The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans (Xenophobe's Guides Book 15)

by Stefan Zeidenitz

Irony is not a strong German suit and may easily be misunderstood as sarcasm and mockery.

“A polite ‘How are you?’ is likely to be answered with a comprehensive, head-to-toe survey.”

It has been said that to the French the quality of food matters, to the Germans the quantity, while the English are concerned with nothing but table manners.

Where once they ate about three times as many potatoes as the British, they now eat twice as much health-giving fruit and fibre-rich veg.