Student food

I was thinking about the typical student food.

If I am in a hurry I often only cook pasta with ketchup or a pizza. I think these dishes are prepared very fast and they taste good. But you can´t eat pasta or pizza every day. So what do you cook when you are in a hurry and don´t want to spent too much time in the kitchen.Sometimes I eat in the canteen and I think the dishes there are often really good. I like it and it is not that expensive.

What do you think is a typical student dish and do you like the canteen dishes? I´m really curious what you like to cook:)

jenni

Delicious Gastronomic Specialities of the Ruhr Area

If you are a real ”Pottler” (= people who live in the Ruhr Area) you know the specialities. A bratwurst belongs to a soccer game like the soccer team. A curry-wurst ( a bratwurst cut in little pieces and covered with a chilly sauce) is the speciality known by everyone.

Real hardcore Pottler know specialities like the „Mantateller“, which consists of curry-wurst and french fries with ketchup and mayonnaise.

Another important food is the doner kebap, which is like a gyros pita. I know that the kebap is known nearly in every part of Germany, but I would assert that it is one of the main dishes in this area. Can you guess of another dish, which is very common for the Ruhr Area?

Very British – Salty, Strange Food

The British have the tendency to prepare unenjoyable meals – but is this really true or just a stereotype? I think there is a grain of truth in it. When I visited Britain, I was allowed to acquire a taste for British food. Next to „normal“ food like curry or french fries,

they have a great passion for salty food. They put salt and vinegar on everything that is eatable. Especially  potato-chips are covered by tons of salt and vinegar.

One funny thing is the fact that British people like gyros pita bread with french fries between the two slices of bread. Again, covered with vinegar.

Another vice of the English is to mix chocolate up with orange flavour. Nearly every known candy bar (e.g. Twix) is also available as a special with orange flavour. Why can’t they leave the chocolate on its own? Chocolate is such a gift and you should honor it.

But I have to admit that there is some English food that I like. I really love the traditional Sunday dinner, which consists of peas, baked beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, meat and Yorkshire pudding. Even if it is called „Yorkshire pudding“, you can guess that is no real pudding, it is a dish made from batter. Unfortunately it is  the only British dish that I like.

Maybe you can think of at least one delicious English dish! Please help me to refuse the stereotype of bad English food.

Little Money, Big Appetite – how to survive with a low budget?

Damn it! Don’t we all know the following situation? Its the end of the month again and all your money was spent for tuition fees, entrance fees for museums and opera, classical music or literature.

You have got 10€ left and a whole week to survive, your freezer only contains useless things like a few bottles of beer, butter, ketchup & mayonnaise, tabasco and the meal your mother brought you 2 days ago. What will you do? Eat cheap stuff, mostly sandwiches and drink water for the rest of the week? buy some delicious foods and reduce the amount you eat?

 Have you ever been so short on money that you had to think how to get through the next days? If not, imagine what you would do!

 by Tobias

Organic Food

More and more people want to improve their eating habits and want to live healthier. So some tend to buy organic food.  I think bio food becomes more popular.

Organic or bio food is produced without fertilizers, pesticides and other chemical aids. Animals that are breed on “bio-farms” don´t get antibiotics and growth hormones. So organic food ought to be chemical-free and it is said that it contains more vitamins than conventional food.  That also means that the taste can differ because no chemical substances are used to intensify the taste.

You can buy organic food in almost every supermarket but there are also special “bio or organic food supermarkets” which sell  only bio products. I think those special supermarkets occur more often since a few years.  It becomes more popular although it is usually more expensive than conventional food.

I sometimes buy bio products, I think it is healthier but also because there is no intensive lifestock farming on bio farms.  So bio products can offer you better quality and  a good conscience.

What do you think of organic food? Do you buy it and why?

jenni

Funny Food Facts

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Hallo Everybody!

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Food is a very exiting topic. In this blog we are talking about it the whole semester and it has never been boring. I would like to continue with a collection and discussion of funny food facts. Here is my example:

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What do you know about salt?

