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Originally Posted by Mohoender
about these heavy dark brew:
- If you don't pay enough attention you can confuse them for your meal.  |
One of my favorite memories of Greenweek (Ger:Grunwache?)-- a Berlin agricultural show that I attended in Feb. '91-- was of stopping at the Great Britain exhibit. I had a super-moist, perfectly seasoned, roast beef sandwich in one hand and a Guinness in the other. Mighty nice!
Nearly every country in Western Europe was there, advertising their food & drink products. I sampled a lot. At the France booth with Calvados, there was a fellow yelling "I'm buying" in English. Seems he had been a French PW of the Germans in WW2, and most of the English-speakers there were US servicemen from the Berlin Brigade. So, he wanted to reward the GIs.
After that, my memory is pretty fuzzy.
On the subject of Russians, I met some selling their helmets and Guards badges to the tourists near the Brandenburg Gate.