Sausage Fest at the Fischmarkt

SAUSAGE FEST = WURSTFEST

Here's another word that I'm tried to get started over here. I've explained that any party or gathering with too many men = Sausage Fest. So, the direct translation is Wurstfest. That and Wunderlecker=best tasting thing ever. Unrelated items. Although, the German sausage here is pretty f'ing tasty. But gross comparison, but it does lead to me this...we went on a Wurst spree this morning.

Every Sunday morning, Hamburg has a Fischmarkt and it's really close to our apartment.

This is a a big, beautiful, old building where everyone goes to have coffee or beer, listen to live music and just chill out after a long Saturday night that turned into Sunday morning. I've only done this once. I met up with an expat group for Indian food and it turned into an all night affair replete with a lot of beer, dancing at a shitty club for the teenagers, dive bar for the punk rock kids and then ending up at the Fischmarkt at 7am for a coffee. Crazy night. Today was not one of those days. It was a normal day. It's a pretty big market and no matter what the weather, there are a lot of people out. It closes at 9:30am. So, we usually go around 9am or so. When you go at the end, all the vendors start reducing all the prices.

I really didn't want to go this morning since it was sleeting, but I really wanted to hit up the French cheese lady. We ended up with all of this for 22€. Accidentally, we went to the wrong sausage guy today. So, we got 5 different sausages for 10€, which is already a great deal. Then, we found the real one, and bought another bargain bag thing. So, 20€ on sausage. ha. The lady was really nice and gave us a bunch more stuff. (And, yes, we did get more Santa sausage, in case you were worried.)
AND, we got a giant crate of Blueberries for 2€. F'ing awesome! We're having a waffle-off with a couple of friends next weekend. So, we're freezing half and I just made some healthy blueberry bear-shaped cakes since we couldn't find the muffin form.

After the Fischmarkt, we hit up the only store that's open on Sundays, Lidl. (Blue laws here, too, it is officially a Catholic country.) We found some weird pre-made Meat Loaf things. I guess this is where meatloaf came from. It looked scary to me and my lady thought it looked delicious. haha.


Every week, Lidl, focuses on one country and does an international food sale thing, but it's only the shitty version of. So, the American sale will have frozen American burgers, Blueberry pie mix, Peanut Butter, Potato Chips, and Ketchup. That's pretty much it. And it's all manufactured in Germany. Everything has an American flag and Lady Liberty on it. It's awesome.

Just like my wallet. I feel like I could have only found this here....or Texas.

Alright. Time to get ready for the gym.

U-S-A! U-S-A! But pronounced - U like Umlaut, S (normal) and A like Aubergine.