Saturday, April 17, 2010

Herrengedeck


Deutsche Welle keeps improving my German language ability. What is a "Man's menu," or "Herrengedeck?" Beer and schnapps.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

In English, a shot and a beer is called a "boilermaker" , for reasons that seem unclear (a boilermaker is a person who builds steam boilers, as for locomotives).

K

J said...

A workingman's order.

Anonymous said...

Yes, this combination has a very "blue collar" image in the US. At this point it is old fashioned too - almost nobody drinks this anymore.


K