Sounds and Smells of Deutschland

Can't say I've ever seen that Alan.

HR, am I right in thinking that Winnipeg has a large German origin population?

alan8376 wrote:

Can anyone remember going to pickup those every large chunks of ice from some German factory to keep stuff fresh out in the field or a mess do?

I'd forgotten all about that. Whilst in 3 Sqn 1 Div we (Tech Tp) were "volunteered" to run the bars for the Sqn Xmas do. 2 of us took a LandRover & qtr ton trailor and bought 3 huge blocks of ice. When we got them back the only way we could break them up into manageable pieces was to keep dropping them from as high as poss onto the Gym changing room floor. Glad I didn't have any of it in my drinks.

Mike

LOL, Now I'm questioning where the ice came from when we had do's.

jim wrote:

Can't say I've ever seen that Alan.

HR, am I right in thinking that Winnipeg has a large German origin population?

It's got a high German population Jim, but I think that a curry wurst is a familiar meal to former Cdn soldiers here in Wpg than to many Germans here. My wife (German) never saw it untill I prepared a curry wurst for her. Mind, she came over in 48 so that could explain a bit.

jim wrote:

gallahad wrote:

The smell of powder and cheap perfume as you walk the road near the Halle of Muensterland.

Ladies of the night I take it Gallahad.

A driver from Oxford Barracks one night took a short cut through that vicinity, just to window shop,and was so focussed on one , of the ladies , that he ran over another one , killing her. The MP's came and he was later charged with.............Deviation of Route.

Alan, What year are you talking about?

At Combat Supplies in 1978 we had an ice making machine in the Sargeants Mess.

Mike_2817 wrote:

Alan, What year are you talking about?

At Combat Supplies in 1978 we had an ice making machine in the Sargeants Mess.

But Mike: Does the icy stare of the RSM count as an ice machine...

I know when I went to BATUS there were a large proportion of the people in Medicine Hat of German origin. I went to this Cafe and thought I was back in Germany HR.

jim wrote:

I know when I went to BATUS there were a large proportion of the people in Medicine Hat of German origin. I went to this Cafe and thought I was back in Germany HR.

A good chance they were Mennonite Jim. Not an uncommon thing around there.

Just thinking, Hardrations.
Coming from a ruined Germany as she did, Canada in 1948 must have been like paradise to your wife.
brum

brum wrote:

Just thinking, Hardrations.
Coming from a ruined Germany as she did, Canada in 1948 must have been like paradise to your wife.
brum

I don't know if was like paradise brum, but I know she still mentions seeing a huge basket of fruit in the rear window of the car that picked them up at the train station in Winnipeg in November. She just couldn't get over that. Also by this time a potato each for an evening meal was gone bye. She always said that after her dad returned from the POW camp in Scotland was the only time she ever saw him with a round face. This past May she found at that the food is grand in Scotland and understands a bit better why her father was grateful for the way he was treated there.

Nice story mate.

brum

The mention of hot. wet brown paper takes me back (I still "do it") that way
also the faintly parraffiny smell of Renovator.
Also, long lasting heads on lager. I have found a source of Dortmunder but the head doesn't last like it did in my local Gastatte in Osnabruck (must have cleaned their glasses in something special.)
Oh, and the small of Hermatite gasket stuff, in W/Shops when doing a Top Overhaul.

Well now that summer had arrived, we had a BBQ for the family i did the ubiqutous Bratties and Frikkadelen as usual and they had the lot managed to snaffle or two for myself and yum yum oh happy days,

The family were mainly my neices and nephews and there partners and they came out to germany when we were there, and they said it remineded them of the great times on holidays with us in hildesheim and wildenwrath in the 80's

so the younger generation love them too , all for good education by us truppen of the Queen

Regarding the long lasting heads on lager (or any other beer for that matter)....bottled beer never really -- oh dear, how do I say this without coming off as a perv? -- never really gave great head (sorry!!!).

The barman in your local gasthof knew how to pour the beer out of tap just right so as to create a nice frothy mountainous head of foam on top. Remember those small wooden ladles they used to skim a bit off the top before pulling the tap again? There was definitely an art to it.

I miss that, actually. I have yet to find in any bar I've been to a bartender who, when pouring a draught of beer (and, as a side bar, it bugs me when I see it written as "draft" which is common over here in Canada/USA), can create that foamy topping. Takes too long for one thing, I suppose, and what matters is the bottom line; get as much beer out across the bar as possible as quickly as possible. Meh.....

Now, with some of the microbrewery bars cropping up, there does seem to be more attention paid to the sort of glass it's in, how it's dispensed, etc. and that's wonderful but the general approach is still slogging it out.

As for cleaning the glasses ('Okay...which one of you wanted the clean glass?'), remember those mini-sink type deals with the black bristle in them? Barkeep would plunge the glass down over top, pump it up and down once or twice, maybe swirl it around the top, then pull the tap and create a piece of beer-art! How often those brushes were cleaned I have no idea but no doubt added to the experience and flavour! :-) Could never get away with those things here as the Health Board would have a conniption fit!! Got to pass the glasses through special dishwashers, set at a specified temperature and allowed to air dry before using again. Just not the same.....

Does anyone remember that Minced beef that looked raw but wasn't ( think it was smoked ) . The missus used to go ape when I gave it to our kids , the little beggars loved the stuff and used to wind her up no end .
My 3 eldest all eat bratwurst / Bockwurst / frikadellen.

yes they are lovely and rememaber the smoked pork u could get as well cant even remember the name now, but it was brill, I also make my own Kartoffelpuffers as well the grand kids love them mind u so do i with apfelmuss. my mouth is watering as the thought of them now

Talking of bratties there is a Lidl supermarket near where I live in East Yorkshire where you can buy genuine German bratwurst and bockwurst. Tried to get the manager to stock Herforder Export to make my life complete but he couldn't promise anything.

Noch ein bier,

Norman.

Found it!!
Mett or Hakepeter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mett

brrowe

I'd clean forgotten that we used to do our ironing with brown paper in those days, 6 foot table with a blanket on it, (I'll be 70 in Jan.). I hope you still dip your shaving brush in a mug of water to wet the paper!!

Does anybody remember the "Brewstick" ?

brum

"Brewstick" ?

Was that the coiled electric element we used
to heat water with?

Yep u are right

bob wrote:

Does anyone remember that Minced beef that looked raw but wasn't ( think it was smoked ) . The missus used to go ape when I gave it to our kids , the little beggars loved the stuff and used to wind her up no end .
My 3 eldest all eat bratwurst / Bockwurst / frikadellen.

That was mett Bob, it's raw, but I liked it.

I buy small smoked pork loin joints from Lidl Taffy.

oops just saw you posted it Bob.

I don't recall it being called a brewstick? we just called it the element.

Raw pork Bob ? Christ, I thought that was one meat you CAN'T eat raw !

That's the one Gordon. I don't know how we'd have managed without the old Brewstick. Somebody would cadge a large can from the cookhouse and, with the unexpired portion of the Guard's supper, (tea, sugar & tinned milk) we had a free brew whenever we liked. It was a bit of a social thing in those day, too.

I'm not sure I would fancy handling a brewstick these days and I'm sure the H&S Gestapo would hit the roof!