Closing in on two centuries, the people of Germany are serving as modern day paragons of how to have a good time, giving a resounding credo to the age old adage "let's drink and be merry." Although Oktoberfest entails much drinking, this is a festival that not only celebrates liquid libations, excellent eats and melodic music-Oktoberfest celebrates and affirms the importance of the very fiber that holds communities together-the people.
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10. Everything that anyone has to say about anything suddenly makes the most profound sense 9. You find yourself "getting down" to Ashlee Simpson 8. The taste of the drink doesn't matter anymore as long as it contains alcohol 7. The chair you're sitting on is magically getting smaller, causing you to fall down more frequently 6.
So...what fare compliments an Oktoberfest beer the best? At the Munich Oktoberfest, food is served in heaping portions: oxen and whole chickens are spit-roasted and myriad sausages are steamed and served with sauerkraut and onions. Closer to Michigan, at the Cincinnati Oktoberfest they offer up their own rendition of the German fare with chicken kabobs, alpine nuts, Barleycorn's fried eggplant, chicken wings pretzels con queso, Octoberfest chicken, super bratwurst, mett potato pancake German egg roll, sauerkraut balls, goetta corn dog, chicken reuben, seafood platter, bratwurst, mettwurst, bier wurst, weiner goetta patty, omlet potato salad, das reuben and pretzel haus Bratwurst, mettwurst, reuben sandwich and a pickle on a stick-this is just a slim portion of the gargantuan menu that Ohio's Oktoberfest is offering.
Ever have someone ask/tell you to "mind your p's and q's"? What exactly do the p's and q's stand for? One theory is that the phrase comes from customers who have had too much to drink at a pub/bar and start acting a bit rowdy. The bartender would then ask the said customer to mind his/her pints and quarts.
The Rathskeller Bar, otherwise known as "The Rat" to University of Detroit- Mercy students and faculty, joins in on the Oktoberfest celebrations, providing live bands and unique renditions to the much-loved German beer. This liquid libation station boasts the stature of being the only on-campus bar in the entire state of Michigan.
Future traveling business men and women take notice. Students traveling abroad, pay attention as well. A great way to break the ice and learn about another culture while in a different country is to make the citizens of said country feel as if you are interested in their culture-and what better way to show off your social curiosity than attempting to speak their language while ordering a drink? Here's how to order one in the following languages: German Ein Bier, bitte (Ine beer, bitt-uh) Swedish En öl, tack (Ehn irl, tahk) Italian Una birra, per favore (Oo-na beer-ra, pair fa-vo-re) Japanese Bee-ru ip-pon ku-da-sai Spanish (Lat.
I NEVER This is a great game for a group of close friends or people who really like to share hints of their dark pasts. Only supplies are people with enquiring minds and beer. You probably won't get drunk playing this but it's a great ice-breaker for a party.
Perhaps the single biggest difference between a bar and a brewery is the fact that at a brewery you will get the freshest quality of beer-mainly due to the on-site brewmaster that cares less about the quantity of beer he/she brews, as opposed to the other option-mass produced with poor quality.