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Article: Beyond Berlin // The unheralded allures of East Germany
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 20, 1990
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ZINNWALD, East Germany The wursts, a pair of fatty cholesterol
nightmares, lurked on little cardboard trays with their hard rolls
and dollops of mustard. The local cola was slightly flat. An
early-afternoon drunk stared up from his beer and schnapps to watch
me pay the frowsy matron of the roadside Imbiss in the East German
hamlet of Zinnwald, just over the border from Czechoslovakia.
The two wursts and two colas totaled 2 Ostmarks and 40 pfennigs
- 32 U.S. cents at the free-market exchange rate I'd received a week
earlier from a West German bank in the Frankfurt airport. That put
the Zinnwald lunch in the Schnedler Book of World Travel Records on
April 6, 1990, as the cheapest ...