Quark Please!!

Eating has always been one of my favorite hobbies. All throughout high school I cooked for my enormous family of perpetually-starving brothers. Naturally then, I am always curious about food from other cultures and was thoroughly intrigued by the idea of trying a whole new collection of comestibles. Of course, I'd heard about how German people loved their Bröt and as someone who never eats American bread, I was skeptical but willing to try it. I'd also learned about how breakfast was not usually very sweet, the main meal was in the middle of the day, and that dinner was light, easy, and quick. All of this appealed to me as my eating habits are fairly similar, but I was still not sure what to expect. I just knew that I had to see if their bread was really all it was cracked up to be. My first meal in Berlin was breakfast around noon on Sunday. Tea or coffee, honey or sugar, yogurt, Toasties and Quark. Something like the tastiest English Muffin you can imagine, my Toastie was not the bread I was expecting - but it sure ruined American breakfast bread. Not going to want another English Muffin any time soon. The best way my mind can categorize Quark is that it is almost like thin, flavored cream cheese. Unlike the strawberry-flavored cream cheese I've previously had, this Quark was flavored with garlic and green onions. I've heard that they also have horseradish-flavored Quark - which I would love to try! But so far, I haven't found any. I think that if I could by Quark in Tennessee, it would replace butter, Ranch, peanut butter, and mayo in my diet. I like it that much. Monday night I bought Bröt from a grocery store in Friedrichstrasse Station for .45 Euro. It was cold. And still amazing. Hard and crunchy on the outside, but soft and fresh on the inside, it's texture and taste was like nothing I've had in America. I think I could eat it every day, plain or with Quark, and never get tired of it. Unfortunately, I'll never get to to test that theory in Cookeville.