On TV: Eating at the German Army

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Re: On TV: Eating at the German Army

Post by MCIera » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:35 pm

Sehr gut.
Vielen dank!

housil wrote:Yesterday on German TV:


I recorded it for you...

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Re: On TV: Eating at the German Army

Post by housil » Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:07 pm

MCIera wrote:Sehr gut.
Vielen dank!
You welcome ;-)

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Post by BigMark » Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:28 pm

housil wrote:
BigMark wrote:If they just spoke a little slower and with a little bit less of an accent I probably could have understood better than 50% of that, obst und gemuse, fruhstuck, etc, early chapters in the book! Pretty nifty though, is the fruit salad in the EPA any good?
Hallo BigMark,

first of all I´m glad to hear that you watched it (and remember some words :D )

I like the Obstsalat. He is not this colorfull as you may know it from regular canned fruit salad.

But that is why the EPa stuff has an unlimited shelf life. The food is "boiled down" like the grandma did it 100 years ago.

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All other contains some chemical stuff to keep the color of the fruits. If you boil down some fruits in a glas, almost everything turn "grey". Thats the way the Obstsalat looks like. (for the next 100, edible years...)
Actually, I not only watched it, I really enjoyed it, it's rare I get to try to understand more than a little German, and this was right up my alley with foods and some simple verbs. I'd be wary of gray fruit salad, but as we all know, never look at what you're eating when it comes from an MRE(IMP,RCIR,EPA), etc.. I'm really looking forward to visiting Germany next year some time, we're going to start in Holland 8) :twisted: , and go to Germany from there, I'll let ya'll know when we get a real time table, right now it's in the planning stages, it's always great to meet people when you're in a foreign country. I might have to stock up on some EPAs while I'm there and try and take them home with my check-in baggage! Anyway, thanks for the movie, and thanks for the response.

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Post by BigMark » Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:29 pm

WTF? I got this when trying to post that last message..

Mistake! There was an attempt of an automatic insert of the message in a forum. Your message is sent to hell. Try still times who knows - can it will turn out? Still probably, that you too long wrote the message - then pass to page back, copy the text, update page, insert the copied text and press button "Send".

??? Looks like it was written by a non-native speaker.. YOUR MESSAGE IS SENT TO HELL!! LOL

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Post by housil » Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:56 pm

BigMark wrote: I'll let ya'll know when we get a real time table, right now it's in the planning stages, it's always great to meet people when you're in a foreign country. I might have to stock up on some EPAs while I'm there and try and take them home with my check-in baggage! Anyway, thanks for the movie, and thanks for the response.

Just lets us know, we´ll pick you up...

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Post by MCIera » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:08 pm

It's a timeout message. What I've done if I've spent a lot of time on a posting is to copy it to the Clipboard (Copy or Ctrl-C) and then post. If I get that message, I just go back and do another reply and then Paste or Ctrl-V to put it in again.
BigMark wrote:WTF? I got this when trying to post that last message..

Mistake! There was an attempt of an automatic insert of the message in a forum. Your message is sent to hell. Try still times who knows - can it will turn out? Still probably, that you too long wrote the message - then pass to page back, copy the text, update page, insert the copied text and press button "Send".

??? Looks like it was written by a non-native speaker.. YOUR MESSAGE IS SENT TO HELL!! LOL

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Re: On TV: Eating at the German Army

Post by MCIera » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:11 pm

That would be "You are welcome", "You're Welcome", though "Bitte" would have been fine. ;)
housil wrote:
MCIera wrote:Sehr gut.
Vielen dank!
You welcome ;-)

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Post by Nawt » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:40 am

housil wrote:But that is why the EPa stuff has an unlimited shelf life. The food is "boiled down" like the grandma did it 100 years ago.

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All other contains some chemical stuff to keep the color of the fruits. If you boil down some fruits in a glas, almost everything turn "grey". Thats the way the Obstsalat looks like. (for the next 100, edible years...)
Shortly off topic (sorry)

Yep, Grandma style. That how we still do it on the farm. We preserve lots of fruits and vegetables by boiling them down in glasses ('wecken'). Lots of work but worth the efford.

The program was good and informing about the 'Bundeswehr'. A short question to fellow members from Germany: Has anyone seen/recorded the broadcast from last Wednesday (Mittwoch) on WDR (West 3): "Frauen für die Front - Deutsche Soldatinnen im Überlebenstraining?" I missed it and would like to see it.

Regards, Nawt.

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Post by kman » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:54 am

(Catching up on the postings from last week...was out all last week in California)

Cool video, housil - thanks for putting it up on YouTube!

BigMark...I fixed your post above with the funky codes all over the place - it looks like "Disable BBCode in this post" was checked and that's why it was showing up.

I know what you mean about that error message. My messages sometimes get "sent to hell", too - don't know what that's about but hitting my browser's "Back" button and then clicking on "Preview" usually clears it up. Either that or copying and pasting text like you did into a new message.

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