I had a chocolate berliner, and a cheese bacon pretzel. Do they look authentic? Do they even makes these in Germany? If yes which regions are popular for these?

I had it in a restaurant called the German BrezelHaus, the kind of breads they had looked pretty authentic!

by ThatSick_Dude

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  1. Looks like what I would get if I order something chinese in a chinese restaurant in germany.

  2. I wouldn’t trust a place where you got served with a half eaten Berliner

  5. Not something you typically see in Germany, but also nothing I’d be surprised seeing in Germany either

  6. I am sorry, but that brown smear across the plate is just awful.

  7. Berliners are usually filled with jam. But they are also available with other fillings. You can’t really get real pretzels abroad, but they still look good. Hope everything tasted good.

  8. It looks decent. And yes, even here you can get cheese brezen. And Krapfen with chocolate filling. So from a Bavarian perspective I say I have seen less authentic stuff in countries closer to Germany.

  9. Berliner is traditionally filled with red jam, but other fillings are done too, including Nutella. The Bretzel seems to be shaped wrongly.

    Both are usually sold in bakeries as a snack, not in sit-down restaurants. But both look relatively well-made.

  10. Chocolate Berliner looks pretty good and like I would expect it, although I only knew them with jam inside and pudding so far, not sure. You would not often get it that fancy on a plate in a bistro in Germany, its more like a to-go in a bakery.

    Cheese Bacon Pretzel looks great! Again, not a bad thing, I only know this as a cooled down, to-go item in a bakery. Definitely common in Souther Germany.

    The breads in the third picture look great and I wondered if they’re real or not because they look really professional and textbook german bakery items. They would be presented a bit differently in a german bakery of course but otherwise look perfect.

    (all my non-professional opinion)

  11. Usually they don’t serve berliners on skidmarked plates. Kinda disgusting IMO

  12. Everybody complaining about these dishes being not in the most traditional form, I could get all of these pastries in my small village bakery… you’re all talking like we can’t change a thing or two.

    These dishes do look like they could be from Germany.

  13. I’ve never eaten a Berliner with a chocolate filling before. I usually only know them with jam.

  14. I’m sorry but a pseudo fine dining Berliner is the funniest shit I’ve seen in my life.

    Yes, we eat a lot of Berliner. But not served like this lol

    Both are meant to be eaten on the go out of a paper bag or at Kaffe trinken/Brotzeit at Home.

  15. Unfortunately is hard to make good German quality bread in India.

  16. this is extreme uncanny valley. It looks normal at first glance but at second glance nothing is even close to normal.

  17. Nothing too authentic, nothing too out of the ordinary, though.

  19. By itself, not terrible. Not something you’re gonna get in every bakery, but definitely something that you’re gonna find in some places.

    What cracks me up is the hilariously pretentious presentation. These aren’t things you’re typically going to get on a plate, these are takeaway foods that you are going to receive in a white or brown paper bag. You know, on the level of a sausage roll or something like that.

    I doubt you’re gonna find many places that will serve you any kind of Breze with herbs sprinkled over them for decoration, or a Berliner on a plate with a decorative sprinkle of whatever the red and green stuff in the corner there is.

    The overall selection of breads, pretzels and buns in the third image looks pretty decent though.

  20. It is not traditional but it would pass.

    (Plum Kompott instead chocolate and a pretzel without all and obatzda as sidedish to that pretzel.)

    Guten Appetit!

    Edit: You know what? Say the cook he should add one or two fried eggs on top of that pretzel before he throws it into the oven. Did eat that in some workplace cantine in the past and it was delicious.

  21. The bacon pretzels I see here (in Munich) don’t usually look quite like that, but it’s not too unusual either.

  23. seeing a krapfen plated like this made me laugh out loud 

  24. It’s quite close to what you can get here, apart from some slight details.

    The Berliner looks fine, we normally get them with a jam filling but I’m sure you could find them with chocolate filling at some fancy cafe.

    The pretzel/Bretzel looks also okay. Cheese bacon is actually a fairly common combination, especially at big chain bakeries like Yormas, Der Beck, Backwerk, Ditch and Le Crobag or at supermarkets. The green stuff on top is rather uncommon. Those are generally foods you get while running to your train or on your way to work.

    I hope you didn’t have to pay too much for these things. A Berliner + a cheese bacon Bretzel shouldn’t cost more than 5 euros at a random German train station 😂

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