When I was living in Germany in the early 1970s, the place to go for the closest thing to an American-style steak was an Argentine restaurant. If you ordered steak at a German restaurant, it would always come smothered in a sauce.
You could also get pretty good fried chicken at Wienerwald (Vienna forest), a chain of indoor-dining restaurants. However, they fried the whole chicken, not individual pieces as they do here.
They always had ‘flankensteak’....I called it Franken Steak!............
We might have crossed paths. Thanks for bringing up memories. I miss the German food... schnitzel, shashlik, vinegar potato salad. Every little town had its own bakery and brewery. I have never had any beer in the U.S. that tastes as good as the German beer. The landlady would trade goodies for V-8 juice.
sounds like germans can only afford cheap cuts