Our damit gut train service to the Cape

By adamg on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:18pm

A German magazine takes note of the MBTA's rebooted train service to Cape Cod, or, as it's called in German, Cape Cod.

Die Züge starten von der South Station in Boston und sind damit gut ans MBTA-Netz, den öffentlichen Nahverkehr der Hauptstadt, angebunden. Nach Zwischenhalt in Buzzards Bay erreicht der Zug nach zweieinhalb Stunden Hyannis auf Cape Cod.

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German version of Cape train

By anon
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:22pm

Dumbest excuse for an article I think I've seen anywhere. Also offensive to Germans. Get a life.

Oh

By BostonUrbEx
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 12:45pm

Shut the fuck up.

Civility FTW!

By Rhett Thanas
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 1:02pm

I see you've received your Internet Welcome Kit and have learned how to properly respond to a reasonable comment left by another Citizen of the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY!

Seriously though, aren't jokes about the German language just a bit played out? I move we dig up George Carlin. He could make it funny again.

Get a life.Says the anon

By tcf098
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 1:04pm

Get a life.

Says the anon commenting on a post that he or she does not agree with.

It's obviously a paid

By ElmerCat
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 1:08pm

It's obviously a paid advertising story on a travel website. I wonder how much the MBTA pays for stuff like this.

I'm sure Germans are fascinated

By anon
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 1:49pm

by MBTA train service to Cape Cod.

No, seriously.

Of course it was paid advertising. Divert the $ spent on shit like this to fixing the system's signal problems. That would be $ well spent.

There are a TON of German ex-pats in Boston

By anon
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 2:48pm

I've met a good number of them over the years. It makes sense- advertise in Germany, their friends and family will come visit and go to the Cape. Or they'll come to Boston on business at the many universities, and take a detour down the Cape after the trip's over.

German ex-pats

By Allstonian
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:41pm

If there are so damn many German ex-pats in Boston, why can't we have a decent German restaurant in this city? I have high hopes for Bronwyn in Somerville, but Jacob Wirth's is an embarrassment and there is NOTHING else.

Agreed!

By anon
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 7:41am

I know many people from all kinds of backgrounds who love traditional German food. Just make sure they have a license to serve beer,too.

Agreed 100%

By TheSandal
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 9:15am

THANK YOU! Glad to see someone else point this out.

Hmm...

By eeka
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 9:28am

Because German food is only one small step above British food? ;-)

When I lived in Germany we mostly got Italian or Thai when we went out.

Bull

By anon
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 9:50am

There's actually fantastic traditional German food. Likewise there's actually fantastic traditional English, British and Irish food. Ditto Scandinavian, Eastern European. And the best beer and liquor in the world.

The reason so much attention is paid to so-called Italian food [disclaimer: I'm 1/2 Italian] and Mexican is both are well marketed. And the food most people think of when they think Italian or Mexican is very inexpensive and easy to make. It was called peasant food when I was growing up. This makes it very profitable for operators of 'Italian' restaurants, many of whom charge a small fortune for that peasant food. French, German, even Irish traditional food is more expensive because the basic ingredients are more expensive.

Some people like to spread the misconception that all northern Europeans have bland 'white bread' tastes. Completely false and untrue. Nothing more than a stereotype.

It's mostly "peasant food"

By Matthew
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:30pm

Coq au vin, for example. Turns out the peasants knew how to make the best of what they had.

Most of what gets sold as "Mexican food" in this country isn't Mexican. Actually, same goes for Indian, Chinese and Italian. And probably everything else to some extent. Whatever, if it's good, I'll eat it.

You're right about the rest though. I think that some of the stereotype just comes from people who had parents that were bad cooks. Or they went to some crummy restaurant that figured it could rip them off.

You could make a killing...

By Neal
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 9:50am

...opening a Swabian restaurant here. Not many outside of Baden-Württemberg know what Maultaschen is, though Spätzle is a little more common. It would be an instant hit! Baking in Germany is as much an art as it is a science, so Boston could use a decent German bakery too. Currently, one has to go to Hillsborough, NH to get a decent pretzel (which, by the way, are never served with mustard) or brötchen. Luckily, my brother lives in Hillsborough, so I stock up on pretzels every time I visit.

