We actually have casual mash for a monday to saturday tea and a formal mash for a sunday dinner. The unused mash can then be made into a hash to ensure little to no wastage. The well known, worldwide term of endearment, spud ninjas, wasn’t bestowed upon the emerald isle for nothing…

Mash : strong bodied with notes of spring onion. Slight Suggestion of resentment.

Smallman1 German mash is not a patch on ours!

And how much time have you spent eating in German restaurants?

Some German food is shite: spaetzle, for one. Their attempts at pretty much any salad.

But you can’t knock their bangers and mash. Or even better, pork knuckle, mash and sauerkraut. Or, ‘gewinnen’ as my German cousin ‘tolle schuhe’ likes to call it.

      bosstrabs Or, ‘gewinnen’ as my German cousin ‘tolle schuhe’ likes to call it.

      Surely ‘Kleiner Mann’, no?

        bosstrabs But you can’t knock their bangers and mash. Or even better, pork knuckle, mash and sauerkraut. Or, ‘gewinnen’ as my German cousin ‘tolle schuhe’ likes to call it.

        I have had some very good mash here, certainly.

        Their sausages in restaurants can vary wildly. There are so many different types and they often don’t really describe well or at all what it is on the menu. They’re still in most cases very good mind, but often you can end up with something completely unexpected.

        Also, the vast majority of sausages here have a very different consistency to the British banger, being much more finely ground and silky, as opposed to the chunky meatiness of good British banger. Many of them are still excellent, but again it’s surprising how rare the more meaty style is.

        Finally, the sausages available to buy in supermarkets here are mostly crap and you’ll be lucky to find much more than a bog-standard Bratwurst. If you want anything resembling a more meaty banger then you’ll be in for a proper mission trying to find anything close. The range of sausages in a decent British supermarket is far superior. It’s incredibly bizarre given the supposed German love of sausages that their supermarkets are truly so pathetic at them.

        Pork knuckle is an abomination btw. An overly salted mess. I guess being used to Chinese cuisine you’re not so bothered by salty gristly crap though.

          No one sucks the life out of a thread like Hugo.

          Proper flatliner.

          The food in Germany really wasnt for me. As Hugo said pork knuckle is fucking minging. Made me feel sick after I’d had it and one of the most unhealthy things I’ve ever eaten. The whole plate was just a giant mound of heavy fatty, carby slop. The sausages in Germany are shite compared to Brit sausages too, infact I’d go as far in saying the expat Australian reincarnations of them are better. Ultimately no one makes sausages like British ones though. Some of the Mick ones I’ve had pass but still not the same standard as what’s available in the supermarkets nowadays.

          I like sauerkraut though, just never know what to actually have it with. Fascinating.

          England and Germany fighting over what food is better.

          You can’t help but love to see it.

          Techno and sausages go hand-in-hand, since 95% of the sausage-fest crowd is normally male.

          jonattonyeah And also going to other countries like Czechoslovakia and just annexing them completely.

            The Best Bangers are British (waves flag).

            Also, currywurst is dreadful. “Oh you must try the currywurst if you go to Berlin…” Dahling etc etc. I did. It was shit.