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At KAFFEEBAR we believe in healthy eating that tastes good, while being as sustainable as possible. We are the sum of our parts: half German - half Australian - in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
We have great coffee, cake, sweet treats, fresh juices and tasty brunch items - all homemade and many gluten free and vegan.
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Photo shoot, birthday picnic, office breakfast, press days or just having some friends around - we've got you covered. We have all our classics and are happy to tailor to your party as well as dietary needs.
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Kaffeemitte, Coffee, Mitte
It’s all cement walls and pale blond wood and bare light bulbs. It makes me think of the Aveda Institute at Covent Garden, London: especially when they play plinky plonky psuedo-soothing tunes.
Outside there are pistachio coloured tables, in the Spring and Summer months they never manage to accommodate all the trendy Mittens (not fingerless gloves, the people of Mitte) with their diagonal bangs, trousers in primary colours and retro sunglasses.
Sounds like it would be the domain of the very cool so you (me) are not invited but that is not the case. The service is friendly, polite and there are frequent smiles. I even had an outlandish experience where I once had to pay for one solitary coffee with a €50 bill* and instead of lip sucking, head shaking and general undisguised disdain, change was handed over with a smile.
Bizarre! But welcome.
Coffee’s in the name and it’s good. They serve hot food, usually pasta of the day which I haven’t yet tried but it looks quite promising. What they do that are excellent are fresh sandwiches. At first I thought I had to pick from the wilting specimens in the front vitrine but those are just for reference. The sandwiches are all made fresh to order in a long open bar area at the back, by two nonplussed lady cooks, you don’t have to wait long but Kaffeemitte have invested in some of those buzzing, flashing discs that alert you when your order is ready so you can chat away to your friends without the anxiety that someone might be picking up your sandwich.
My favourite sandwich is the piadina. Thin bread, a little like arabic bread, stuffed with salami, rocket and tomato slices.
All the sandwiches come with some uninspiring salad and a zig zag of balsamic vinegar, forget about that and concentrate on the sandwiches and the coffees.
*”Oh No! Two women love me! My wallet’s to small for my fifties and my diamond shoes are too tight!” Quote from the character Chandler Bing in the Friends sitcom.
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Funny quote at the end, but more fitting here, since the larger the denomination, the larger physical size of the bill. My wallet actually barely fits 50s so I try to avoid them. That and your experience of trying to pay for low-cost items with such a large bill. I always apologize when I have to hand them over.
Also, beautiful looking bread. Do you know if they make it on site?
I know! It’s so annoying when you ask for 60 Euro and the machine gives you a 50 and a 10! Why do they even give out 50’s? Nobody takes them. Except for Kaffeemitte and the Ritz (well you probably need more than one for the Ritz).
No idea where they get their bread from.
you know, i really like that place. despite that mitte chi-chi-ness.
Yeah! It’s good right?
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Breakfast itselfs was correct.
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Breakfast itselfs was correct, nothing more.
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Berlin Food Tour
For months I have been looking for an opportunity to go on a food tour, especially somewhere on my travels. It seemed like a fantastic way to sample regional delicacies, become immersed in the local culture and gain insight into the specialties of the area.
In preparation for my trip to Berlin for The Hive blog conference, I started researching activities to do in the city. I learned about the Berlin Food Tour and decided it was a must-do during our 5 days in Germany’s capital. Lucky for us, there were tours running during our time in the city so I knew it was meant to be!
The Berlin Food Tour offers a variety of food tours in the city ranging from breweries to Currywurst to chocolate and more. I seriously contemplated signing up for the Kaffee & Kuchen tour (I mean, it’s my blog name, after all!) but I was especially interested in trying the Berlin Mitte Food Tour since it promised to offer a mix of sweet and savoury bites in Mitte, Berlin’s central neighbourhood.
S and I skipped breakfast the morning of the tour which began at 11am; we wanted our stomachs to be as empty as possible to enjoy all the goodies on offer. The meeting spot was on Rosenthaler Straße at Katjes Café Grün-Ohr. Inside the café we met Bastian, the man behind Berlin Food Tour. We were warmly welcomed and seated with the other participants on the tour. With Bastian’s friendly and approachable demeanor, I could tell we would be in for a great afternoon. Our tour consisted of only 8 people, including me, S and visitors from the UK and the Netherlands. We were all asked to briefly introduce ourselves and profess our favourite food. It was a fun way to break the ice and start the discussion about our mutual love – food!
