Mumme & Pressies

This weekend it´s time for the Mumme-Meile again. Braunschweiger Mumme helped to explore the world - I really should translate more of the German Wiki-article... it´s really interesting.

Mumme was a very strong... yep - you´re reading Germany... Beer. Sailors took it on their way all to Jamaica even!



This is Henry The Lion grabbing a can of Mumme (which these days is non-alcoholic).

Here you can see some "Bratwurst" - Braunschweiger Lion-Bratwurst:



And this is Ingo on the "Red Carpet", right beside a giant Mumme-can - we bought all my X-Mas-Pressies here on this market!!!



All edible - I´m good, huh? :-)


We had, btw, the same procedure as every year - the yummy food near Graff:



Y.U.M.!!!

just like that... here you can park your car (if you don´t live in walking distance like we do, ha-ha!)



Mumme is only real with this sign:



And certainly we had it:



Pics of Pressies will follow!

Here is a song... quality is bad, but it says .. "I´m back in Braunschweig again" - yes. I am!

Mumme Mile 2012

It was Mumme Meile again and sure we went. Despite the weather, dang, why do they have to have this event in November?!

Still it was fun, as you can read from Ingo being enthusiastic: This piggy thought so, too:

Maybe Mumme-Mile is a bit like Thanksgiving? The German way, with beer? ;-)

Because here it´s…

We got Mumme-Jam, something you get once a year – here at the Mumme Mile. We got heaps. To also give away :-)
We got so much, they gave us one for free! Plus some Gum-Bears.

Ingo needed a new jacket and hence we went to the hardware-store.
Now, can you explain some things to me?

Why???

This “Father Christmas” looks scary to me!!! Bu-huu, why would you do this?!

And…
Please… I know “Kaffee to go” and “Planet Sports - Dein Shop für Boardsports, Streetwear and Shoes” (or is it “und Shoes”?).
And now…

Worker Socke all season???

Very cute though is this vehicle, a midwife´s (Hebamme) car:

Funny enough… the car is pink… and the names are all girl´s names! Maybe Josefin may be a boy´s name, but the rest?
Love the pregnant “B”elly in HeBammen :-)

We truly have November, the weather is just nasty. Winter-tyres are on, my, the joy of carrying 2 sets of winter- and summer-tyres, my back hurts.

Got a very cute Maus-Advent-Calendar for little Niece:

24 little books about Christmas ("Stories for Beginning Television Viewers (aka story-Listeners) to Laugh at and Learn from")

Looking forward to December with all the xmas-lights being on! And til then Ingo bought me a pic, "Ready for the Summer": 

The "umbrella" to the left is the same you find in Varadero/Cuba, ahhhh, such great memories.
Cuban people live their music, it is awesome.

And the bus? When we travelled Australia in 1999 there was this blue VW-bus full of Hippies who partially took the same route as us.
They took free showers... only when there was warm water. True! One asked me, is the water hot? When I said no, he turned around and left!
You can guess the smell each time they opened the doors of their bus?
We really didn´t like each other(´s lifestyle) and kept bumping into each other all the time.

Memories of a great journey stay none-the-less.
And... "Ready for the Summer" I certainly am!

Mumme - a whole mile

Last Sunday we went to join the Mumme-Meile (german). There was live-music with Radio 21, classic rock, and stuff around Mumme (german).

Mumme once was a strong beer that was exported all the way to the Caribbean in the Middle Ages - a local product! Now it comes without alcohol, just as a malt-extract.



You can mix it with beer or milk (we tried - don´t do that) and on Sunday we had baked ham with Mumme - So Yum!

Inge

That´s how some guys call Ingo - I don´t know why and I don´t wanna know. I don´t talk about him now. This is a post about Inge Henze. I don´t know her personally (yet), but I think what she achieved is worth some words (and a pic) here:



She took part in the Olympic Games of Cheese. There were 335 participants with 717 different sorts of cheese - and she got the seventh!!!

With Mumme-Cheese - am I proud!

Mumme is a local product - that even went all the way to the Carribean in the 1390´s - I have some posts on Mumme, just use the blogger-search with "mumme" or click here (and start with this article again...).

Now I have to find out where Inge has her sales counter. Why did they forget that information???
So I haven´t tasted that cheese yet. The label "yummy" hopefully is true...

Have found her omline (german) - she´s on the market in town every Wed and Sat from 6-1 - gotta go there :-)

Mumme Mile#2 - We Are One

 

 

"Poffertjes are a traditional Dutch batter treat. Resembling small, fluffy pancakes, they are made with yeast and buckwheat flour.

Typically, poffertjes are a sweet treat, served with powdered sugar and butter, and sometimes syrup or advocaat. However, there is also a savoury variant with gouda cheese." (Wiki)

 

Sadly not here - I´d given the cheesy  a go, cause not many people had a sweet tooth... but, alas... In my opinion they didn´t belong there as they did not use Mum (Mumme).

 

 

Bought one for an Aussie-friend. Too long ago. He drove us "home" to Madeley from the airport Perth back then (he also worked there).

Miss him and all of them/you...

Queue too long...

Queue too long...

 

Mumme (Wiki) "Brunswick Mum ... was originally an alcoholic beer from Brunswick in Germany, which ranged from weak to strong depending on the brewing method. One of the first black beers recorded in history.

