Halloween is not a big deal here. People were dressed up, but I didn't see anyone trick-or-treating in my neighborhood. October 31 and November 1 are holidays and all of the schools were closed the entire week for the fall break so most people took the long weekend to travel.
Even though Halloween isn't a big celebration, they do love the pumpkin.
Last weekend, Damian and I went to a restaurant and ordered everything from the "Kürbiskarte" aka "Pumpkin Menu"
Yummy!
Halloween celebration in the U.S. trumps that from here, but Christmas may be a different story. For several weeks, the small grocery stores have slowly started to fill all imaginable free space with Christmas chocolates and Christmas beer. It's often difficult to get through some aisles.
Here is one aisle at the small local grocery store were I go
All of that is Christmas chocolates and there is more than just this in my little grocery store!
Right behind the Santa Claus chocolates, they sell vats (800g) of Nutella!
Here were two delicious Christmas beers that I tried recently.
Germans are so much healthier than Americans yet they have the 2nd highest beer consumption per capita (Czech Republic is first, U.S.A is 12th, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita) and over double the annual per capita chocolate consumption than the U.S. (11.39 kg for Germany vs. 5.09 kg for U.S. http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/17/who-consumes-the-most-chocolate/)
In a few weeks, Tübingen will be hosting their famous Chocolate Festival and their Christmas Market. I'll make sure to post pictures!
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