Click here if you're almost 100% German and have no use for those other puny nationalities!

[fudge stripe cookays]

Face it kids. Bratwurst, Hefeweissen, and oom-pah music put your lame St. Paddys' Day to shame!

Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles...

fsc <-- off to find my tuba and lederhosen

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

1. Deutschland, uber alles...

There's a song in that!

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Ya think?

But it needs more tuba! :D

[asthmaticeog]

2. I'm German! But I'm also Jewish.

Let's talk about identity crises! :hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Yikes! Now there's a tough one.

Kind of like the kid of a friend of mine. She's Jewish. The kid's dad is Muslim. Freud would have a field day with him!

Nice to see you, untermensch! :hi:

[regnaD kciN]

69. You think that's bad...?

I'm half Russian Jewish, one-quarter German (with a stopover in Poland for a few decades), one-eighth Scandinavian (mainly Danish), and one-eighth Scots-Irish (a branch of the O'Neills and MacNeils from the Isle of Man). That's right...I'm part German and Jewish, part Russian and Polish, and part Viking and Celt. I persecute myself in my spare time. :shrug:

[Karenca]

6. me too....nt

[Burma Jones]

9. I married a German Jew

Her Dad was born in Germany, 1937, fled 1938. I speak enough German to tell a few jokes. Also, Some of my Family fought the Nazis. It helped them get over their Daughter marrying a Gentile.....

[Susang]

17. So is BatBoy!

Even funnier, he was raised as a Christian Scientist! :wow:

[fudge stripe cookays]

19. No wonder that boy is so confused!

I'm surprised he lets you go to the doctor! :P

[asthmaticeog]

25. Wow, either way that's a low survival rate. Kudos to him for being alive!

:D

[Susang]

28. You have no idea

After all, he has to live with me! }(

[Madrone]

5. I am almost 100% German.

The only speculation is whether or not there's 5-10% English floating around in there somewhere.

How'd being almost 100% *anything* happen as a 4th gen American, I have NO idea.

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. Yeah...we are Heinz 57 nation!

I'm about 1/16 French and 1/16 English, but the rest is almost completely Kraut!

One bunch came over in the 1700s (Pennsylvania Dutch), several in the 1800s (somewhere in Hesse und Schleswig Holstein), and the last couple through Ellis Island in 1903 (Gladbeck).

[xmas74]

8. My daughter's father is 100% German.

He's the first generation in his family born in the US but I'm the one who was raised w/ the food. (I'm originally from Wisconsin and Missouri has its share of old German towns.)

He won't touch any kind of German cooking. If it's not fried chicken or a honking steak he doesn't want it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. My mother is seriously German.

And HATES all things German. ESPECIALLY German food. I think part of it is Nazi guilt. The rest of it I associate with my great grandmother.

Mom was raised in Belleville (outside St. Louis), and spent lots of time with her German Catholic grandmother, who was from the old country. A mean, Teutonic battle-axe. Who cooked all her food in the same grease so that it all tasted exactly the same.

Plus, my grandfather forced her to eat food she hated. To this day, she can't look a potato pancake in the face. I love them. I have grown to love German food in the last 8 years.

[xmas74]

26. Missouri has many German towns

and you can find a number of festivals in the fall.

Her father won't eat it because he's the type that finds places like McDonalds to be "upscale dining." There's the whole Nazi thing too-but he never sounded that guilty over it. Towards the end of our relationship he was really into the fact that his grandfather was a member of the party.

Potato pancake-I'd love to eat one right now! That sounds so good.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. Visconsin ist ja super!

Vhich part?

I have ancestry in Rock County and in New Holstein (go figure on that one...they left Schleswig Holstein for New Holstein. THERE'S a no brainer!)

[xmas74]

27. Southeast.

I'm from Kenosha but have also lived near Warsaw. (I actually lived in Medford and Colby for a bit but it's easier for people to place Warsaw.)

One of my grandfathers was from White Lake. Closest town is Antigo. And my other was from Rhinelander.

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. I'm researching some folks in Rhinelander.

Plus, I've got a few in Racine, and some in Wausau (is there really a Warsaw? I looked for it on the map because a cousin told me that a family branch had ended up in Warsaw-- They had misheard it-- it was actually Wausau)

:D

[xmas74]

35. It's actually Wausau.

I was typing and listening to a friend on the phone at the same time last night. My friend lives in Warsaw, MO and was telling me about something happening over there. (An arrest not too far from there in Deepwater).

I hate that! If I type and talk at the same time parts of my convo seep in!

[fudge stripe cookays]

37. Don't worry. I do that too.

The MS sometimes makes my brain short circuit a bit.

[Burma Jones]

11. I've done Oktoberfest in Milwaukee

and St. Patricks in Chicago, New York and Boston......

