Sausage Fest
by Ryan Koya Atanasov
I’ve been here in Cologne for more than 2 weeks now and I have already sworn off sausages for life. I had no idea how much a part of almost every meal sausages are here in Germany.
For the past two weeks, I have had at least one type of sausage everyday. There were even a couple of times when I had a meal at breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time and all these meals featured a sausage of some sorts. I’m not saying they’re not delicious, because they are. Even the gross sounding blood sausages that my friend’s grandparents served us and that I was forced to eat in order not to seem rude were surprisingly delicious.
However, the idea of eating some sort of sausage everyday can be disturbing to me since I am not used to all these different types of sausages and we were not really taught to appreciate sausages in Russia.
It is interesting though, just how many ways all these different types of sausages can be served and eaten. I’ve had sausages served with pretzel, sweet mustard and beer. Then there was also this meal I ate which had a sausage, a portion of mashed apples and a kind of gravy-like sauce. We were also served pasta with bits of sausages, potatoes and bacon at a certain restaurant, while in another we order a kind of sausage served with soup and vegetables.
Ok, so they do taste good and the variety can be interesting. But celebrating a Sausage Fest is kind of over the top don’t you think? There was also a sausage fest held in a town near Cologne which we visited and it was there that I have seen the most number of sausages I ever saw in my entire life.
It was fun though, and the food, especially the sausages, was great. But after this trip, I’ll probably lay of the sausages for a very long time.