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Post by neferetus on Oct 11, 2007 21:08:17 GMT -5
 Wurstfest is coming to New Braunfels, November 2nd, through the 10th! |
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Post by seguin on Oct 11, 2007 23:05:57 GMT -5
Sausages on a stick! Weird but funny...  |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 12, 2007 0:58:49 GMT -5
Sausages on a stick! Weird but funny... Well, it looks like the roll is there, at the bottom, iffen you want to get more traditinal-like, just slide it off the one and into the other. |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 15, 2007 21:02:02 GMT -5
Here's a little piece of New Braunfels history provided by Ted Cole. Thanks, Ted. Geez, I wonder why there wasn't some announcement here in town? I mean today being the anniversary, and all.
October 15 in Texas History
First state Sängerfest held in New Braunfels
On this day in 1853, the first state Sängerfest, or singers' festival, began in New Braunfels. After a successful Fourth of July celebration in 1853, the New Braunfels Germania male singing society invited similar organizations from Austin, San Antonio, and Sisterdale to a two-day festival held in New Braunfels on October 15 and 16, 1853.
Each group sang a cappella separately and joined together for works by Felix Mendelssohn and Heinrich Marschner. At the second Sängerfest, held in San Antonio in May 1854, when the societies formed the Texas State Sängerbund (Deutsch-Texanischer Sängerbund or German Texan Singers' League), participation extended to singers from Coletoville, La Grange, Indianola, and Victoria.
Succeeding Sängerfeste were held in New Braunfels and Fredericksburg and brought added members or increased musical sophistication. Despite interruptions caused by the Civil War and World War I, the Sängerfeste survived and continue to this day. Wherever held, the festivals became the impetus for expanded musical activity on the purely local level, while they themselves ceased to be the sole property of the Germans as progressively more outsiders participated in the concerts and attended them.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Oct 16, 2007 16:41:19 GMT -5
Sausages on a stick! Weird but funny... My LDL's are going up just thinking about Wurst... |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 26, 2007 13:04:27 GMT -5
 Seven days til Wurstfest! |
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Post by seguin on Oct 26, 2007 15:15:19 GMT -5
Sausages on a stick! Weird but funny... My LDL's are going up just thinking about Wurst... What´s LDL´s? |
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 26, 2007 15:15:49 GMT -5
Looks like a jolly good time ole boy!
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 26, 2007 15:18:05 GMT -5
My LDL's are going up just thinking about Wurst... What´s LDL´s? Something to do with cholesterol. Or do you Euros not have cholesterol? |
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Post by seguin on Oct 26, 2007 15:45:05 GMT -5
Something to do with cholesterol. Or do you Euros not have cholesterol? I see! - Nope, us Euros are all in tip-top shape, so we don´t have any problems with too much cholestorol...  - Just checked up on LDL. It´s a lipoprotein responsible for depositing cholestorol into the lining of the arteries. |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 26, 2007 16:51:40 GMT -5
I see! - Nope, us Euros are all in tip-top shape, so we don´t have any problems with too much cholestorol... - ;D |
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 26, 2007 17:42:46 GMT -5
Something to do with cholesterol. Or do you Euros not have cholesterol? I see! - Nope, us Euros are all in tip-top shape, so we don´t have any problems with too much cholestorol... Thats cause you people drink red wine with everything. Even with a yogurt! |
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Post by seguin on Oct 26, 2007 19:24:38 GMT -5
I see! - Nope, us Euros are all in tip-top shape, so we don´t have any problems with too much cholestorol... Thats cause you people drink red wine with everything. Even with a yogurt! LOL - That´s mostly in France, Italy and Spain. You know, southern Europe in general, although wine drinking has started to manifest in northern Europe (which is more beer-oriented) too in recent years. They say that a single glass of red wine a day is good for the blood circulation and to avoid heart trouble. It´s supposed to be a proven fact. Personally, I prefer my yogurt without red wine. I´ll settle for a beer from the Alamo brewery... ;D |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 26, 2007 19:38:13 GMT -5
In the John Steinbeck novel, SWEET THURSDAY, Doc goes up to a lunch counter and orders a beer milkshake. When asked by the waitress why he wants one of those, he says it's for his health.
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Post by seguin on Oct 26, 2007 19:43:32 GMT -5
In the John Steinbeck novel, SWEET THURSDAY, Doc goes up to a lunch counter and orders a beer milkshake. When asked by the waitress why he wants one of those, he says it's for his health. The guys in Steinbeck´s novel Tortilla Flats (?) would´nt have settled for milkshakes... ;D |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 26, 2007 19:50:53 GMT -5
Great book, Tortilla Flat. Danny and his friends, the paisanos. Very earthy, sometimes touching and funny as hell.
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 26, 2007 20:01:01 GMT -5
Glass of red wine everyday, is what any eye-talian will tell you. anyone else drink Opici Barberone?
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Post by seguin on Oct 26, 2007 20:05:45 GMT -5
Great book, Tortilla Flat. Danny and his friends, the paisanos. Very earthy, sometimes touching and funny as hell. Yes, it´s a great novel! I read it as a teenager. Much later I watched an old black & white movie adaptation of the novel... |
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Post by neferetus on Oct 27, 2007 19:40:35 GMT -5
 All this talk of alcohol and I won't even be able to imbibe a little beer at the Wurstfest, due to a medical condition. Maybe they will have some of the non-alcoholic variety there. (Wow, those steins are kind of puny, aren't they? I remember how the steins at the 1983 Oktoberfest in Munich were about the size of your forearm!) |
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Post by Greg C. on Oct 27, 2007 19:45:28 GMT -5
I hope the no-beer-condition isnt permanent...
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