Bastian started the tour by introducing himself and giving tips right off the bat when exploring Berlin, such as watching out for cyclists and obeying the Ampelmann (the jaunty pedestrian traffic light symbol, one of the symbols of Berlin). He also handed out business cards with his mobile number so we could call in case we got separated from the group. I appreciated having that in my pocket because Berlin Mitte can get pretty crowded!
Berlin’s famous Ampelmann, the pedestrian traffic light symbol.
The sampling started off with warm, freshly baked brownies (no better breakfast out there, if you ask me!) We also got to try fruit-flavoured Katjes bunny gummies which are vegetarian – no gelatin is used. As a fun surprise, we each got a gift bag of gummies as we left Katjes for the next stop on the tour.
The second stop was next door at Lindner, a fine foods shop with multiple locations in Berlin, Hamburg and Potsdam. When you think of gourmet, this is probably the store you’re picturing – all kinds of gorgeous pastries, the finest cheeses and cold cuts and their specialty, house-made butter that’s revived and re-mixed to order with a few whacks of a wooden paddle. We were lucky enough to witness a customer order some butter while we were there and got a little hypnotized in the process!
We sampled Berliner Frikadeller, flat, pan-fried dumplings made of ground pork and beef that are seasoned with crispy bread, eggs and onions. According to Bastian, every family has their own recipe and as such, Frikadeller are considered to be one of Germany’s national dishes. Next up was Leberkäse (which literally translates to ‘liver cheese’ – it sounds scarier than it actually is). Leberkäse is a type of meatloaf consisting of corned beef, pork, bacon and onions that is especially popular in southern Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. Bastian suggested trying the Leberkäse with Süßer Senf (sweet mustard), though we also had regular mustard and ketchup as optional condiments. I can’t remember having tried Leberkäse before despite living in southern Germany and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. It was soft, moist and flavourful, unlike North American meatloaf’s usual reputation (dry, hard and bland). Our last sample at Lindner was a piece of butter cake made with the famous Lindner butter and topped with almonds and sugar. Holy moly was that ever good!
As an interlude to the tour and a brief digestion break, Bastian showed us a hidden alleyway off of Rosenthaler Straße featuring some fantastic Berlin street art. S and I had passed by this alleyway earlier but hadn’t gone inside. I’m glad Bastian introduced us to this hidden gem because we would have really missed out on an important part of Berlin culture otherwise.
Across the alleyway from Hackesche Höfe was our next destination – All in One for Döner kebab. Döner kebab is found all over Germany but it turns out that it hails from Berlin and was invented by Turkish immigrants. I’ve never really had a Döner kebab before and was surprised by how many iterations of meat in bread with veggies you can make with Döner meat! Every day at All in One a 60 kg hunk of beef rotates on a spit and disappears completely by midnight. The meat is cut in thin strips and only the freshly roasted meat is sliced off. During our approximately 10 -15 minute stop at All in One, countless customers came in and out for their daily dose of Döner. Apparently this is the place for Döner kebab in Berlin Mitte!
The following stop was a real treat – a German bakery! My love of German bread and Brotzeit is well documented on this blog. We visited Hofpfisterei, a bakery dating back to 1331 which is famous for having once served the Bavarian royal family – amazing! If it’s good enough for them, then it’s good enough for me!
We sampled pieces of traditional German rye bread with and without butter and with regular and pepper salami, as well as Leberkäse. I am a little embarassed to say that I definitely ate the most samples at this stop on the tour! We also got to taste organic pressed Jonagold apple juice which they sell in bottles at the bakery. If my suitcase hadn’t been so heavy, I definitely would have bought a bottle of that to take home with me.
We strolled back down along Rosenthaler Straße to reach Eat Berlin, home of the finest food products in the capital. Eat Berlin is located inside the Hackesche Höfe, a series of 8 interconnected courtyards in Art Nouveau style. The courtyards are gorgeous to walk through and I’m sure it’s a popular shopping spot for locals. Inside Eat Berlin we sampled some locally made pesto, cheese, mustard and flavoured vinaigrettes. There are all kinds of unique products inside – it would be a great location to pick up a foodie gift or souvenir from Berlin.
