Food & Drink:

• In Germany, we have 1,500 different types of beer, 300 types of bread, and 1,000 types of sausage.

• In the state of Bavaria, beer is actually considered a food!

• Germany is home to the biggest Beer Festival in the world, Oktoberfest in Munich, where the standard glass of beer is a whole liter!

• If you want to order 1 beer in Germany, you show your thumb and for 2 beers you show your first finger.

• More than 800 million currywurst sausages are eaten every year in Germany. The snack is so popular that there’s even a museum dedicated to it in Berlin.

• Germany is the second largest beer consumer in Europe – we usually drink around 2.55 billion gallons of it a year

• In Germany, there are over 1,200 breweries that produce over 5,000 brands of German beer.

• Most German main dishes include meat and sometimes fish – the most popular kinds are pork, beef, veal, or fish.

• The most famous German food exports are sauerkraut, sausages, and brezeln (pretzels)

• The sweet maker, Haribo, runs a scheme where local children can exchange acorns for sweets. Their acorns then get sent to nature reserves to feed animals.

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