Strange Food - Germany

When you come to Germany you will get the impression that traditional German food is pizza, pasta and kebab (or as they say here Döner). And when you are German and want to host some foreigners and invite them for a typical German dinner you'll get seriously in trouble due to the fact that there are only a few dishes left that are like ... German.

One of the weirdest thing you can eat in Germany has its origin - like most of the weirdest things here - in Bavaria. And no ... it's no sausage although the white sausage ("Weißwurst") would have an enormous potential. Still it is meat ... or to put it correctly: it is meat and meat alone for my weird food from Germany is "Schweinshaxe" (hams hocks) sometimes also called "Eisbein".

It is made from the lower part of pork's leg and they do not much with the meat but boiling it or putting it into an oven. In the end you get a really unbelievable fatty meat part including some part of the leg bones. A Schweinshaxe is therefore heavily marbled meat covered with a thick layer of crispy fat. The skin is still on it. Mostly there are no side dishes but bread and beer (Of course!). Only sometimes you get at least some "Sauerkraut" or potato dumplings with it.