The DU Lounge

(OK, you guys, say THAT three times in a row, fast without stopping!) **

https://bauernladen.at/produkte/tastl-wachauer-marillenbauer/wachauer-marillennektar-33485

It's a tiny production, and they don't ship in quantities large enough for a store to maintain a stock, and they will not ship beyond Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

It is made, bottled and sold by the Tastl (TAHS-tle) family in a tiny village in the Austrian Wachau Valley. It is almost worth learning German and living here for this alone.

** When I first met the sister of my younger daughter's SO (they're German), she automatically assumed I was another dumb American who was incapable of learning a foreign language. So, she spoke to me in English. She remarked that Americans just couldn't pronounce German words.
Without letting on, I just said, "really? It doesn't sound so complicated to me."
She said, "Oh, yes, you people just can't pronounce our words at all."
I said, "like what?"
Thinking she would throw me a curve, she said the word for "little match box," which in German is "Streichholzschächtelchen."

I repeated it perfectly: "Streichholzschächtelchen. What's so hard about that?"
She nearly fell over backwards with shock, saying, "well, MOST Americans can't do that."
I asked. "Are you sure about that? Have you taken the time to ask 'most Americans' to be sure of what you are saying?"
Uhh, well no, she hadn't.