
>> dumplings are eaten as a main course - with meat dishes with lots of
>> gravy.
>> But it is undisputed that the grilled sausage, this spicy
>> masterpiece, was invented hundreds of years ago in Thuringia.
>> International cuisine can be found everywhere in the city of Berlin,
>> but you can also find traditional foods such as Bockwurst, the
>> Berlin Currywurst and Bouletten (a kind of Hamburger). Many people
>> in the east drink a Pilsner with a meal, but in Berlin it will be a
>> Weiße (a light, very fizzy beer flavoured with a dash of
>> raspberry juice or woodruff). The flowery wines from the Elbe and
>> Saale-Unstrut regions, Germany's most northern wine growing region,
>> can be especially recommended as can Rotkäppchen Sekt (champagne).
>>
>> http://germanoriginality.com/madein/...rlin.php?id=20
>>
>> [GM: If you've been to Berlin, you've surely had this typical Berlin
>> specialty..:]
>>
>> Bratwurst with Curry Ketchup
>>
>> Currywurst
>>
>> Originally from Berlin, this German fast-food-favorite can be found
>> in the snack bars of almost any city. Why not make it your new
>> favorite?
>>
>> Ketchup
>>
>> 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
>> 1 small yellow onion, peeled and finely chopped
>> 1 (14 ½ -ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained
>> 1 tablespoon brown sugar
>> ½ cup cider vinegar
>> pinch of powdered mustard
>> pinch of ground allspice
>> pinch of ground cloves
>> pinch of ground mace
>> pinch of ground cinnamon
>> ½ bay leaf
>> salt and freshly milled black pepper
>>
>> Sausage
>>
>> 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
>> 4 large fresh sausages, preferably bratwurst
>> mild to medium curry powder
>>
>> For the ketchup, heat the oil in a small saucepan and sauté the onion
>> until
>> translucent. Add the tomatoes and the sugar, vinegar, mustard,
>> allspice, cloves, mace, cinnamon and bay leaf. Simmer uncovered, for
>> 45 minutes, or until a thick paste forms. Remove the bay leaf and
>> puree the sauce. Season with salt and pepper and cool. The sauce can
>> be kept refrigerated for 3 to 4
>> weeks.
>>
>> For the sausage, heat the oil in a large skillet. Saute the sausages
>> until cooked through and browned, turning them frequently. Top each
>> sausage with the sauce and sprinkle with a pinch of curry powder..."
>>
>>
> gee, thank Ronnie Raygun...that senile git was out of office by
> then....figures they'd give him credit. He didn't end communism, he
> didn't reunite Germany and he CERTAINLY didn't tear down the
> wall.......the GERMAN PEOPLE did!


With the HELP of the Western Powers, NATO, and the inspiration stemming from
western freedom, prosperity, and democracy, Ginny...and Pope John Paul II,
too...

FACT: When Reagan told Gorby the US would proceed the the SDI ("Star Wars")
initiative, the jig was up with Soviet Communism. The Soviets by that time
could not even afford to feed their people, let alone build a decent
microchip. The whole house of Communist cards started falling, and it fell
*peacefully*, no WWIII...


--
Best
Greg