The next stop on the tour was pretty thrilling for a sweet tooth like me – a little café called Eisenbergs on Sophienstraße. If the sparkling chandelier isn’t enough of a draw to come inside, the pastries, coffee and ice cream certainly are! My eyes bulged at the sight of the macarons on a tiered platter and the carrot cake with marzipan icing also stole my attention. We each got to sample a macaron and a little piece of carrot cake – heaven! I chose a lemon macaron and S had salted caramel. As a special treat, we each got a scoop of ice cream in the flavour of our choice in a cone. Bastian delighted us by saying that it was the first day that ice cream was being sold at Eisenbergs for the summer season so we really lucked out with our timing! I got mango flavour and S got lemon – to die for!
As we munched on our ice cream cones, Bastian led us to Barcomi’s, the restaurant of the famed entrepreneur and baker Cynthia Barcomi. The restaurant is located inside a little courtyard covered in vines, the perfect quiet spot for brunch or some Kaffee und Kuchen on a Sunday afternoon. I was surprised and sobered when Bastian pointed out that you can still spot the bullet and grenade holes in the brick walls of the building from World War II.
Here we sampled some New York-style blueberry cheesecake since Barcomi’s is known for its American baked goods. Though I only had a bite, it was packed with flavour and I can see why the New York Times hailed Barcomi’s cheesecake as one of the best in Europe.
To wash down our Kuchen, we searched for some Kaffee at Röststätte on Ackerstraße. Here we got some insight into the coffee roasting process and the difference between Arabica and Robusta coffee beans. We smelled two types of coffee beans and could appreciate their contrasting aromas. I’ve always thought of coffee as having that standard ‘coffee smell’ but when you compare beans one after the other, you can really notice a difference in their aromas. We also learned that there are actually 1000 different aromas in coffee compared to only 600 in wine – who knew?
After our informative coffee lesson, we sat down to sample some espresso made from the Röststätte Novum blend composed of all Arabica beans from Guatemala, Kenya, Costa Rica, Ethiopia and Mexico. I usually douse my coffee in milk and sugar but we were encouraged to try the espresso black. The flavour was so strong and unlike anything I usually drink, but I found that the more I drank it, the more I enjoyed the coffee flavours. My tiny espresso left me with a satisfied coffee buzz for the rest of the tour.
No gastronomic tour of Berlin would be complete without sampling its most famous dish – Currywurst! The average Berliner eats 20 Currywurst per year and there are dedicated Currywurst stands set up all over the city. We sampled the original Currywurst, which is steamed then fried pork sausage that is sliced then smothered in a curry tomato sauce. The lineup was long at Curry 61 – it’s obviously popular with the locals! We got a generous portion of Currywurst each and S eagerly finished what I couldn’t.
Our last stop on the tour was at a small microbrewery, Brauhaus Lemke, located between Hackescher Markt and Alexanderplatz. The gold medal-winning brewpub was established in 1999 and is known especially for its dark lagers.
Since the sun was shining when we arrived, we opted to sit outside in the beer garden to enjoy our beverages. Bastian and Brauhaus Lemke were able to accommodate all the guests’ requests, from non-alcoholic beer to wine suggestions for non-beer drinkers in the group. Though I don’t normally drink beer, I couldn’t resist the chance to sample some of the best beer that Germany has to offer.
The tour ended with Bastian sharing his insider tips of the best places to eat, see and experience in Berlin. He happily wrote down addresses and websites for us to look into and gave suggestions on times to go and what not to miss. It’s clear that Bastian loves sharing his knowledge of the city with visitors and locals alike. The tour was conducted in English but Bastian also chatted easily with S in German and shared the pronunciation and translation of German words with the non-native German speakers in the group. I came away from the tour with not only a much greater appreciation of German food, but also of Berlin’s food scene, culture and history.
While the tour was scheduled to be 3.5 hours, we actually wrapped up our last visit at the brewpub after about 4 hours. We never felt rushed at any of our stops and Bastian enthusiastically answered all of our questions and pointed out numerous sites of interest along the way. The time just seemed to fly by on the tour and yet we experienced so many tastes and flavours in the 4 hours.
