We had some visitors over from Germany and they could not believe what they were seeing. "Why do you have all of those wires?" was the general comment.
Very smug for Marshall Plan receipients.
They could've been a suburb of Moscow.
I understand most all of Europe has had a nasty winter storm lately. Almost of hurricane strength. People died.
Oh, and the standard trick for Germans visiting is to take a slice of our white pappy bread, roll it up into a 1/2 inch ball and comment on the food value compared to German black bread, some of which comes in cans. Very dense and I suppose nutritious.
But then again such good bread was fed to only the uberrace in a certain, not so long ago part of dark German history... ... and that was cut with sawdust unless you were in the army on the Russian front. It all depends on your point of view.
One more thought. I had a German exchange student when in highschool. He ate apples from the bottom up. -nothing left but the stem. He'd look proud when finished. I asked him, " did you know the seeds contained arsnic?" ...might explain some things.