Who makes these rules?

By merlinmurph
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 10:10am

...(which, by the way, are never served with mustard)

So, who decides this? Is there a standards comittee that makes these decisions?

If someone likes mustard on their pretzel, what's the big deal? Sheesh. I don't think I've ever put mustard on a pretzel, but that's just me.

Now, ketchup on a hot dog, that's sacrilegious.... ;-)

"Is there a standards committee?" Have you met any Germans?!

By Jeff F
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:19am

Die Brezelreinheitsgebot, augenscheinlich!

Exactly!

By eeka
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:11pm

There's a standard for EVERYTHING.

(I say, having grown up with parents who, among other things, insisted that one measure the water used to boil macaroni from a box, which then gets drained out, because THE BOX SAYS TO USE SIX CUPS OF WATER. Augenscheinlich.)

A standard, and of course, a standards body.

By anon
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:37pm

Deutsch Institut für Normung von Gewürzen hinzugefügt Backwaren.

And the good thing about standards is....

By merlinmurph
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 1:08pm

...that there are so many of them. ;-)

This is a common refrain from those who work on bicycles a lot. Dealing with all the different "standards" with bicycles - headset size/design, BB design, wheel sizes - can be maddening.

Good point, the Germans are probably the best at maintaining standards - or one standard.

gosh darn French threaded

By greenlinetobrooklyn
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 3:06pm

gosh darn French threaded bb's! let the relic go and just get a new bike

With enough muscle

By anon
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 7:25pm

you can change the threading of your BB, because the part you screw into it (I don't know its name) is much harder metal than the BB shell itself.

Don't ask me how I know this, it's damn embarrassing.

Oh yeah!

By Kaz
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 1:55pm

Liebe meine abschminke!

Um, I think it's a common law thing.

By Neal
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:43am

So, who decides this? Is there a standards comittee that makes these decisions?

German John does:

Our Pretzels don't come with mustard...
Mustard for your pretzels? That's something we don't talk about here. The Germans eat pretzels with unsalted butter which really enhances the taste.
John has gone public on TV saying that he "can hear the pretzel screaming from a block away" when it gets doused with mustard.
Trust us, mustard is a taste destroyer when it comes to freshly baked pretzels. Try the German way, we think you'll like it!

He is German, after all. He should know.

In his defense, other than a vaguely similar shape, the pretzels that you get on the street here are nothing like the pretzels you get from German bakeries and pretzel stands in Germany. The flavor and texture are completely different.

Clear Flour Bread

By Allstonian
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 12:31pm

Clear Flour Bread in Brookline (near Packard's Corner) has been exploring German baking recently with very tasty results. Have you tried their pretzels? I think they're pretty good, but I admit I haven't been to German John's.

There's also Sweet Mandel Bakery in Newton (no storefront - they bake more or less to order) - check them out on Facebook.

I wonder why it's named in English..

By Neal
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:43pm

Auf Deutsch, it would be called Kap Kabeljau. Just rolls off the tongue.

English is just a far out dialect of German.

By anon
Fri, 05/24/2013 - 11:15am

That's why they don't bother.

English version?

By anon
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 7:34pm

I can't read this shit.

The intertubes am you friend!

By Jeff F
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:14am

Specifically, Babelfish page translation.

I think this article would be

By Anon
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 1:10pm

I think this article would be of interest to German tourists visiting Boston who want to check out Cape Cod without the need zu mieten ein Auto.

Also change the title, Adam. It just makes all of us 'murcans look stupid about foreign languages.

I'll decline

By adamg
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 2:12pm

I didn't link to that because I thought it might be of benefit to our German touristen; I doubt they're flocking to UHub for Cape transportation information, and there are far better places for them to learn why they should come to Boston.

I linked to it because it's not every day you seen an article in German about the MBTA. Also the words in the headline are taken directly from the article - I might have gone with "sehr gut" myself, but who am I to question how somebody in German expresses himself - let alone about the quality of MBTA trains?