Local Butchers, Delis
Here you can buy meat and local deli / specialties:
1) Siegfried Dieter
Schillerplatz 12, 35578 Wetzlar
(+49 (0)6441-4 61 22
This one is right next to the bakery.
The Süss Family has a long history and successful business in Wetzlar. They also have hot lunch sandwiches, salads (try their egg salad and Mailander Salami Sandwiches, as well as their different types of cooked hams). My favorite is cooked ham sandwich with an egg salad. Adjacent to the butchery is a fine restaurant that is family owned as well.
This is what you can expect from a good German butcher and deli...
sausage = Wurst
meat = Fleisch
lunch sandwiches = belegte Brötchen
cooked ham = Kochschinken
egg salad = Eiersalat
butchery = Metzgerei
butcher = Metzger
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This is what you can expect from a good German butcher and deli...
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About German Butchers
Although supermarkets are popular, many Germans still prefer to shop for meat, bread, pastry, fruit and vegetables in specialty shops: the butcher, the baker, the green grocer and other specialized types of stores.
Germans have no tradition for sandwich shops, but you will find that German butchers sell quite nice take away food and are serious competition for the fast food chains. Even the smallest bakery will sell many sorts of bread or rolls, most of them darker (for example, using whole wheat or more rye flour) than the white bread popular around the world and definitely worth a try. Butchers typically open very early (e.g., after 7 a.m.) to allow you to buy items for your breakfast before going to work. Most butcher stores are closed on Sunday, so make sure you buy your meat on Saturday for the weekend.
The German terms for “butcher” and “butcher shop” are regional. Metzger tends to be used more in southern Germany, while Fleischer is more common in the north. The official term for the trade is Fleischer. Older, rarely used terms are Fleischhacker, Fleischhauer and Schlachter.
Here are some useful German words and expressions (along with the English translation) that come in handy when buying sausages or meat at the local butcher store:
der Fleischer - the butcher
die Fleischerei - butcher shop
beim Fleischer - at the butcher's
der Metzger - the butcher
die Metzgerei - the butcher shop
beim Metzger - at the butcher's
der Fisch - fish
das Fleisch - meat
das Rindfleisch - beef
das Geflügel - fowl
das Kalbfleisch - veal
der Schinken - ham
das Schweinefleisch - pork
die Wurst - sausage
[ sources: wikitravel, german.about.com ]
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