Windsheimer
The Nuremberg journalist Klaus Schamberger (81) has made a name for himself as a columnist and has written more than 20 books. The most recent work is a memoir about his childhood in Nuremberg and has the beautiful title “How I didn’t become Morlock.” In it, he talks, among other things, about a trip with his mother to the Bratwurst-Herzle in Brunnengasse, where his mother was able to forget her everyday worries for a short time. Schamberger never forgot that he was given “Six with Kraut and a Windsheimer”. You can still imagine the former, but what is a Windsheimer? People of advanced age will remember that it was a lemonade, a cracker, the raw material of which was produced in Bad Windsheim. This lemonade was sold throughout Bavaria under the brand name Nawinta. The vernacular called this sugar cracker Windsheimer. In the first post-war decades it was still considered a luxury item, in contrast to the cheaper fizzy drinks.
Cigarettes
Recently a song by the Regensburg song poet Erhard Dietl was heard on the radio. It was about swimming in the river, “down there on the Danube, where it is most beautiful, on the shore paradise.” But everyone knows: The Danube is wild, the current is strong, no wonder that a spezl, as Dietl sings, is already as white as his face. There is another reason for the paleness, which another line of the song reveals: “And there Biwi had cigarettes with me.” The sentence is worth mentioning from a linguistic point of view because the letter a is omitted from the word cigarettes in the working people’s environment, leaving the cigarettes. The same applies to the word “Zigrettenbürscherl”. This is someone who wants to appear taller and more mature than his age. The adjective windy is often attached to the cigarette brush. The famous boxing match scene in the TV series Monaco Franze also includes the comment: “… of the cigarette boy, the windy one!”