There’s an English report on the Deutsche Welle site about the Currywurst (curry sausage) museum in Berlin.

bq. A skinless pork sausage smothered in curry-laced ketchup, currywurst is sometimes served whole but most often chopped into bite-sized morsels and eaten off a flimsy paper plate. It costs about €2.50 ($2.65).

This is a strange thing. I haven’t had one for years but in my memory, first the chopped sausage is put in the carton, then it’s covered with tomato sauce, then curry powder is sprinkled on top. Things may have changed, though.

A museum to the currywurst is to open on 30 March 2006. More details will be revealed on 30 June 2005.

Zum Thema des Currywurstmuseums bietet sich die Lektüre des Fastfood Freunde-Blogs an. Hier zum Thema Currywurstmuseum.

Hier erfährt man z.B., wie man bei McDonalds eine Apfeltasche verlustfrei isst (von Thomas Jungbluth, einem der acht Blogger):

bq. Zunächst einmal: Niemals. Niemals, eine Apfeltasche essen, die frisch zubereitet wurde, weil nicht genügend auf Vorrat bereitgehalten wurden (und es werden selten genügend auf Vorrat gehalten). Das Innere einer frisch zubereiteten Apfeltasche hat die Brennkraft von Lava und betäubt die Geschmacksnerven für etwa 24 Stunden. Mindestens 30 Minuten muss eine solche Apfeltasche abkühlen.

bq. Dann wird sie senkrecht gehalten, damit die Füllung nach unten rutschen kann. Man isst nun oben vorsichtig eine erste Öffnung in den Teig. Dann dreht man sie in die andere Richtung senkrecht, Öffnung nach unten, und saugt erste Teile der Füllung aus der Teighülle. Wenn Sie flach ist, kann der Teig dann in kleinen Bissen verzehrt werden. Das letzte Drittel (oder Viertel) wird komplett gegessen.

(Über Mosaikum)

In an important discussion about doughnuts on an ITI list, Herbert Eppel‘s Google search gave me a useful link :

Linguist Jürgen Eichhoff, writing in the academic journal Monatshefte, confirms there was no flub on Kennedy’s part. “‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ is not only correct,” he says, “but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say.”

Thank goodness for that! It’s amazing what hordes of people who don’t speak a word of German love to jump on that bandwagon.

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If one is to believe the Beck Verlag website, the new German-English volume of Dietl’s law dictionary has appeared in book form and the CD-ROM is promised for the end of July 2005.

Sabine Cretella’s blog, mainly in Italian, but possibly also in English and German (thanks to Sonja).

If a German colleague of yours had a website advertising translations into English, and that colleague used an incorrect word as a big heading, what would you do? Invented example (although I think I’ve seen it): if someone wrote “Right” instead of “Law” as a specialization?

This should be a change from reports about Fürth.

Here is a mural in Upminster Library showing the history and famous inhabitants of Upminster:

This is the work of Terry Ffyffe (sic), an erstwhile Australian. The most interesting famous person, apart from Ian Dury on the right, is William Derham (18th century vicar and scientist).

For studies of the speed of sound (published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), Derham used a pair of synchronised pocket watches, had his friends fire shotguns at distant visible locations (often neighbouring churches), and observed the interval between the flash and the arrival of the sound with his telescopes and a half-second pendulum up the tower of St.Laurence’s (the doors that he inserted on the south side of the church tower are still visible).

I have most been able to impress with General Oglethorpe, though (O’s parents are buried in St. James’, Piccadilly, but I was unable to locate the plaque to them on a recent visit).

Further images of Upminster: a disappointing Chinese takeaway:

Small supermarket:

Gardening centre, actually not in Upminster but South Ockendon: