Pfälzer Saumagen (pig’s stomach from the Palatinate) may sound horrid but it’s actually a very tasty dish, similar to a fat sausage consisting of pork, potatoes and spices and stuffed in a pig’s stomach rather than a thin piece of intestine.

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl who was a native of the Palatinate loved this dish and served it to his guests of state. Rumour has it that the better they liked it, the better he got on with them. I don’t know if that’s true but it was always reported that while Mikhail Gorbachev liked it quite well, Margaret Thatcher detested it and look at the politics of these three! I was absolutely sure that a photo existed of Thatcher looking suspiciously on her plate (and everybody I spoke to was also sure) but this seems to be trope rather than a reality.

Anyway, the inhabitants of the area are quite adamant that Adam and Eve came to live in the Palatinate after they were kicked out of Eden since this is the part of Earth that came closest to paradise. No wonder they consider their most typical food and drink – wine and saumagen – to be fit for the gods.

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