Traditional sweets
There is a certain café in Kyoto.
It only has 4 counter seats, and there is just one café staff member.
She welcomes you with a smile everyday, every time.
The café sells traditional cakes.
There are some sweets that are traditional European cakes on sale in the café which is Sashertorte、Frankfurter Kranz monthly changing, and cookies as well.
Tourists from Germany
One day, a mother who was in her 60s and her son who was in his 30s came to the café. They were from Germany, and they had traveled in Japan.
The café sells vanillekipfel which is said to have originated in Austria or Germany.
The son told the café staff member that his mother makes vanillekipfel at home, and it is the best one for him.
To know new sweets.
The café staff member asked them what traditional German sweets were. She wanted to learn it and have a peer who is a patisserie chef to make it.
Thinking for a moment, they said “Do you know HARIBO?”
She expected they told her something-torte as pastries.
She googled HARIBO later, and she found that HARIBO is German company, founded in 1920.
Yes, HARIBO is an authentic traditional German sweets.
And it tastes good.
Glossary
for sale…売りに出されている状態、個人が販売する時、
on sale…割引価格で売りに出されている、店頭で販売するとき、
monthly changing…月替わり
be in one’s 60…60代の
originated (adj)…発祥の
be said to…と言われている
sweets…砂糖が使われたお菓子全般、
pastry (n)…パイやタルトなど
have 人 do…自分にはできないことをさせる、してもらう
peer (n)…地位の等しい人、同僚
thinking for a moment…ちょっと考えて、
later…後日