Is Bavaria the Texas of Germany?

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awesome

GQ lol

How about the inhabitants are visibly identifiable by traditional garb correlation? Bavaria has it’s lederhosen, Texas has the cowboy hat and boots thing going on.

yes, good analogy :)

Having lived in both… as well as enjoyed the beers of both… and having refined my local accent in both… I have to say, yes!

Aww robmandu, the beer is much better in Bavaria!! :)

This actually said to me by a Schwabian German: “All things of bad taste associated with Germany come from Bavaria!”.

Guten Tag, y’all.

I don’t know about Bavaria… but as a Texan, I feel the need to defend my people however hillbilly some of them may be.

1) Not all of us wear cowboy hats and boots. Actually, it’s becoming a rather rare thing, even out in west Texas where people actually ranch for a living. Old school people, like my Granddad, still do, but it’s not common.

2) What’s this about a funny accent? Maybe we think your accent is funny. Ever think of that? Anyway, the bad accents are really only in the more rural areas. In DFW, Houston, Austin, San Antonio… they’re really pretty neutral.

3) The only people that really think we should secede from the Union are the hillbilly wackjobs. The guys who post up in their front yards with a 30 pack and a shotgun. Believe me, they’re not the majority.

4) The rest of America doesn’t like us and we don’t like you? I think that’s a pretty biased statement. Everywhere I’ve been in the U.S. and even Canada the minute people found out I’m from Texas, they were so into it. Conversely, I personally don’t know anyone who dislikes the rest of America… The creepy conservatives may think the rest of you are a little too liberal for their tastes, but I highly doubt you’d walk up on any random Texan and hear them bashing the rest of the U.S.

I’ll be the first to admit that I absolutely hate the majority conservative mentality that exists here, but all in all, I do love Texas. We are a different breed, but that’s ok :)

as a native Texan i too COMPLETYL agree with essieness.

1. the only place i see people wear cowboy hats and boots are at the Rodeo

2. The only funny thing about how we talk is that we say “yall” (and i think Chicago has a funnier accent, i have a teacher from Chicago and he says “Golds” instead of Goals and Nekad instead of Naked)

3. ya pretty much what essieness said is right on to what i was going to say.

4. and any time i say i am from San Antonio people will just talk about how much they LOVE it here. (and how they were stationed here when they were in the air force, because probably 90% of anybody in the air force has come through San Antonio)

and the reason people seem to hate Texas is because of Bush but people always seems to forget that he was born in Connecticut.

(and i do hate the conservatives who live in all the Rural towns)

@aisyna Woo hoo! Go Texans! I lurve San Antonio as well. Isn’t Rosario’s there? Love that place.

@essieness Hay there gal! Whad d’ya mean no cowboy boots n hats? I’m pret’ near sure I saw some ole’ fart awearin’ dem there things the udder day when I wuz a drivin’ my 350Z with dem long horns on da front hood a’down the road a bit. I hit dat big ole’ horn and honked and wavvvved at ‘em!!!! He smiled an wavvved back an y’know whut? Dat ole’ fart had nary a tooth in ‘is head but he had da biggest ole’ oil well in ‘is front yard dat I ever seen. I tink I’da give up my teef for a big ole’ oil well. Wud you?

@essieness yep Rosario’s is here :D along with all the other AMAZING Mexican food restaurants that makes Texas so amazing

Great question, Tom. Well, as someone who actually lives in Bavaria (and also knows Texas a little bit) I guess I should answer.

Bavaria is a big state in terms of the area, but only the second in terms of population (there are more people in Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Most hotbeds for industry and high tech companies are in the Munich area. Munich, though is only 30% Bavarian in terms of the residents.

The various Bavarian, Franconian and Schwabian dialects are no more or less funny than any of the other dialects in Germany.

Only 1% of Bavarians elect a party which wants to form its own country. If they succeeded the Franconians would immediately demand to leave Bavaria which in turn might inspire some of the cities to leave Franconia and we are back where we were many centuries ago. So this is complete nonsense. To Bavaria like most of the other 15 states in Germany the federal systems is very important (quite the opposite of how things work in France). That’s a good thing. The same applies to the US.

The rest of the country doesn’t like them? Not true in general. There are some arrogant Bavarians who think they are sort of superior. They are not liked. No one likes arrogant people. The rest of the country, well, the rest of the world actually, likes the Oktoberfest, a Bavarian invention. The same applies to wheat beer:

Wheat beer is a beer that is brewed with a significant proportion of wheat. Wheat beers often also contain a significant proportion of malted barley. Wheat beers are usually top-fermented (in Germany they have to be by law). The flavor of wheat beers varies considerably, depending upon the specific style.

See link

< < is wearing cowboy boots right now (and jeans and a tee) in his office on the 13th floor in Dallas, TX.

And I’d be willing to bet that there’d be a huge percentage difference in the numbers of Texans vs. any-other-state-ians that know how to pronounce “Luccese” correctly.

And finally, while yes, it’s impossible to put any other region in the world up against Bavaria in terms of sheer awesome beer-ness (where each McDonald’s in my town was combined with its own unique microbrewery)... we do have some pretty alright stuff hosted here in Texas, too: Shiner Bock being the most ready example.

lurve for Shiner Bock

@robmandu Lurve to my fellow Texan! I’m about 2 hours east of you on I20

@mattbrowne

Also wenn Du mir sagen willst das der Rest vom Volk net denkt das die Bayern spinnen, dann komm mal nach Berlin und frag nen echten Preussen was er von Bayern haelt :)

So, und dann, wenn es um Foerdergelder fuer Forschung geht liegt Bayern meines Wissens im Bund immer noch ganz vorne. ;)

Allerdings hasste Recht, wenns um die Franken geht, die spinnen gleich alle!

Don’t be so serious y’all, have a ‘lil fun with it. Texan Bavarians really makes sense to me :)

@TaoSan – Aber klar darf man das alles nicht so Ernst nehmen ;-)

I do like Texas even the most southern tip, South Padre Island. Great beaches.

@mattbrowne

Haha!

Try picturing guy with Lederhosen AND cowboy hat :)