Pizza TadescoGiusy ordered this pizza called Pizza Tadesco - (German pizza). It is a basic cheese and tomato pizza with french fries on top! Now I guess the grass is always greener and when you grow up with such healthy food, a pizza like this must be a treat for you.

Instead for us, where we are bombarded with fast food - this is considered, in my opinion, grotesque. Although it probably tastes delicious it actually ruins what pizza is all about.

A lot of Sicilians emigrated in the 1970s to Germany for work and there are a lot of German influences evident all around, our last dinner was at a German styled restaurant owned by a Sicilian who had lived there for the last 20 years -the food was amazing and the beer German. Not sure if this is really a German pizza, will have to ask Jappy?

p.s. at this restaurant in Camastra our bill for 10 people came to 98 Euros?! We had pizzas, wine, desert and antipasti of fish...how cheap was that? Each pizza was around €4.50.

PretzelPic of a pretzel seller on the street in Berlin. These pretzels were extra large and sold by a girl who epitomised the look of a German pretzel seller with her two braids, blonde hair and sweet Rapunzel look, like she just stepped out of a German fairytale.

Common around the southern part of Germany they are eaten as a snack, sometimes for breakfast and are made of simple ingredients: wheat flour, water, sugar & yeast along with large helpings of thick chunky bits of salt. The exact date and place of the origin of the pretzel is not known, but in 1111 the pretzel was an emblem on the bakers’ guilds in Southern Germany - only a short 896 years ago.

And did you know that within the Catholic church, pretzels are regarded as having religious significance and are particularly associated with Lent, fasting and prayers before Easter.

And in North America, fat bar goers eat lots of pretzels with beer, go the fatties!

Food Envy Futterneid is German for 'food envy' - the feeling you get when you wish you'd ordered what your friend ordered.

This happens to me all the time along with another disease which is ordering more than I can eat as my eyes are bigger than my stomach - will have to make up a word for that. My sister always bets me $100 I can't finish all that is on my plate and usually wins. Luckily she never collects...

More Tiroler Hut
I am not going to add much more description as it is best to go there and experience it yourself. You must go to enjoy the authentic German food, the entertainment, ambiance and vibe of the place.

A few more pics below.

Lovely cabbage rolls...(I need to figure out how to take photos indoors when there is low lighting)Traditional and yummy apple strudel...

LJ dancing with Ricardo...

Joseph and the ladies...

CB and the Austrian beer...

And the pink ride home...love this car!