Most of us think that it is a common condiment which we use to make our food tastier. Only very few can do without it. Salt is so common that restaurants give it away for free. But it was not always like that. Nowadays it is very hard to imagine that salt was very expensive in the past. It was even so rare that it was often used as pay. And this is where the word salary comes from.

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I am looking forward to read which funny things about food you will tell us.

By Margarita

Sweet America!?!

American people are often stereotyped as the fattest people of the world. Even though this is not true, in every stereotype there is a grain of truth.When I think back to my time abroad in America, I remember lots of sweet food. When I went into an American groceries’ store for the first time, I was struck by the range of different kinds of sweets. For example, you can buy plain marshmallows, which consist mostly of sugar, and then different varieties with marshmallows. You can buy ‘’S’mores“, which are marshmallows between cookies and covered with chocolate and even some kinds of cereals have marshmallows in them. This is only one example of the American love of sweets.Even vegetables cannot be eaten on their own; the average American has to have a dip with them, for example dipping celery into peanut butter. If you want to eat fruit, you are faced with a range of dips, such as caramel, chocolate or sugar. I have not met a single American who eats his fruit without such a dip. I’ve gained some weight, because everywhere I went in America, I was confronted with sweets and food which consisted mostly of sugar and fat. But why are there such strange eating habits in this culture? Why do people eat so many sweets and gain so much weight, without trying to do something about it?

One problem could be the poverty. Unhealthy food and sweets are very cheap in America. If you want to buy healthy food you have to pay more money for it than we pay here in Germany. But this is only one possible explanation for the enormous number of different sweets in America.

Can you think of other explanations?

written by Ann Caterin Kuklinski

What the hell is this?

Hey everyone, I know long posts may rob your motivation so this is a really quick one. Just click on the picture, look at it closely and have a guess what this may be! A little advice: It is something served in the Asian area.

I demand more than 10 comments on this one, don’t be lazy and spend 2 minutes to explain!

by Tobias

EnLIGHTened Germany

Other countries, other customs – EnLIGHTened Germany?The light-products have ruled Germany for years and they are controlling almost the whole food market now. But before that we only had known light products like cigarettes (Lucky Strike Light) and Coke Light. But for some times there are thousands of these light products and it seems that they proliferate. Nowadays you can find light mayonnaise, light liverwurst, light chocolate marshmallows, light soda, light yoghurt, light pudding, if you are going into a groceries store. Nearly every offered non-light product has its counterpart as a light product. These light products suggest that it is more healthier to eat these products than normal food. But opinions are divided.Many experts believe that light products are cheating on our bodies, because your body needs special substances of content and if your body does not receive these substances, it sends the signal to eat more. Because of this evidence you eat more light products than normal ones. Additionally it can be that light products are not real “light” products because the term “light” is not patent-protected. So often these products are ineffective and very expensive. Studies have revealed that some products stimulate the production of  body fat. That means that in some cases you can gain more weight easily, if you use light products instead of normal ones.

Beside this, some ingredients of light products are suspected to activate cancer. But why is there such a boom of light products in the food market, if they have so many negative effects? Is this the desire of fitting better in our society by being thin? Why do so many people pay so much money for products, which are often more style than substance ?

written by Ann Caterin Kuklinski

Resolutions for the New Year

 

Hello everybody!!

2007 is nearly over, there are only few days until New Year’s Eve. This is the right time to think about our “gute Vorsätze” for the new year.

I am determined to change some of my eating habits:

Fist of all I am going to curb my passion for crisps. There are only few things you can eat which damage your body worse then them. Crisps contain no healthy ingredients at all instead they have a lot of fat. And they also contain 19 different substances which can cause cancer.

My second resolution is more general: I am going to eat more vegetables and fruits and also start to do sports again.

I am interested in your resolutions for the next year. They do not necessary have to do with food, you can just tell us what you are going to change in 2008.

 

By Margarita