{"id":3814,"date":"2016-12-25T20:21:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2016-12-25T20:21:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T18:21:36","slug":"nuremberg-an-analysis-on-pretzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Nuremberg – A Christmas Analysis on Pretzel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germans love Pretzels. Brezel, Brezen<\/em>, whatever you like to call it. Symbols of all bakeries. Legend says it prevented a baker from certain death, nowadays, it prevents countless people from low blood sugar levels. <\/p>\n

There are two types of pretzel-eaters: those who leave the salt and those who get rid of it. There are more than two types of pretzels. Yeah, I did not know that either, but it makes sense: regional differences and regional pride. See the dash in that pretzel? A Swabian pretzel. Although the little ends are two thick on this one. And they should be crispier and a darker brown.<\/p>\n

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soft pretzel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Why all this talk of pretzels in Nuremberg? Well, there is this really famous pretzel bakery that supposedly makes some mean Brezen<\/em>. And that got me thinking about all those pretzels…a Bavarian pretzel should be soft and without dash. The Kolb-pretzel is still different. We are not in Bavaria, after all (see here<\/a>). The Brezen Kolb<\/strong> carts are e-ve-ry-where. The pretzels are not dusted with salt, but with flour (takes the salt-debate out of the pretzel), the dough is more similar to a bread roll and the outside is crispy. It is also a few shades lighter than its Swabian brother. Mine was sort of tough…my jaw hurts halfway through my second Brezen<\/em>. Sadly, I am not impressed…I love pretzels \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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Brezen Kolb<\/p><\/div>\n

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Brezen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christkindlesmarkt – Christmas market from above<\/p><\/div>\n

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Onto other things after the pretzel-debacle. Christkindlesmarkt<\/strong>, probably the most famous Christmas market in Germany and worldwide. Rows and rows of booths, but it comes down to three items: 600-year-old Lebkuchen or gingerbread (or any of the other hundred names), 700-year-old N\u00fcrnberger Bratwurst (sausage), and mulled wine. Mulled wine because it is a mandatory item at any Christmas market.<\/p>\n

Each booth has the most traditional, best, original. Of course.<\/p>\n

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gingerbread store<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elisen-Lebkuchen – gingerbread from Nuremberg<\/p><\/div>\n

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more gingerbread<\/p><\/div>\n

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gingerbread mania<\/p><\/div>\n

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1\/2 meter of bratwurst<\/p><\/div>\n

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Germans do not only like Pretzels, they also like sausage. Possibly together. There are as many sausage varieties as regions. The N\u00fcrnberg Bratwurst<\/em> is one of the smallest ones, most often described to be the size of a finger, or 9cm. Bestseller is Drei im Weckla<\/em> or three in a bun<\/em>. Three little piggy sausages in a bread roll. Some mustard on top, done!<\/p>\n

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3 im Weckla – three in a bun<\/p><\/div>\n

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mulled wine<\/p><\/div>\n

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2016 edition of the mulled wine mug<\/p><\/div>\n

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December 15th, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germans love Pretzels. Brezel, Brezen, whatever you like to call it. Symbols of all bakeries. Legend says it prevented a baker from certain death, nowadays, it prevents countless people from low blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[28,114,157,232,233,235,445,486,491,498,702,819,881,1046,1317],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4940.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}