Odd

[yakalskovich]

Tomorrow is St. Nicholas' day, which doubles as a little pre-Christmas here in Germany. Kids get sweets, in their shoes, in the morning, traditionally.

Never mind 'strange', it's tradition.

Somebody's put an anonymous St. Nicholas' gift onto my doorknob today; a rather posh gift bag containing nuts, tangerines, and--

-- a bunch of really fresh nice hot chilies.

Well, I like them. It means that wiebke  and cracicotus  will be fed banana chili with fresh chili, next weekend when they come to stay.

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I am so excited about visiting. I will be sending a note with the rough time our train arrives. We will be able to walk to your flat on our own, if that works better. Caleb is very good finding places!

[yakalskovich]

I'll collect you from the S-Bahn. Rosenheimer Platz. If you tell me when you arrive in Munich, I can lurk on the top of the forwards elevator and get you from there. That's the customary procedure and works very well.

I look forwards to you as well! There's a new Weihnachtsmarkt in the gay area of the city, called 'Pink Christmas' - we totally have to go there!

[woelfle.livejournal.com]

Hmm yummy anonymous gifts - and reminds me: I have to run to the supermarket to get two big fat Schokonikoläuse for my flatmates. :-D

[yakalskovich]

There was one of those in my anony!gift as well...

[halfwest.livejournal.com]

It somehow strikes me as unusual that you eat hot chilies in Germany.

Call it cultural ignorance.

My sister and I built a plywood box and planted chilies in it. We've STILL got some, had more than we could POSSIBLY eat with... oh wow... was it I think 12 plants we had? Our box is 3 feet by two feet by about a foot and a half deep with four tiny pockets on the sides we put marigolds in.

Also we don't celebrate St. Nicholas day here. I know SOME people do, though I've only heard of it in really religious schools, never had any of my public school friends mention it. It's a cute idea though.

Oh, I love this season!! It's even snowing today!!!

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Oh, we like international, even global, cuisine just as much as anybody. We even have an Ethiopian restaurant nearby. Ethiopian is said to be the very spiciest cuisine of the whole world. Thomas the Metropolitan spent parts of his childhood there, and has such nice horror stories...

I used to keep a chili plant as well, on my kitchen windowsill, but it died this summer. *sniff*