The sad part is, the food actually sounds good

[ellid]

Where John McCain went while Barack Obama visited Berlin.

Like I said, the food at Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant looks pretty good, at least to this German girl from Pennsylvania. But as a campaign stop, this really doesn't compare...what were his handlers thinking?

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[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Dammit, E, now I'm craving bratwurst!

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Spaetzle sounds good to me.

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm, schnitzel...

It's a step up from Wilkes-Barre?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Maybe he wanted the famous half-pound creampuff?

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

Those creampuffs are amazing. Schmidt's is also pretty damn good. You used to be able to buy their brats in local Columbus stores.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Like I said, the food looks tasty...:)

[varianor.livejournal.com]

The barmaid has nice cleavage! By today's standards, she's also incredibly conservatively dressed. One wonders - maybe McCain is making a subtle point here? A presidential candidate making an address in Germany to the American public should really be playing Hunt-the-Sausage at a pub?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Better that than a campaign appearance at Cooper's Lake Campground in, oh, about a week...I wonder if they'd make him, his entourage, and his Secret Service detail wear "a reasonable attempt at medieval clothing"?

[tree_and_leaf]

You know, it's incredibly strange to read that menu from a German perspective (or at least German-habituated one). Most of it sounds good, but... liable to raise German eyebrows (sauerkraut and sausage-meat balls fried in batter? And the Brewmaster fish is actually British)†

It's also quite funny that although the waitress is wearing quite an authentic looking dirndl, she nevertheless looks awfully American. It's partly the hair, and partly the body language.

† Though you do get dishes called similar names over here, they generally come with beer sauce rather than batter - that's a British thing.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

It's very Americanized, and very typical of Midwestern German cooking. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, a few hours to East, and these dishes sound like home cooking to me.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I used to live in Columbus, and it's pretty good, but yeah, a sausage house in Ohio versus the Middle East and Berlin. Which one is more presidential?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether you trust them damn foreigners or a good old American institution. *rolls eyes*

Seriously - I think this may be the "Mike Dukakis in a tank" moment of this year's campaign.

[juliannajoyful.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't think campaign stumping in Europe is particularly Presidential, unless there's an office he can hold over there.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

He's thinking all the major media are following Obama around so no one would notice.