r/mildyinteresting • • 11h ago

humankind hiccups 😅 Germans love their meat raw

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u/Drapausa 11h ago edited 8h ago
  1. Mett is great 2. Not every German eats or likes this. 3. It's fairly regional

Edit: because people were asking: I'm from Frankonia (Bavaria) and Mett wasn't a common thing for me. Yes, you could get it, but it wasn't something you'd see a lot.

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u/howreudoin 10h ago

Mettbrötchen are peak amazing.

Along with onions, salt, and pepper, just like on the picture. If you ever visit Germany, make sure to try out one.

Also keep in mind, those Brötchen are real bread – not soft toasts. (If you think there‘s no difference, try real bread first.)

Yes, not everyone likes them. That‘s true for every dish. But I, for one, just love them.

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u/deinemutter1969 8h ago

For me proper butter makes it even better. Fresh Brötchen is important too. I work in construction and sometimes, on special occasions we get like 1,5kg Mett for the four of us and have a feast. Love it

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u/Wise_Cryptographer19 7h ago

Especially the Mett breath is awesome and if you're sitting long enough in your breakroom Container it turns into mett-sauna xD

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u/chillicampari 2h ago

mett-sauna was not a word I was expecting to see today, but I did.

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u/das_Moppi 4h ago

The fine „Maurermarmelade“

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u/vajhar 7h ago

I wouldn't call wheat Brötchen real bread personally. Maybe whole grain but plain wheat Brötchen simply lack character

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u/deinemutter1969 6h ago

It's not the good and healthy stuff but it's the tasty combination. I wouldn't combine a wholegrain bread with mett somehow

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u/vajhar 6h ago

Gods no mett has to go on plain wheat Brötchen xD

I'm just pointing out Brötchen aren't real bread like the previous comment said. It's the right bread for the given task but not something I'd consider real bread like Bauernbrot or Schwarzbrot

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u/Boschkommmalher 5h ago

Depends. Pumpernickel could be awesome, could be terrible, but Mett with Dinkel-Roggen-Krustenbrot out of a wood fired stove is peak pleasure!

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u/kittyf0rman 2h ago

This depends on the region. In Baden-Württemberg for example wheat bread and bread rolls are the most common ones whereas rye bread and mixed grains are less eaten.

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u/AllegedlyLiterate 6h ago

Can I get some more clarification on the bread-toast distinction you’re making here? Do you just mean not stuff that comes from the grocery store or is it a shape-based distinction? Is a bakery loaf also not real bread? What about a non-loaf bread but from a cheap grocery store brand? 

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u/deinemutter1969 6h ago

Where are you from? Are you familiar with the german bread system?

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u/AllegedlyLiterate 5h ago

Canada. Given that I’ve asked about your bread reasoning you can assume I don’t already know. In English lots of different types of bread can be toast if you slice and toast it so maybe something is lost in translation here. 

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u/Jay_Quellin 5h ago

Yes , in Germany only a specific type of bread is called toast. But Germans typically don't know that this isn't the case in English because the word is English. It is the square soft sliced white wheat bread that comes in plastic bags from the supermarket and is used for sandwiches in North America. In Germany, this type of bread goes in the toaster. People usually don't eat it untoasted. And other bread typically doesn't go in the toaster. What Germans call "real" bread is much denser, with a hard crust and mostly darker and comes from a bakery. It's often, but not always, sourdough and made of rye. But there are many varieties.

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u/AllegedlyLiterate 5h ago

Okay so what about like a baguette? Is that just neither bread or toast? 

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u/profdrpoopybutt 4h ago

Baquette is denser and has a hard crust i.e. it's bread. 

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u/deinemutter1969 3h ago

I didn't want to be unpolite. It's just very complicated without sounding like a dick. Where ever I travelled there is no bread like at home and even these breadrolls that are the best for mett are quite unique eventhough they are the cheapest you get in a bakery. Bread is a bit of a religion over here and hard to explain

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u/puking_penis 5h ago

germans call sliced bread "toast" regardless of any previous encounter with a toaster and to me that's flat out nuts

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u/AllegedlyLiterate 5h ago

Okay so this person is just saying it can’t be sliced bread and assuming that means better bread but not factoring in for the possibility of a really crap roll

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u/puking_penis 5h ago

or a nice crisp sourdough pullman loaf

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u/CalmCelebration10 1h ago

What germans call toast isn't really bread.

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u/howreudoin 5h ago

I recommend visiting [r/brot](r/brot) to look at real (home-baked) bread. Delicious!

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u/Whoppertino 6h ago

Everyone has had "real bread". It's not some hard to find novelty...

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u/CalmCelebration10 1h ago

It is outside of Germany

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u/Double_Soup644 3h ago

Got once the hint to add something sweet like honey.

Works really well. But well, sweet and savory is just a match made for heaven.