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.
When I returned to the States in 1972, I had to say goodbye to German beer, to which American beer didn’t hold a candle. When the Danish brewery Tuborg began to market beer in the US, its ads noted that it was “brewed light for American tastes”—in other words, watered down.