The Florence daily tribune. (Florence, Colo.) 1898-1903, 1898-10-17
EATING IN GERMANY.
THE sARcAsMs OF A VICTIM WHO
SURVIVED ITS CHARMS.

fNre and Is Particularly Irrltated Over
= Dish of Powdered Hor.c RadIsh Served
I with Frozen Whipped Cream
/ When you have examined the CON
stitution of tho German cuisine, you
are tempted to grow loquacious. You
are conscious of having discovered that
the psychology of nation cannot BIO
constructed upon mere analysis of its
made dishes. Your estimate of Brillat-
I Savarin sinks. He could not tell you
what you are, even from all the menus
/ of your lifetime. Freiligrath's philo-
sophie conclusion that "man is what
he eats you straightway qualify as
true only when referring to cannibal-
ism. And you will aver that only in
the case of paleolithio man eau yoa
construct man from the crumbs that
1 fall from his dinner table. And this
/ you will want to prove, and oonse.
7 quently viii grow mlkative with pre-.
seuting of much evidence.
| And yet, in your sane moments, you
will have n sneaking affection for tho
statement that German is German
I because he eats what he eats. AS n gem
eral rule he may be said to eat five
1 times day. But his hunger is con-
stantly being stilled.
! He starts early in the day with cup
of cafe au lait and small butterod
roll. This keeps him going till IL
o'clock, when he demolishes q slice of
huttered rye bread spread with slices
of hard boiled egg, raw chopped beef or
/ 10, a. 81,
glass of ale, thus stilling his inner man
till dinner time. Dinner takes place TO-
ward O'Clock and consists of soup
1 generally nonrisbing), plate of meat,
with potatoes and fruit (cranberries,
prunes or apricots), occasionally cheese,
seldom sweets, rarely u green vegetable.
Three hours later coffee is taken,
served with piece of cake or thick
bread and butter. This is the hour pre-
oious to the gossip and the busy body,
the time for spreading scandal. Toward
o'clock tho appetite again asserts
itself. The hour Of the ubiquitous sau-
sages has arrived. Their name is legion,
and they share tho honors with slices
of ham, smoked goose breast, pieces of
raw picked herring. and in summer
hard boiled eggs and potato salad
Such is the German method of spread
ing the meals over the day. OF course
there are exceptions. Many families
have two umple meals day. but tho
bulk of the population eats mostly but
tered bread and snaoks. In justice to
Germany one must say that the fare in
many home will compare favorahly
with that of many an American family.
~ ts~t,
is on the whole monotonous and tho
food singularly insipid. All meats seem
| to have the same flavor, all are served
with the same heavy viscous sauces, Z
and invariably escorted with the same
soaplike potatoes. Stodginess and heayi-f
ness are the great blots on the German
| fare. The element of variety, too, seems
! considered snperfiuous,
/ In the concrete the subject is almost
too painful to face, the difficulty being
to steer clear of EXPLANATIONS denoting
positive offensiveness. Some of the
kickshaws which figure regularly upon
the German table are reputed to be most
| sustaining. They certainly are intense
| ly and ostentatiously wonder inspiring.
One preparation is everywhere met
with under the name (more or less pho
netically spelled) of beefsteak la tar
tare. Its basis is raw chopped beef;
| this, spread out into pat of elliptical
shape, is crowned with the raw yolk of
an egg, raw finely chopped onion is
/ sprinkled over it, garnituro of CHER
I kins is added, and the whole is eaten
with much gusto and no worse conse-
quences than durable thirst.
| 4 - A.. TT. =,
all the humor, feeling and imagination
] Off Waenerian corrpositinE4- Yon find
the resolute desire to build up harmony
| upon discord. OF this nature may be
considered the traditional menu of New
Years. eve, carp pancake and punch.
These three brought into immediate
! juxraposition and consumed i'll plethorio
quantities, generally have the desired
effect-that of inducing a hysterical
good humor.
For stodginess nothing beats the ia
vorite dish. panache. 1t consists Of
picked pork sour cabbage and a puree
of split peas boiled down to the con-
sistency of stiff dough. Experiments on
this mass produce deplorable capers and
cause one to grunt nournfully. va
riety of this diet is found in Berlin.
You substitute boiled balls of dough
and Indifferent prunes for the peas and
cabbage, and you have the dish pepu-
larly termed 1.-THE Silesian kingdom Of
heaven. . Gold cells. imbedded in a
translucid, glutinous substance, figure
in all worlsmen' g taverns, while roast
goose is de rigueur for all solemnities
dainty which we have recently
met with in Berlin recalled Darwin's
remark that hardly any experiment is
go absurd as not to be worth trying"
1t consisted of finely powdered horse
radish served up with frozen whipped
cream.