Food for thought

I love food. A lot. The chances of me eventually being a beefy 300 pound woman are probably pretty good. So I try to reign myself in sometimes and work out regularly to counteract my food fetish. It's incredibly difficult for me to control myself in a foreign country where new and interesting (and delicious) foods are all around me. So those of you that will see me when I get back to the states in December and January, please be kind if I'm all chunky-like. Cuz here are some of the things I've been noshing on with wild abandon:

This is breakfast stuff for us here: milk in a box (it keeps for like 6 months unopened and unrefrigerated), various yogurts which are so much better than those in the states, and this incredible drinking yogurt ( the Mullermilch) that I have taken to using as the 'milk' in my cereal sometimes (brilliant, no?).

These are some of the cereals I've been eating. You are probably thinking the Fruchte Musli is probably the tastiest, but you are wrong, the knusper musli is incredible. There's even talk of Mr X taking a box home with him...

Sometimes we buy rolls from the 'backerei' and bring them home for sandwiches. We grab an assortment of meats and cheeses (different every time) for filling. Sometimes we just get crackers and spread liverwurst on them with some strange mustard and have those. Sounds gross, I know but it's good. I also included in this picture a very new Ritter Sport I found here: Dunkle Vollmilch. Basically it's dark milk chocolate. The perfect blend of milk and dark and oh so mouth-wateringly good.

We actually have been eating some fruit so we don't get rickets or anything. These grapes don't look it from the picture but they are huge! The fruit next to them is similar in size and shape to a peach but it doesn't taste like the peaches I grew up eating. It tastes more like a combination between peaches and apricots or something. I am loving them.

As you can tell based on previous posts, we've been having ridiculous amounts of hot dogs/bratwursts/sausages/frankfurters. It's kind of sickening but they do really know how to make these things perfectly appealing and appetizing here. In this Jeff's buying a bratwurst at a stand on the street in Vienna. They take a bun type thing and cut the top off and make a hole in it by poking a long metal rod down it and then they fill it with mustard and stick the brat in. The best one I had, hands down, was the one laced with cheese.

These things are everywhere around here. They are called Doner Kebaps. They fill a pita-ish bread with this gyro-looking mystery meat (but different) and then add some sort of sauce and lettuce and onions and some sort of spicy red powder. They are really good. I found one I like better than the Doner though and it's called the Huner Kebap. It's less like a gyro and more like a sandwich but with similar ingredients. Either one will really do a number on your breath though - Gum and breathmints are powerless.

And now we move on to treats and desserts...

We stop at ice cream and gelato shops every now and again. The best ice cream I've had in Germany remains the cone I had in Oberammergau with my SIL last March. Some others have come close though.

This is the biggest chocolate fountain I have ever seen. You can't tell from the picture but it was like four feet tall or something. Oh, and that's rich, creamy, smooth German chocolate pouring out of it.

I bought this little guy at a chocolate shop in Amberg (more on that town tomorrow). I am attempting to hold off and save it as a Halloween treat for Mr X and myself. But that seems so far away, doesn't it? I think the only thing preventing this delicious looking pumpkin face from already being in my belly is that it's just so cute. Less than two weeks left - I can do it, I can do it...