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Viktualienmarkt (daily food market), Munich, Germany
As the most popular market in Munich, it was no surprise to me it was the busiest. At the late riser time of 10:45am, Germans, Swiss, Americans, Aussies, and everyone in between were enjoying the day, drinking steins of beer and trying to digest the several bratwursts they had already eaten. So, why wouldn’t my traveling buddy Paul and I participate in a lot of the same?
We’d already started earlier that morning by eating giant German pastries from the local bakery and devoured a box of blackberries fresh off a local farm. Oh, and Paul’s addiction to gummy bears could and would not go ignored.
Our tour guide set us off to our own devices for about an hour and told us to reconvene in the market’s center where hundreds of cheeses, armed with cholesterol and fatty goodness surround you like the military on a raid. Ozzie (our guide) said Viktualienmarkt is the best market to get fresh food and a variety of delicatessen. Paul tried some sort of seafood pita thing while I busied myself with Weizenbier (wheat) and a giant pretzel. With extra mustard. And salt. And then we both had ice cream. And then I ate an antacid.
According to Ozzie and his boundless knowledge of German culture, we were all on track to becoming “healthy” Germans who usually burned off the calories by walking everywhere (typical of Europeans). With that, Ozzie wasted no time after our hour-long break to get us moving again. Paul and I swung our full bellies aside and plundered on!
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