Thank you so much to Berlin Food Tour for hosting us! If you find yourself in Berlin and love trying new foods (who doesn’t?), I can highly recommend Bastian’s Berlin Food Tour. Two tips: book online in advance as tours can fill up quickly and arrive hungry!
What are your favourite foods in Berlin?
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Hi, thanks for sharing. Would you say a child aged 6 would sustain that tour? Or is it definitely no kid place. Thanks
Thanks for stopping by, Guillaume. A child of age 6 might not be able to get through the tour as it does last a few hours and includes quite a lot of info and walking. If in doubt, you can always ask the tour guide Bastian directly and I’m sure he can advise you whether or not the tour would be suitable for a child. Have fun in Berlin!
I agree-Bastian’s tour is fantastic and he is a wonderful guide!
Thank you for the recommendations! Next time I am in Berlin I can find a good place to eat easily.:)
You’re most welcome!
Hi there, I just stumbled across your blog and wanted to say how lovely it is to see that there IS another Canadian besides me here in the Stuttgart area! I’ve been here since 2002 and us Canucks are few and far between. Look forward to reading your blog.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I’m so excited to hear that there’s another Canadian in the area. I definitely haven’t bumped into too many around these parts! ;)
Yes, we’re definitely a rarity here :) Subscribed to your FB page as that’s where I am more than blogs, very nice and interesting!
Thanks Dawna! I usually post updates of new blog posts on my Facebook page so you can see the latest there, too. :)
Oh wow! It’s making me so hungry! how could I miss this every time I was in Berlin! Thanks for the tip…now I’ll have to go back :D
I know – just writing the post was making me hungry! I was snacking on the Katjes gummies while writing the post. :D
There are lots of different food tours so you can pick one based on what kinds of foods/drinks you like. I liked the Mitte tour because we got to try a bit of everything. Next time I might try the Kaffee & Kuchen tour.
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Mitte, Berlin –
It’s not a café and no burgers are served, but once past the name it’s easy to see why Kaffee Burger is a mainstay of East Berlin nightlife.
This large bar and club gained fame in the early 2000’s when it was featured in Wladimir Kaminer’s book Russian Disco – which subsequently inspired the club’s wild, renowned Russendisko parties.
To this day, Kaffee Burger’s mix of ska, dance, folk, and rock music draws a boisterous crowd of Eastern European expats, but the club’s general popularity also attracts a larger international set looking for an authentic taste of Berlin and a rowdy place to drink.
The diversity of the music and patrons is reflected in the rather hodgepodge dГ©cor, which features 70s brown floral wallpaper and a dance floor bathed in a deep red glow in one room, and a 1950s diner motif complete with swiveling counter stools and a circular sea-foam green bar in the other room.
Somehow, though, the unique jumble of people, music, and atmosphere comes together perfectly at Kaffee Burger, especially on the weekends when patrons are known to create large, infectious dance circles that swirl energetically through the crowd.
Tip from Emma:
You’ve got to try the famous Russendisko night at least once. It happens on the last Saturday of every month and features dance beats mixed with traditional Russian music – it’s bizarre and amazing and draws a huge crowd!
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Varied roster of DJs, poetry readings, and live bands. Frequent theme nights include Russendisko, which features dance remixes of traditional Russian music, Karrera Klub with indie pop disco, and Soul Pistols with soul, funk, and 60s music.
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Cover charge €1/weekdays and €5/weekends. Beer €2.80–€3.50, vodka €2–€3.50, frozen daiquiris and margaritas €6, mixed drinks €4.50+.
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OSLO kaffe bar, Coffee, Mitte
I was picking my way through the wreck that is Chausseestrasse, trying to get to Bondi Cafe. Two women walked passed me, lovingly cradling white paper coffee cups with what looked like the word “Oslo” stamped on them.
There was a lot of love in that embrace between woman and cup. As I turned the corner onto Eichendorffstrasse, there it was: OSLO kaffe bar. The styling of the cafe vaguely reminded me of Nordic Bakery in London but when I stepped inside there was no food bar a heel of dried up loaf cake.
“Do you sell food in here?” I asked “Like croissants or cake?”
“We used to have croissants.” the barista replied “but our focus is coffee.”
I looked at the black board behind her and tried to work out what I wanted. Instead of Lattes and Cappuccinos, there were ratios 1:0, 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 indicating the ratio of espresso to milk. I order the 1:2 single origin Ethiopian coffee for €2.90 (the blend is €2.60).
