Frankfurt in Birmingham, Christmas on Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving we skipped the traditional turkey meal and opted instead for a drive across the country to the largest German-style Christmas market outside Germany. You'll remember how much we love the German Christmas markets (here and here). It's about a 2-hour drive to Birmingham, which is a twin city of Frankfurt, Germany. They try to have an authentic German Christmas market, and we felt like they were successful in recreating that experience. As usual, we were there for the food, and we had some tasty stuff!

So many sausages! We loved the Bratwurst and Weisswurst we had. Here's a photo of Jacob eating his and holding mine; and a photo of me using the industrial-sized mustard squeezer.

This girl is making Poffertjes, which are little yeasty pancakes. We had some with powdered sugar, which were delicious.

Here's a photo of a yeast dumpling filled with plum preserves, topped with vanilla sauce and poppy seeds. It was actually super-delicious!

We did try one thing that wasn't good. They fry potato pancakes, and we've seen this at the markets in Germany but never tried it. They smother it in applesauce. We thought the pancake wasn't worth eating, but I did take one last lick of the apple stuff (which was yummy), and Jacob got this very unattractive photo.

Below is Jacob in front of the Haribo stand. We may have purchased something there too. :) Things we also ate (not pictured): candied almonds & peanuts, chocolate-covered strawberries, pudding pastry, cherry pastry, chocolate-coated almond bar and a rotisserie ham sandwich.

Just a couple of photos of the stands. We know we should be saying Happy Thanksgiving today, but we're really saying Merry Christmas!