And then someone told him what they were made of...LOL. (For the record: a true Wiener Schnitzel is veal, not pork. But if it's cheap in a restaurant, it's probably pork.)
Yes, I know. I’ve been there.
As a civilian, not while I was in the military, we were on a job for the German government back in 2000.
We ate lunch on the German air base, what would probably be the equivalent of the NCO Club on a US base.
We could speak a little German, enough to read a menu, and we came across ‘Hamburger Schnitzel’ as a lunch item.
We asked each other, “What is a ‘Hamburger Schnitzel’?”
One guy said, “I guess it’s a schnitzel with hamburger in it.”
The waiter, suddenly broke in to the discussion, in typical proud German fashion, and exclaimed, in English to our surprise, “Zer iz NO HAMBURGER IN OUR SCHNITZELS!”
Shocked, we asked, “Then what is it?”
He explained to us that ‘Hamburger Schnitzel’ simply meant that it was a schnitzel served in the way of Hamburg cuisine, meaning that it has a fried egg on top!
Just as Wiener Schnitzel means a schnitzel served in the way of Vienna cuisine....................