St. Patricks Day by a mile.......and I'm Scots-Irish, so the whole "Saint" thing isn't my bag.

Irish party music beats German party music any day of the week. I like the Irish Whiskey. I like Guinness. I detest the Chicken Dance...

Of course, Mardi Gras kicks both their asses...........

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. Begone, you slanderer of German tradition!

Get thee to a Green Beer celebration and stop polluting my celebration of Teuton Might! :P

[sasquatch]

12. Third Generation Swabian-Bavarian here baby

We'll drink those Irish bastards under the damned table.
:toast:
If not at least our food is better.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Woo hoo!

:woohoo:

Strudel baby! And Schwarzwalder kirschtorte! :woohoo:

[cwydro]

13. Got gut Bier too!

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. Franziskaner

schmeckt besonders gut! :9

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. Ja!!!!!!

[Susang]

21. I'm Polish

When's the invasion? :P

[fudge stripe cookays]

23. First,

ve must annex the Sudetenland. Don't worry. Your time is coming, fraulein. :P

[XNASA]

22. My Mother was a Wolf.

I'm half German.

But I typically find that the 25% of me that's English is the part that sticks out the most.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Sticks out, huh?

I could make an extremely off color comment about your privates being cocky-- I mean Cockney! But I won't! :D

[trof]

29. I am of the Langobard tribe.

We were teutonic nomads before we conquered Italy and became Lombardians.

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. I saw some of your Longobardian brethren in Milan.

Never seen so many gorgeous men with gold hair and green eyes in my life!

Woof.

[derby378]

30. I'm half-Polish, so don't be gettin' any funny ideas...

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. See me threatening Susan G

with blitzkrieg above...

:hug: for you and Ginny. Thinking of you guys!

[hfojvt]

31. mostly, but thankfully not all

of my 16 great, great grandparents 6 are German, 3 Englisch, 3 Irish, 2 Swiss (German Swiss), 1 scotch, and 1 Dutch. Going further back there is some French and more Irish and Scotch.

[Critters2]

36. 1/4 German--again, really Pomeranian, but who's counting

but I grew up in a German neighborhood and a German ethnic church, have a German last name, knew my great-grands who spoke German, and generally feel more German than anything.

Can I be in your club?

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. Only if...

you keep your mouth shut about Chicago. If you can't play nice with the other kids, you'll have to go back to the puny league.

[Critters2]

40. Wanna go to the Von Steuben day parade?

At my first church (also very kraut) the youth group went to the "German Parade" in Chicago every summer. Followed by dinner at Zum Deutschen Eck. With Bavarian cream pie for dessert.

http://www.germanday.com/

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Cool.

They threw my granny a big surprise birthday party at Zum Deutschen Eck back for her 75th birthday party. She loved that place.

I miss the Black Forest. The Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte there was awesome.

[Critters2]

57. I lived about 2 blocks from Zum Deutschen Eck

and loved it. But the "soup of the day" was ALWAYS liver dumpling. The menu said "Ask about our soup of the day", so I would. And it was always liver dumpling. I could never figure why they didn't just put liver dumpling soup on the menu.

I only recently learned it closed, which was a surprise, because it was always busy. Maybe people wanted some other kind of soup. Liver dumpling is just nasty.

But their Bavarian cream pie rocked!

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. I had a German great-grandmother....

whose brothers were housepainters in Berlin. This was back in the 1850s, mind you.

I have no clue how it happened, but she ended up married to a Swiss guy and was living in the wilds (in those days) of Elburn, IL, when said husband up and left her and their son and returned to Switzerland to avoid being drafted for the Civil War.

Somehow, she and her son made it. I've always wondered how.

[fudge stripe cookays]

44. Wow. Cool!

we had a guy up and leave one of the ladies I'm researching just after the Civil War. They had two sons. But he was American. Just didn't feel like being married anymore, I guess!

We found him all these years later, living with his brother out in Nebraska. He gave the census taker an altered name. Because we know there was no one in the family by that name.

[ironflange]

41. I'm Ukrainian

And I'm a little tired of your boys marching through the Motherland. Please stop.

[fudge stripe cookays]

45. Gee, Ukrainian?

in Alberta? Who'd a thunk it? :silly:

[ironflange]

49. Ha! So is u4ic!

Come on, let's mix it up!

[fudge stripe cookays]

54. Well, in all fairness....

I do eat my weight in pierogies when I'm local, so I guess you guys can stay. You HAVE made at least one useful contribution to der Faderland.

[ironflange]

55. Come and get it!!!

(Some dumb Ukrainian designed this label)











No room for dessert, except maybe a bite of fudge striped cookays! :spank:

[fudge stripe cookays]

56. .

:rofl:

WHERE is that pierogy statue? Because it is crying out for a picture with me! And that sausage picture frightens me....

