Searching for the Communist Cuisine of East Germany

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  @stuckonautomatic · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Map2OQRAmBk&amp;t=465">7:45</a> How sweet. The host leaves, but she still prepares the coffee for the camera guy.

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  @jakx2ob · 7 years ago

  I love how they randomly switch zwischen Deutsch und Englisch.

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  @Alex-bf7mc · 7 years ago

  take a moment to appreciate the host for speaking 3 languages to make this, thank you

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  @karl.k.3947 · 7 years ago

  Props to the guy speaking German and trying his best!

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  @Suite_annamite · 11 years ago

  I&apos;ve got distant relatives who immigrated to East Germany from Vietnam:<br>the food was <b>great</b> as far as they were concerned.

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  @pineapplesareyummy6352 · 6 years ago

  I have been to Germany three times (including to Berlin and Leipzig) but never specifically looked for DDR-era cuisine. I guess that&apos;s one thing I should look for next time I&apos;m in the country. I don&apos;t see anything wrong with the food. It has the look and feel of homemade comfort food, practical, and appropriate for the times.

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  @ZacharyDBrooks · 7 years ago

  In the movie Goodbye, Lenin!, a son has to search high and low for Spreewalder pickles because he is trying to hide the fact that Communism collapsed from his terminally ill mother.

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  @denisenova7494 · 7 years ago

  He called the dumplings (Knödel) &quot;A bread you eat with it&quot; and then he makes a giant ball that looks like a cauliflower and cooks it instead of rolling little balls/dumplings and cooking them. He totally messed that one up. And of course the average person had less than that. A Soljanka with that many different sausages was maybe done for Christmas if you were lucky.

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  @mikeymmike · 2 years ago

  I went through Checkpoint Charlie in 1988. you had to change a vast amount of DM or dollars into even more DDR marks and then spend the day and evening wandering around &nbsp;East Berlin trying to spend them. It was winter and freezing, misty and gloomy. There was minimal lighting and few shops. The history museum on Unter den Linden had the requisite Marxist display of German history. <br>We went to a ‘Cuban’ restaurant for dinner and I’ve never forgotten the main. It had a Spanish name but it was a pork chop with tinned black beans, a pineapple ring, boiled potato and a simple iceberg lettuce salad.

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  @voetbalbert · 11 years ago

  this guy is fun as fuck want to see more from him en holland rep.

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  @DerHerrMitR · 10 years ago

  This is my early childhood right there. My grandmother still cooks some of these dishes up until today.

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  @Nicole.Koeckeritz · 10 years ago

  this made me cook soljanka for the first time in 15 years! always loved it :)

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