The only thing I like about authentic German cuisine is the rye bread. Aside from that it's mostly congealed animal fat, starchy or Überverkocht vegetables, and beer.
Jewish Rye is the best bread IMO. SOOO bomb for Texas Toast which I make religiously to my own constantly evolving recipe.
That said (I know it was a total threadjack, sorry), Most Euro foods to me are bland and boring. But I really love a good German sausage with German mustard. The truth is that I always hated mustard until I went to Europe and tried the real stuff. Now Mustard is one of my favorite condiments. I wish we could have more bomb mustards here at a decent price like they do over there.
It's funny that mustard above all things was pretty much my favorite thing about Europe.
To me most American food is boring and bland, most of it's junk food, that's why so many Americans are so fat. I lived in Europe for 5 years, socialist shit hole for sure, hell in Germany you can't wild camp anywhere, stupid. The food in europe though was great, they gave a fuck about what they cooked and how it tasted, all through France, the UK, Italy, it was awesome. Germany had great meat and cheese, almost better than the facist Swiss. Nothing beat Spain though, fresh food, cooked by people who love it. America is great, if you like processed plastic shit, hey, you're in the right place then. The slow food movement that started in Europe is now in North america and things will get better. I'm not talking about the fancy nancy assholes either, all the people who want like basil infused mayo on their organic bison steak with a raspberry and rubarb vinegrette or whatever the fuck those snobs want. No, I'm talking about cheese made down the road, milk that was milked this morning and seafood that just came off the boat, real food, there is lots more of it in Europe than in the US, lots more. One thing I really miss from Europe is the wide selction of beers and wines, america can't hold a candle to it, not even close. There are the clubs to, being able to go out and listen to shit German techno music, see perverted Germans make out, walk home at 6 in the morning puking from the shitty drugs, yea, good times. Munich was a hole, a hole full of rich wankers and lots of gun violence, seemed every night a subway stop got shot up, Berlin was different, lots of clubs , lots of sex, lots of drugs and lots of fun. Why did I ever leave? Oh yea, the fucking government trying to dictate every bloody thing I did, now I remember.