I was told to expect a strong blueberry aroma. A comment which brought to mind my wine diploma, when a red wine might be described as having tobacco and leather notes. Attributes I could find no trace of when tasting the wine. Looking at my classmates, they would all be vigorously agreeing with the pronouncement while I scratched my head in wonder.
I wasn’t expecting blueberries, I’m no Roja Dove. But as I sipped from my Oslo cup, the coffee seemed at first vegetal, then savoury and finally there it was: blueberries! I didn’t know if it was the barista’s power of suggestion or if I my nose is evolving. A special cup of coffee indeed, which I drank on the slightly raised platform with nostalgic furniture listening to Björk on vinyl (which if “you ask nicely” you can buy- there is no end to the depths of hipness in Berlin).
OSLO was using Landliebe milk when I was there which is not as good as the non-homogenised Ökodorf Brodowin milk used at The Barn but a huge step up from the long life stuff that a lot of places insist on using (Something I don’t understand? Fresh organic milk retails for €0.90, a coffee is usually €2.50 plenty of space for a healthy margin).
Lovely place, which would be even better if there was something to eat alongside my blueberry coffee.
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The milk thing baffles me too. Love how you’ve captured this place.
nice nice place… in this cold days, we have to try it. thanks.
Excellent! Also, thanks for the Big pictures, now I know how much cheaper an Aeropress is in Berlin, compared to Finland. One miten place to visit next month in Berlin.
Damn you autocorrect, one MORE place to visit is what I meant. 🙂
If you like coffee you should also try The Barn, they also sell the Aeropress but I don’t know for how much. Then there is Bonanza Coffee Heroes which distributes coffee to a lot of places but is also kind of the grandaddy of the flat white Berlin thing.
Surprised to hear you found anything worthwhile on that Chausseestr. strip… but will make a point of popping by OSLO next time I am in that part of town!
There are a few things back there. Bondi, which I’ve never tried. Further up there is 2 michelin starred Reinstoff. And the other one, with the wood… Gah the name is escaping me right now…
I’ve tried Oslo before and actually found the usage of Landliebe quite disappointing. Landliebe is not organic, it’s not even fresh milk, the name and marketing concept just try to imply a somewhat “better” milk, while it’s actually as shitty as any other.
Isn’t it fresh? I’ve always seen it in the chiller cabinets at the supermarket. It is still A LOT better than the stuff they use at Ambulanz for example.
As far as I know it’s not – the brand is getting some of the worst judgements when tested, especially for the whole image, which suggests some kind of high quality, farmers product, when in the end it’s only packaging.
It’s certainly fresher than many, but far from organic.
Hmmm, well. I guess this debate goes to show that milk is just as important as single estate coffee beans when it comes to a good flat white.
Definitely, the discussion about Campina, the company behind Landliebe, is endless, here are some information, in German though: http://www.abgespeist.de/landliebe/index_ger.html
Hello there! Kristian from Oslo Kaffebar here. The Landliebe milk is indeed fresh, and we find it to be the best tasting milk out there. The problem with the organic milk is that it is a bit unstable. Sometimes fantastic, sometimes not so great. We have tested different organic milks next to the Landliebe, and we find the Landliebe to be better, all things considered.
So for the time being we’ll stick to the Landliebe.
We have bought an oven, and from next year we’ll always try to have freshly baked croissants, brioche, etc throughout the day. We also now have cakes and banana bread from Victoria in Augustrasse.
With us, coffee comes first, but we are working on extending our food offering.
On the coffee part, we are planning to use our newly aquiered Bunn filter coffee maker to make really good batch brews of filter coffee (we still do Aeropress and Chemex). We’ll also buy a 3rd Mazzer Kony grinder to be able to offer three types of espresso. Our Bonanza Oslo blend, a single origin espresso (from Bonanza, 5 Elephants, Tim Wendelboe, etc), and a 3rd espresso (preferably something “special” and limited. Could be from Stumptown, Intelligentsia, TW, Coffee Collective, Koppi, kaffitár and such).
Hope you guys found this info useful.
Thanx for a great review, btw:-)
Thank you for clarifying that.
I was in Oslo again today and I did see the milk being delivered and put in the fridge to chill. Fantastic coffee.
