just some thoughts:

europeans don't make good bread, only germany and austria, maybe switzerland too. most other countries stick to the tasteless white bread. it's the first thing germans miss, when they stay in foreign countries for more than a month.

Tirol is half austrian, half italian. but true, it has been switching between the two over the time.

Pizza is loved by the germans, along with döner and pasta. But pasta is rarely served as fast-food. It's not because italy is close, it's because hundreds of thousand italian people came to germany some time after the second world war. You have italian restaurants all over the place, and also turkish and greek imbisses. (they came in large numbers, too)

Salzburg = Mozart? Yeah, your right, I've seen that, too. My hometown is Bonn = Beethoven, really annoying, but the only way to put yourself on a japanese tourist agencies map :P

If you block traffic on a highway, you go against the rules and get a fine, which can be quite expensive.

Traffic signs, especially in cities, are really a total pain. They have thousands, because they think everything must be regulated. One of the results is, that many german drivers don't have common sense, they only distinguish between "i am right" and "you were wrong" ;)

The bottled water topic has a history in most countries, i guess. But truth, tap water in central europe is one of the cleanest waters you can drink. That's why the lobbyists invented the fizzled water, I guess. I never liked it either, they don't drink it in other european countries afaik.

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