The first time I went to the grocery store by our new 'home' was like walking into Wonka's chocolate factory. It was amazing. Huge, sprawling, and CHEAP. I've never seen such varieties of just about EVERYTHING. Germans can't just have mustard - they would like to choose from 12 brands, 8 flavors, and 6 consistencies of mustard. Before I got here, I'm pretty sure Vienna Sausages were the only tube-cased meat in water I had seen - here, oh no, they have an entire aisle!
Bonn is also home to Haribo, the gummy bear company. So in accordance, the grocery store has an entire aisle devoted to gummi treats.
Like Wonka's leisure nightmare tunnel, there's a dose of the terrifying. Early on, we went to find chicken stock to make risotto one night and realized we had no idea where to find, or how to ask for this. We finally managed, after asking a nice man where we could find 'the juice of chicken bones that have cooked a long time' and what we found completely shocked us:
I realize this is perhaps more of 'the real McCoy' than we're being given in the states, but I can't help getting the heabi-jeabies (sp??) thinking about it. Not to mention, I'm not so sure I want to throw those little chunks into what I'm cooking....Notice the label says 'Bouillon' - makes you wonder what's in those little cubes in the states, doesn't it??
Much to Jason's chagrin, I've gotten to the point of wanting to hang out in the grocery stores.
Or maybe he doesn't mind...
3 comments:
Wow. This is pretty incredible. I thought that the whole point of making stock was to extract as much of the flavor OUT of the bones, etc., as possible - so I can't imagine what you would do with the bits and so little liquid. I LOVE that you got such a literal answer to your query though, priceless!
An ENTIRE AISLE for gummy candy!?!?! I'm in HEAVEN! And after the stock debockle (no clue how to spell that), I'm not surprised Jason went straight for the beer. Wish we were there to have a drink with you guys!
German grocery stores are SO SO SO much better than Dutch ones. It's almost depressing *L* I've used that kind of chicken broth before and it's actually not bad. If you don't want the bits of meat in there you can strain them out, but I think they just give more flavor. And if it makes you feel any better, I think that (in Dutch at least) bullion does actually translate to broth/stock and not "compact little cube of salt and flavors."
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