Most households have a glass cupboard with a Meissen figurine or a Rosenthal set. Less elegant but more popular are terracottas and ceramics with their infinite forms of beer steins. The grey steins of Mettlach are very famous. They have to be stored for 14 years before they can be used and therefore have been more and more replaced by glass jars. It is served with a variety of soups and cold meals typically for supper.
German cooking is usually tasty and boasts a very rich variety of sausages.
There is also a rich variety of regional cooking. Pork is the most common meat. Rollmops are very popular, raw salted herring with pickled cucumber and onion. Germans eat a lot of sweets, fruit and pralines. Besides beer there are delicious white wines especially from the Rhine, the Moselle and the Ahr as well as apple juice and cider.