Oh and I had a lovely piece of cake with ground almonds on the bottom and chocolate on top. Delicious.
I agree that many places us awful milk. But LANDLIEBE is no better, even if price and packaging suggest.
Landliebe is only “fresh” i.e. what would used to have been called pasteurised, homogenised milk when the packaging claims (along with the word “frisch” – “fresh”) to be “traditionell hergestellt” – “traditionally produced”. This means ‘just pasteurised’ and not the new even-worse-than-UHT-method which almost all milk produces exclusively use, while claiming the milk is ‘fresh’ it stays ‘fresh’ (i.e. it doesn’t go ‘off’) for about 5 weeks, but won’t have any minerals or vitamins etc. in it after about 2 weeks.
I’ve never seen “traditionally manufactured” Landliebe milk anywhere in Berlin since the change about 2 years ago, I didn’t even know they produce it, but the Landliebe website claims they do both. So at best, Landliebe is expensive bog-standard milk, at worst, it’s bog-standard sub-UHT milk in smart packaging, in a deposit bottle (I’m a sucker for glass bottles, but not for Landliebe though), expensive to fund the advertising featuring buxom women in dirndls who supposedly milk the calves by hand in the bavarian alps (I’m a sucker for buxom women, dirndls, and the bavarian alps, but not for Landliebe!).
Oh, I note that the “real (non sub-UHT)” milk from Landliebe is in Tetrapaks. Oh dear!
Wow, you know a lot about milk. How come?
I’m lactose intolerant! No, seriously. Yes, seriously, though I can survive a packet of yoghurt or five.
I see through marketing shit quite easily – and apart from that, I do occasionally make my own yoghurt using a the lovely GDR product “Majomat”, a compound noun for “Yoghurt Maker from Magdeburg”, which is essentially a enamel saucepan without handles, with some very slight heating in it, a LED, a plastic lid and about 6 glass jars with lids. And an instruction booklet and box both featuring a 1980s Asian woman looking vaguely erotic while eating her home-made yoghurt out of one of those glass jars.
And you can’t make yoghurt (properly) with UHT milk, and you certainly can’t make it either from this “stays fresh longer” shit.
There was some kind of vague uproar in the press here a few years ago when everyone’s “proper” milk went shit due to the understandable desires of supermarket and dairy bosses to make shedloads more money by merging the “advantages” of UHT milk (stores until almost the next nuclear war, and would probably survive it as well) with those of fresh milk (is sold in a bottle, is kept in a fridge, has fancier packaging, and doesn’t taste quite as rubbish as UHT and therefore brings back no memories of rainy scout camps in Essex in the early 1990s).
The bit about it having no nutritional value at all after a few weeks of being in that fridge is what they forget to tell you, but at least it doesn’t go bad in your tea and/or smell of parmesan/vomit/etc., so it probably doesn’t bother many people.
So if you want “real” pasteurised milk (I’m sure someone will go all “real milk is raw” on me, but I don’t want to die of botulism) go for the stuff where “traditionell hergestellt” (“made traditionally”) is on the carton/bottle. It doesn’t have to be organic to be like this. Or, indeed, more expensive than the “modern” “fresh” stuff, though sometimes it is.
The Majomat in the collection of the German Historical Museum looks like this:
and a slightly later version showed bigger earrings and shoulderpads
Daggi – First of all, very funny answer but also informative. Will look out for “traditionell hergestellt” on the packaging. The organic biotrend milk I get from Lidl does’t have it.
Glad to be of service. I don’t know what your German’s like, but http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESL-Milch gives a good explanation of “Extended Shelf Life” milk, which is now generally sold as “fresh” milk here. ESL-brands included the most expensive ones: Bärenmarke, Landliebe, Weihenstephan, as well as cheapo stuff from Lidl, Aldi, Netto, Penny etc., and some organic milk as well. “Aldi, Lidl, Penny and NP (belongs to Edeka) do not sell any fresh milk any more, only ESL milk which only goes off after ca. 4 weeks”.
Thank you very much. I look at the chiller cabinet with new (and informed) eyes now.
P.S: I’ve since been to Oslo (the Kaffe Bar) and it *is* lovely and most recommended. I drank my coffee black though 😉
Fantastic. Glad to hear it.
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