German Hot Dog


 

Jim Lampe

TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
A Berlin robber armed only with a barbeque fork attempted to hold up a supermarket on Thursday night.
He was initially succesful in the robbery of a discount supermarket with the cashier handing over cash, police said.
But he was thwarted in his getaway when a fellow employee pushed him into a supermarket trolley and he dropped his loot.
Police said he fled the scene.
In January a man armed with a barbeque fork stabbed his housemate at a train station in the southern German town of Amerang.
Barbequeing, known as grillen, is a popular pastime in Germany. It seems robbing supermarkets in Berlin is too.
In February two Berlin supermarkets and two Berlin convenience stores were robbed within hours of each other, though they used the time-honored method of guns and knives for intimadation.
 
It was funny until someone brought a gun to a fork fight. LOL!

What we call the "hot dog" aka "Wiener" (pronounced VEEN-er) is named after its place of origin, Wien (Vienna, Austria).

The closest thing they have to a hotdog is Leberkase (LABE-er-KAZ-ah, liver-cheese)...which has no liver or cheese in it. It's really 60% lean pork and 40% fat pork belly (or 30% pork belly and 10% Speck without slab). Speck is bacon.

I don't profess to know everything about the subject, but I did live in Germany for 9 years. Four of those years were in Augsburg (founded by, and named after, Augustus Caesar in 15 BC), 40 miles west of Munich. Amerang is between Munich (been there dozens of times) and Salzburg (3 times).
 
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