:D

[u4ic]

58. It's in Glendon, Alberta

Mundare has a huge Kubassa statue:




:P

[ironflange]

60. Don't forget the mushrooms!

Vilna, Alberta



These represent the little shrooms, pidpenky or something like that. They cook up a little slimy, but man are they good!

[ironflange]

59. It's in a little town, Glendon, Alberta

Northeast of Edmonton. That's me and ironflange-girl, last summer. We bought some genuine Glendon perogies and boy were they good. Here's another sausage:



Stawnichy. Good sausage. I haven't seen this myself, but if you're in Edmonton you can do the trip in one day and see the Vegreville Pysanka along the way.

edit: Wow, look at that, she beat me by one minute.

[fudge stripe cookays]

61. He he!

Cool!

You wacky Albertans and your silly statues!

reprehensor and I drove from Calgary to Burdett a few years ago, and of course had to make the pilgrimage to vulcan along the way. Unfortunately, everything was closed! We did manage to get some postcards though.

:D

[ironflange]

63. Vulcan hold a Star Trek convention each year

You're probably aware of that. A couple of years ago some local wise guy showed up dressed as Darth Vader. Needless to say, he was the hit of the show.

[u4ic]

66. Drove?

Heck, all you need to do is park your spacecraft at the UFO landing pad in St Paul:




:crazy:

[u4ic]

67. It's expected

At your time of life, you should be slowing down...


Isn't aging a bitch? :P

[Random_Australian]

43. Does bieng Australian count?

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. Nein.

Unless a buncha your German convict ancestors got together and said, "Hey! We wanna hang out with all the English convicts. Let's go to Australia!"

Then, you are welcome to join us in our France-invading, kraut-eating, lager-quaffing activities.

[charlie and algernon]

47. us italians capture Ethiopia for you and stall the allies for 2 years

and this is the thanks we get? don't come calling the next time you want to take over the world!

[Rob H.]

48. Mostly German

with some English on my dad's side, and Dutch, Native American, and Scots-Irish on my mom's. (Hence the little swatch of the German National Modern tartan in my avatar.)

I'm actually thinking about trying Rosetta Stone language-teaching software so I can learn some German, just because. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

53. German is a fun language to learn.

Because it is very much like English (even has indirect objects). It is also very logical.

Example:

krank = sick
krankenhaus = hospital
krankenwagen = ambulance
krankenschwester (sick sister) = nurse (because nurses used to be nuns)

However, the separable-prefix verbs kick my butt because a lot of them sound very similar to each other.

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. I don't even consider them nationalities - they're just "Nicht Leute".

[LostInAnomie]

51. I'm 6/8ths German

Darn my inferior Irish and Swedish great-grandparents!

[baldguy]

52. There's plenty deutschmarks here to earn

And German tarts are wunderschön
German beer is chemical-free
Germany's alreet with me
Sometimes I miss my river Tyne
But you're my pretty fraulein
Tonight we'll drink the old town dry
Keep wor spirit levels high

[TreasonousBastard]

62. Yeah. but thanks to that scumbag Hitler...

I suffer the praises of every other national and ethnic group without saying a thing, and then hear the ultimate insult:

"What's Westphalian ham?"

They think Italians know about cheesecake and sausage, Irish and Poles know about potatoes, the English and Belgians can make chocolate, and the French can make a good stew. How little they know-- these countries all as good with that stuff as they are at making cars. I'll give the Japanese points for sushi, though-- any self-respecting German would run as far from raw fish as from an ear of corn.

And Mexicans can brew beer?

Germans are the first or second largest ethnic group in the country, depending on who's counting, but we don't get no respect. Maybe it's the tubas or the lederhosen putting everyone off, but no one complains about the far more offensive bagpipes and kilts.

Just got through a nasty, wet snowstorm here, so give me a plate of Rippchen, a Kartoffelklopse on red cabbage and a good noodle pudding for dessert and I can sleep comfortably.

[fudge stripe cookays]

64. That's when you remind them...

that the filthy schweinhund vas an Osterreicher!

Grrrr...

Kartoffelklopse, das schmeckt gut!

[datasuspect]

65. ich bin untermensch

ich habe kein Deutsche blut.

[fudge stripe cookays]

70. More's the pity for you, untermensch.

EVERYONE wants to be us! :D

[BreweryYardRat]

68. The German/English part of my genes causes paranoia, bad skin, and premature senility.

Fuck that.

German culture's just fine, though.

[ulysses]

71. about half of both sides of the family

The rest is Scots.

[achtung_circus]

72. In 1733 my German ancestor arrived in Philadelphia

from the Palatine. Since then it has been a steady cross-breeding program.

Genetically it is known as heterosis, or hybrid vigour.

Those purebreds can't compete.