Mum originated in the Late Middle Ages. The composition gave the beer a long shelf life that allowed a wide distribution; Mum became the most important export from Brunswick and, in the early modern period was shipped to places such as India and the Caribbean. The drink is still sold in Brunswick where since autumn 2008, for the first time in about 200 years, it is produced in alcoholic variants."

 

But I gave up, went into the city and got a...

 

 ... from a super-busy Muslim restaurant.

I was one of a few non-Muslims.

Now, you expect I was not served, right? (happened at the international food festival!!)

My head was "naked", no man by my side but... I was served.

It took forever.

 

Cause... it was made fresh!!! YUMMY, but way too much and re-heated it was crap.

Next time I´ll ask for a mini-burger - maybe they do this  - they were nice, as the Muslims where I got my extra-small nuggets!

 

Next I went to a store where I found something I´ll show you on Tuesday (cause I need artist´s help) - it was hiiiiigh up.

 

First men I saw I asked for help. Muslims.  

Me. Woman without a man by the side.

The taller one did not speak German, his friend translated and the tall one happily gave me what I asked for.

 

Got also these:

 

Aren´t they fun? Also... easy to sort.

I plain hate Ingo´s socks. Black. Minor differences, takes you forever to sort them (yes, this is my job, Ingo is the fix-it-guy).

 

And for brrrr...

 

Next I nearly ran into a tall... African man.

To my surprise he said "Entschuldigung" (sorry) and dumb me answered "no worries"...

Prejudices!!!! I expected he speaks English, but he really said it in German (maybe German women tend to run into him, LOL).

He gave me a smile.

As did his girlfriend/wife, also African.

 

I think we will learn to be ONE some time, huh, what do YOU think? 

 

I got more... at the most dangerous store in town:

 

 

I peeked. There are no answers (CERTAINLY!)... uh-oh, the next year will be tough, Simpsons-wise!!!

And this one... WITH answers on the backside again, I enjoy this calendar a lot:

Ya know. I took off so disappointed Ingo did not want to join me.

But then... it was quality time for myself. 

I looked around as long as I wanted. I took my time to decide... do I need this, do I really want this?

With Ingo you have to be quick or he loses his temper.

Henry 🦁

You saw above.

I did not walk the whole "mile".

There were too many people.

Maybe I go this arvo. Maybe not. 

 

Tomorrow the super-stress will start again.

I´ll do anything we match the due date.

I am afraid we won´t.

I want to keep this job.

And this team.

 

Addendum: This was the Mumme-Mile, Christmas Market starts December 1st.

 

A Last Mile?

IKEA? What´s IKEA got to do with Mumme, I really do wonder?
This weekend it´s Mumme-mile again, and I guess for me the last time - it´s no more than a commercial something.

Some of the foods came with Mumme, obviously I even have a stand there:

But others... there was a whole row of French stuff (I even bought lavender...) - cheese, Alsace-Lorraine-quiche... at prices you wonder if they´re coverd in gold?
We had something to eat at Schadt´s instead and next year... they can have it all without me.

The way to the "event" was colorful, though, isn´t that angel beautiful?

And, awww, I always wanted a bike like this one!

That´s what Ingo wanted to show me:

There was hope...

For these, too?

Our jail...

And a bit further on you can get half a crunchy duck with apple-red cabbage and Thuringia dumpling:

And on the bridge with all the love-locks I saw this one!

Cool, no? Or rather heart-warming :-)
Hope for them.

It Had To Happen

Saturday, after we stood in line for say... 20 minutes?! - for Ingo´s tomatoes at the market we went to Guido´s and sat outside.

And then went inside - it´s too cold now for enjoying watching people passing by (sorry, no earworm intended - I really enjoy watching people ;-)....)

This is a bitter-sweet picture.
The painting you see behind Ingo is right above my head and is reflected in the mirror opposite our little table.
Where you find four such little tables, where often on Thursdays my colleagues and I had a meal together.
"Under" the new boss, some, like me, were fired (thanks to VW´s Diesel affair, where many projects, like mine, died), some quit cause the new boss hires low-cost people and never gives a raise.
How I know? One of my ex-teamleaders is still there and we´re in contact every day (OK, reckon I should call him a friend now?).

Anyhows, you cannot deny it:

Before we went to Guido´s we attended very shortly the mummegenussmeile .
:-) Let me split it down: Mumme Genuss Meile.
If you´re "new" here, Mumme in English is called Brunswick Mum. It was a beer that was so "rich", it was used as nutrition and even made it on ships to India and the Caribbean.
Once a year they introduce foods and drinks with said Mumme, if it´s really a mile I have no idea, it´s in the heart of the city :-)
Mile? I think mummegenusskilometer would sound even worse! ;-)

Volkswagen tries to make up for the affair and is big in such events....

This way they had to move the beer-stand right beside the stage.
When the musicians adjusted their... "noise" and even kids old enough covered their ears, we left.
Really. The woman had a stunning voice, but please not that LOUD!!!!

After we had a bit of pizza (I had the rest in the evenings of Saturday and Sunday!!!), Ingo, despite of the cold, decided on a last (?) ice cream - and even tried to share:

Well, a difficult task...

No one wanted a bite!

I did take a wee bit, yummy, but too cold!!

This was the freezing Lion of the day...

Taking part in Elizabeth´s "T Stands For Tuesday" :-)