A Conversation for Bucyrus, Ohio, USA - Bratwurst Festival

Bratwurst

Post 1

Zeek, the Keeper of Intertemporal Reality Disruptions and Paradoxical Equations, Honorary Muse of Photoshop Photograph Edits <

I love bratwurst with Tabasco sauce and horseradish sauce.
smiley - fishsmiley - fishsmiley - fish


Bratwurst

Post 2

The High Duke of Mars

The official page of Bucyrus' Bratwurst Festival is:

http://www.bratfest.org/

Personally as a Bucyrus native I am a purist. Give me my bratwurst split on fresh-baked rye with mustard, sauerkraut, and diced onions. smiley - smiley

-THDoM smiley - fish


Bratwurst

Post 3

The High Duke of Mars

One other bratwurst tip à la Bucyrus (pronounced byew SIGH russ), we lay our bratwurst to soak the night before in good pale beer. It makes them really juicy and gives them a wonderful nutty flavour when roasted over hot charcoal. smiley - smiley

As for the Bratwurst Queen, she wears traditional clothing. There is no swimsuit competition because as you can imagine some of the queens of a festival centered around a pork product trend towards, well, a more Rubinesque form. smiley - smiley

Not only that, we ARE a smaller town. Sheboygan, Wisconsin is a bigger city, and they have a bratwurst festival. They may do that swimsuit thing there but it won't happen HERE.

I ask you though, what would people from a cheese state know about real sausages? smiley - smiley

The Bratwurst Festival is also a celebration of this area's strong German heritage. Many of our oldest families trace their roots back to Germany, and some maintain strong ties with their German kin.

How else can you get away with wearing lederhosen in public? smiley - smiley

-THDoM smiley - fish


Bratwurst

Post 4

Queitsch

>How else can you get away with wearing lederhosen in public?

simple... live in bavaria... it's 500 kilometres from here, sorry, can't handle miles smiley - bigeyes

mmh, bratwurst - i prefer cutted(or do ya say chopped?) bratwurst with a *lot* of curry... yeah, i *need* a currywurst now smiley - smiley


Bratwurst

Post 5

The High Duke of Mars

Ooooooooh bratwurst and curry. I have to try that. smiley - smiley

As for Bavarians and lederhosen at least they must have comfortably cool legs. Do they wear those funny little hats too? Around here when people put on lederhosen they wear funny hats, I don't know why. It's one of those mysteries of Bucyrus that only Dana Scully and Fox Mulder might be able to solve -- I suspect it has something to do with our drinking water.

smiley - fish

-THDoM


Bratwurst

Post 6

The High Duke of Mars

Oh, "chopped" is the word you are looking for. smiley - smiley Cut has no "-ed" past tense Cut is the same in both present and past tense. For example, a statement in past tense might be "Fred cut his hand off yesterday cleaning the garbage disposal while it was running."

In the present tense (actually future tense, but Deutsch-spracheren use modals just like English-speakers and the modified verb remains in its present tense form) one would say something like "I will cut Fred's other hand off today because Fred was stupid."

Cut is one of the several thousand little irregularities that make English such a nightmare for people whose first languages actually make sense. We won't go they're, or their, or there ... smiley - smiley

smiley - fish

-THDoM


Bratwurst

Post 7

Queitsch

the hats? they take your mind off the lederhosen smiley - smiley

ich werde ihn geCUTted haben smiley - bigeyes yeah, something like that... I'm writing a damn english test tomorrow, and it's 22.40 here, so wish me luck ^_^

i think i'll fetch a smiley - fish right now and sleep a while *blink* smiley - winkeye


Bratwurst

Post 8

The High Duke of Mars

Viel Gluck, er, Viel Glück, or for that matter Vïël Glück. I keep forgetting that German speakers DO have those cursed Umlauts. They are not quite as pérvàsîvé äs thé Frènçh Áççènts, bût thêy àrë çlôsé.

Regards.

smiley - fish

THDoM


Bratwurst

Post 9

Queitsch

Yeah.

smiley - bigeyes


Bratwurst

Post 10

The High Duke of Mars

On the other hand we English speakers waste vowels and consonants. Who needs six different ways to write the same sound? Who needs silent consonants? For that matter who needs silent vowels?

The English language is basically a cluttered Creole of middle German and French, with a pastiche of Greek and Latin thrown in for variation. It will never be known for its romantic sound (or to my American ears, at least the way Americans pronounce it.) smiley - smiley

I hope that if English DOES become some sort of a world standard it becomes simplified somewhere along the line. We need an Esperanto-like grammatical system for English, with a nice phonetic alphabet that doesn't look like a plumber's nightmare, an alphabet that is friendlier to dislexics.

Wait a minute, the topic is supposed to be about bratwurst. We need English names for all of the little seeds and bits mixed in with bratwurst, that's what we need. smiley - smiley

Regards,

smiley - fish

-THDoM


Bratwurst

Post 11

Queitsch

i love english. it sounds cooler than german - fore german ears smiley - winkeye

the phonetic alphabet is nice, i understand it 'coz its based on german. but you don't get it into ASCII smiley - smiley

yip, let's implenent BWurstML, and rule the world !


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