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I love bratwurst with Tabasco sauce and horseradish sauce.

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.

-THDoM

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.

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.

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?

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?

-THDoM

>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

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

Ooooooooh bratwurst and curry. I have to try that.

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.



-THDoM

Oh, "chopped" is the word you are looking for. 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 ...



-THDoM

the hats? they take your mind off the lederhosen

ich werde ihn geCUTted haben 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 right now and sleep a while *blink*

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.



THDoM

Yeah.

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.)

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.

Regards,



-THDoM

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

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

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