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<\/a><\/p>\nI know, I know, it\u2019s plane food, not German food, but seriously\u2026 they call that a salad??<\/p>\n
We arrived in Munich around 8:30am, and were at Oktoberfest<\/span><\/strong> by 10:00am. After seeing all the excitement on the way to hotel, we couldn\u2019t resist diving in! We grabbed the first thing we saw to eat, which happened to be a giant pretzel. I ended up eating a lot<\/em> of giant pretzels\u2026 they\u2019re everywhere!<\/p>\n But right after the pretzel, we headed to the beer tents, where we remained for most of the day. And if you aren\u2019t a fan of beer, don\u2019t bother visiting Oktoberfest<\/strong><\/em>\u2026 but luckily, Hubbs is a fan. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n \u2026as am I.<\/p>\n Beers are only served in liters and there isn\u2019t much variety in the type offered.<\/p>\n **FUN FACT ALERT<\/span>**<\/p>\n In Germany, we were told there is a purity law that states only water, hops and barley can be used in making beer. Because of this, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a wide variety of choices like there is in the US, but at least the beer they make is YUMMY, so you don\u2019t need a wide variety \ud83d\ude42 Anyone from Germany? Can you confirm that story for me?<\/p>\n Anyways, some of the tents served food, but the menus were slightly difficult to decipher.<\/p>\n and we ended up eating a lot of rotisserie chicken.<\/p>\n These guys were tasty<\/strong><\/span>! By habit I would peel off the skin to eat the meat, but was continuously scolded by our new German and Italian friends that I was discarding the best part.<\/p>\n I\u2019m doing the best I can to focus on the food & beer<\/span> drinks of the trip, but I have to stray for a moment and highlight the awesome-ness that is the inside of the beer tents. First of all, they are HUGE<\/span><\/strong> and we estimated the large ones hold roughly 8000-9000 people. There is a live band playing and people from all over the world singing, dancing and chatting together. It was one of the coolest experiences I\u2019ve ever had<\/span>.<\/p>\n I wasn\u2019t going to, but I have to try and post this video. The camera work might make you sick, but it was during the only time we heard a song we recognized and had to capture it on film! I hope it works \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Ok, back to the food! Unfortunately it didn\u2019t take too long for me to realize that German food wasn\u2019t my favorite. It\u2019s all very heavy<\/span><\/strong>, mostly meat and potatoes, and didn\u2019t sit well with my stomach.<\/p>\n Here are the dinners we ate at one of the authentic restaurants\u2026<\/p>\n Everything tasted like an odd form of pot roast. I mentally beat myself up because I like to be adventurous and wanted to fully sink myself into the German culture\u2026 but my stomach had other plans. Everywhere we went, the choice was meat and potatoes<\/em>, or potatoes and meat<\/em>.<\/p>\n Even breakfast consisted of a wide variety of meats. Of course, Hubbs thought this was just fine.<\/p>\n I finally found an authentic restaurant that offered a veggie<\/span> plate. Despite the waitress looking at me with disappointment when I ordered it, I did so, but they managed to even make veggies feel heavy.<\/p>\n The bread soup was pretty good though \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The food in Germany was consistent, and my stomach just wasn\u2019t having it. I felt like I lost 10 pounds during this time, despite the beer and gelato \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n However, after 4 days in Munich, we hopped a train to spend a few days in Salzburg, Austria (read about it here!<\/a>) where the food choices were much broader! Stay tuned, tomorrow I\u2019ll dive into our Austrian eats!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n