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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Said no one ever: “Let’s go out for German food!”[/quote]

+100 We lived in Germany for four years. Worst food I've ever had anywhere. And we have lived all over the world. It's not just German food. Germans are notoriously bad cooks no matter what they cook.  [/quote]

I’m the PP who mentioned going to Germany and not seeing a vegetable for weeks.

DH is German. We met in our late 20s. He had never eaten broccoli, or many other vegetables. I could count on one hand the total “different” foods he would eat (and I don’t count 4 kinds of sausage or different schnitzel types of meat covered in gravy as different foods). Years later, his parents looked quite suspiciously at acorn squash when I made it for dinner.

His parents cook well, but its  all a very common preparation, whether fish/pork/beef, and very simply spiced. Always potatoes or spätzle. Maybe a basic green salad, served with of course, Salata vinegar. They about blew a gasket the time I served quinoa and neither potatoes or spätzle. While willing to “try”, these aren’t about to become normalized additoins for them.

Don’t get me wrong - German good is amazing in Germany, where the ingredients are fresh and it’s made literally to serve. The experience is well worth the visit. Getting “spargel” (white asparagus) in season is a revelation. But OP is also being a PITA, mostly because it’s not her actual grandson. Yes, many German children wouldn’t talk back about the food on their plates, but most German children aren’t being faced with what I suspect OP is thinking to serve. [/quote]

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