Another “crossover” of Project “Show Colors” and Sari’s Projekt 52, and the picture also (almost) fits my series about Queen B-sides and album songs because the song I’m referring to is from the album Hot Space from 1982 – released on 21 or 24. May, depending on where you look1; it was on the B-side of the “Body Language” single from 19/4/82, however – and there’ll be another special song I’ll write about a little later:
This week’s Projekt 52 topic is “Wahnsinn” = madness/insanity/frenzy…
It’s “Wahnsinn” in German, and that can be used in multiple ways: as mental state/illness, as crazy deed, as expression of enthusiasm, as comparison… What you can “see” here are cellphone photos in insanely bad quality from an insanely great concert: Subway to Sally last night in Munich, and the ecstasy in the audience was even greater than the “camera” noise.
And I fear I made two faux pas: I took the S-Bahn instead of the subway (U-Bahn) to get there, and I didn’t eat a sandwich at that sandwich chain. Oh oh…
This week’s Projekt 52 topic is “contrasts”, and I’m combining it with a convenience food report:
A “Kaiserschmarrn” from “Schwaben Speisen” in Fellbach which I recently noticed as a new offer on the supermarket’s chilled shelf1, and I thought I could give it a try. “With fruit compote and vanilla sauce” – there also was another version I didn’t remember –, to be heated in a microwave or pan; I chose the former, since it’s about convenience in such convenience foods (and the sauce can’t even be heated in the same pan as the pancake).
And this one try will be the only one. It’s to be expected, of course, that convenience food never looks as good in reality as it does on the cover, and so this contrast here – bottom left: sealed and cold (and photographed without flash and under different light conditions); center: hot, without foil; right: packaging – is no miracle. I just never came across such a thick dough, cut almost in cubic shapes, being called Kaiserschmarrn, though… but what about the most important part: the taste?
Well, while the (culinarily certainly not top-notch) Kaiserschmarrn that my local butcher’s snack bar offers every few weeks (I presented it last year) literally does deserve my rating “enjoyable”, I can call this Fellbach ready-to-serve Kaiserschmarrn at most “only just edible”, and I certainly won’t buy it again.
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