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 Apple wine, only for
Frankfurter addicts by Weissdorn
Keep in mind that this stuff for the untrained tongue will taste like vinegar to some, or brake degreaser to others. If any true Frankfurters bother to read this page they will be insulted.
This wine is traditionally made from Speierling Apples, small, sour tasting apples that produce lots of sugar acid when it ferments, to give the wine it's characteristic taste.
There are different forms of this product, including Cidre, which is cut apple wine with lower alcohol content. The real McCoy has approximately 5.8% alcohol, which puts it near the alcohol content of German beer. What most people don't realise is that apple wine doesn't stop fermenting when it hits your stomach, and can even turn the food you just ate into alcohol too, especially if you have eaten anything sour.
The good and bad news: Apple Wine is a double-whammy drink.
They serve it traditionally in the glasses like in the picture, which are quarter liter glasses - two glasses and you need to take a taxi home.
For those who aspire to become one of the natives, you can ween yourself into liking it by ordering a "Zus-ge-spritz-ter" or half wine, half 7-UP. Then move on to "Zower-ge-spritz-ter" or half wine, half soda water. Then you can graduate to the real thing. Frankfurters can hardly wait until Fall, when they can finally order "Rauscher". Rausch is the German word for "stoned", or for Apple Juice that has just turned into wine. Whoever can drink a half a liter of Rauscher and walk a straight line can honestly claim he cannot get drunk.
Doctors claim that a few glasses every now and then are actually healthy, because the acid content is high enough to kill virus-loaded bacteria, helicopter bacteria, fungus, mold and other forms of alien life in your intestines. Leave a Comment
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 Frankfurt Green Sauce tastes
better than it looks by Weissdorn
It tastes so good, that it's even rumored that it was Johann von Goethe's favorite dish. Real Frankfurter Green Sauce is made from at least 7 herbes, including parsely, chives, dill, chervil, pumpernickel, sorrel and borageo. Then they add fresh plain yoghurt, curds (cottage cheese), sour creme, a dab of mayonaise and a spoon full of mustard and a touch of horse radish, plus salt and pepper and a dash of white wine vinegar.
Once you try it, you'll never forget it, and now I committed a Frankfurter crime - I spilled the beans and told you the receipe. Leave a Comment
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 by christine.j
The picture here is from a demonstration asking for better schools and more teachers. While parents and teachers were marching, waving their banners, there were also some kids marching along. They were shouting" School's out! School's out!"
Somehow I think they didn't quite understand what this was all about... Leave a Comment
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 Apple Wine Bembel by Weissdorn
They come in all sizes - from ½ to 3 liter size. The Hessians have their own colloquial phrases for them, so you can order like the locals as follows:
Bembel-shaw = ½ liter
Oy! = 1 liter
Oy-yoy! = 1-½ liters
Oy-yoy-yoy! = 2 liters
Oy-yoy-yoy-yoy! = 3 liters Leave a Comment
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If you are fortunate enough to be working in Germany and you have a birthday that falls on a work day, then you are expected to bring in a birthday cake to the office. You might also be expected to take your colleagues for a drink after work to celebrate. And yes, you pay! But its certainly considered rude not to at least bring a cake on your birthday! Leave a Comment
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 Frankfurt Christmas sweets -
Bethmännchen by Trekki
Bethmännchen (literally translated into little Bethmann, albeit more of these) is a very much delicious pastry which we eat for Christmas. It consists of marzipan, almonds, sugar, flour, egg and rosewater, all formed to small balls, which are decorated with almond halves, glazed with egg yolk and then baked.
The name derives from an old family, local to Frankfurt. Their pastry chef Jean Jacques Gautenier has developed the recipe in 1838, at least is what legend says. Originally they are said to have four almonds, one for each of the Bethmann sons Moritz, Alexander, Karl and Heinrich and that after Heinrich’s death in 1845, one almond was left aside. However, this is what legends say, and they might be even older, as the father Simon Moritz von Bethmann died already in 1826.
Well, legend or not – they are very much delicious and a perfect gift to bring back home, in case you are at Frankfurt during Christmas times :-)
I should mention that I took the photo and then they vanished to please my tastes and stomach, and only then I transferred the photos to my computer.... When I realised that I was a bit out of focus... it was too late. Sorry ! Leave a Comment
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It is only open during Spring/Summer, whilst the weather is still warm. Its also one of the few bars to make use of the park running along the river, the Maincafý is no more than a bunch of tables and a beertap in a park. It's an incredibly popular spot on warm nights, when hundreds of people lounge around on the grass, Weissbier in hand, to watch the sun set behind the skyscrapers and the pretty lights come on. Beer, cocktails and nachos are available.
Its mostly locals that go here and the tourists don't yet know about it. This is chilling out in Summer, Frankfurt-style. All ages, all people, all welcome. Enjoy !! :0)
You'll find it on the southern Main bank, near the Architecture Museum and between the Untermainbrýcke and Holbeinsteg bridge. Leave a Comment
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 by chicabonita
Around Roemer you find everything which is typical for a German Christmas Market. A lot of stands selling Gluehwine, sausages and other food and drinks.
As you are in Frankfurt you can also get hot aeppler. I tasted it last year for the first time and it was quite good, a nice change to gluehwine ... Leave a Comment
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 by icunme
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Offenbach is a large city that practically forms a part of Frankfurt, but stubbornly refuses to join it. There is a history of antagonism between the two cities, and it lingers to this day. They don't like each other at all, and although you can live in Offenbach and see Frankfurt on the other side of the river, they see themselves as two distinct identities.
When Frankfurt was an Imperial city, those who were refused entry inside its city walls took refuge in Offenbach. All the outcasts: the immigrants, the poor, the Jews and the others not welcome inside Frankfurt lived here, and the difference between the two cities remains today.
Frankfurt's city center can be seen from all over Offenbach with its shiny skyscraper's advertising their wealth across the river. In comparison Offenbach is a scruffy and indistiguished suburban sprawl. Amazingly, though, Offenbach ends up being even more cosmipolitan than it's neighbour, with an even higher proportion of foreigners in its population than even Frankfurt itself. Leave a Comment
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