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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter 'a', the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.

[–] LordWiggle 2 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot 'digging holes at beaches' and The Sound Of Music. For the rest you nailed it.

[–] Regrettable_incident 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sauerkraut is way older then Germany. People have been fermenting food a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Especially when you consider Germany as a country is not really that old

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The bicycle was, in its present from, was invented by a Brit.