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HarveyKlinger

What's suspicious about it?

reachforthedead

What should I say? You don't think it's odd?

HarveyKlinger

No. What do you find odd about it? If you had video footage of it saying 'closed' and the windows all boarded up but you saw old men and kids going in and out, THAT would be odd. It's a just a food establishment. MOST hot dog/burger places have ice cream or vice versa. Dairy Queen Brazier - ice cream, hot dogs, burgers, etc. It's really nothing out of the ordinary.

reachforthedead

Ok, thank you. It's much less common to have hot dogs and ice cream sold together in Germany, but I can see how this is flimsy evidence. I should investigate more. I freaked out when I saw this on the street, I probably overreacted. Btw my post got deleted, so mod also thinks it's flimsy

HarveyKlinger

Ahhhh... my apologies. Here in the US it's not uncommon. I did a quick search for "ice cream hot dogs menu" and came up with a lot of places. For example:

http://billysgourmethotdogs.com/

Here's a place selling hot dog ice cream!

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/the-dbgb-cool-dog-is-basically-hot-dog-ice-cream

One of the common things here in Chicagoland is Italian Beef places. They sell Italian Beef, Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, fries, onion rings, etc. Typically, those types of places also sell milk shakes, root beer floats, malts, etc. If they are going to keep ice cream, they might as well sell other things with ice cream like ice cream cones and banana splits. Typically, a hot dog stand/cart will only have brats, burgers, and hot dogs. But a brick and mortar will have more items. A couple of the places we go for lunch have hot dogs and ice cream so for me, I find it pretty common here.

Cheers!

BTW, your English is very very good.

reachforthedead

Thanks for the compliment, I'm bilingual. I guess I will do a little research, and then maybe come back and repost this. It's hard to say whether this is really normal for Germany...

HarveyKlinger

Do you have a restaurant name? Is it possible to go back and grab a menu? I'd be curious if they have a website and if it looks like they are trying to offer American type food (Americans visiting Germany would love that place) or what the deal is. If that type of place has more than one location it's probably a franchise and legit. But if it only has one location with a menu that doesn't fit the sign or uses strange terms for food like Comet Ping Pong does, you could be on to something.

Cheers

reachforthedead

looks like it really was a false alarm. there are two shuttered windows (I also recorded video), and above the one out of sight is a sign: American cafe! So I guess it's nothing after all. I'm signing off now!

HarveyKlinger

Cool. Have a good one. It's 1:30 am and I need to get up for work in about 4 hours so I'm out too.