Germans love their food expressions, Part 4: Fruits + Veggies

Doesn't this look like a band cover? (The pepper on the far right is the moody drummer :-P )

Now on to fruits and vegetables! (+ food pictures from my mission in Frankfurt for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints :) )

A group lunch with other sister missionaries in Frankfurt

1. This is another fairly famous one:

• Jetzt haben wir den Salat

"Now we have the salad"

= "Well now we've got this (tricky) situation" with the implied "And how are we going to deal with/get out of it?" and maybe even an "I told you so" as well :)

2. Now for some more expressions from the garden

• Kraut und Rüben

"weeds/cabbage and tubers"

= chaos; you can use this expression to describe someone's messy room (or the top of my desk....); "Kraut" can be like in "Sauerkraut" (sour white cabbage) or as in "Unkraut" (weeds)

Potatoes are tubers! (+ holding our candles for the 4th of July)

3. And another tuber...

• die Rübe

"tuber"

= a slang term for your head

Okay, there are no tubers involved here...although peanuts are at least legumes!
(And yes, that's us eating PB+J on Turkish bread)

4. And cabbage again...

• Kohldampf haben

"to have cabbage steam"

= to be really hungry/have a ravenous appetite; "Kohl" is another word for cabbage

Our soup with "Blumenkohl" ("flower cabbage" or cauliflower)

5. Okay, here's another verb :)

• abgrasen

"to graze (something) up"

= to make it flat, like sheep grazing the grass down to the nubbins

Our fridge during our healthy kick :)
(yes, we had another sort as well...(see the fridge picture in the Dairy post))

6. Now for some pears

• die Glühbirne

"glowing pear"

= lightbulb (makes sense, if you think about it :) )

Pear? Nope, a banana, when my mission companion was dressed like one

7. pear #2

• Nichts in der Birne haben

"to have nothing in the pear"

= here we have another slang term for your head, in this case the phrase means 'to have nothing in your head/brain'...(not particularly nice...)

Our jam had plums, grapes and banana in it, but no pears :)

8. And beans...

• eine Bohnenstange sein

"to be a beanpole"

= to be quite thin, like unto a beanpole

... Blackberries also start with "B"... I found these near the busstop :)

9. And lastly for the techies, like my father-in-law

• der Kabelsalat

"cable salad"

=a mess of cables/cords; this is something that drives my father-in-law crazy, so he prefers to avoid it by making everything orderly :)

and now, cracker night! ...no fruits or veggies were involved in this eating activity.