Yes, Goetta was and still is a very poplular food around the
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area. My family usually eat it at
breakfast or lunch.
It came over with the people from northern Germany. There are many
varieties with different flavors as there are in many other foods.
Many people there recommend Glier's Goetta. You can order it from
[1]http://www.goetta.com/
My great aunt used to make her own. A few years ago she showed me that
the recipe she used was on the side of a box of steel oats. She lived
in Northern Kentucy at the time. She was born in Lüsche.
My grandparents frequently ate pumpernickel. Sometimes, they used it
instead of bread for a sandwich. I would put butter on it.
Another northern German dish was called "blood" something...... I'm
sure smeone else will know what this is.
Almost everyone in our family loves goetta. My grandmothers and my mother always made it. I make it a couple times a year because I live in Pennsylvania and miss it. Probably an acquired taste, bit I think it is delicious served with fried eggs. Only problem, the people in Cincinnati have started pronouncing it "getta." My grandmothers pronounced it "gutta." Steel cuts oats are the same as the pinhead oats available in Cincinnati.
This would be bloodwurst. It was common to eat it during the war.
Uncle Arnold would take for lunch EVERY day a slice of beet on rye
bread. He would tell his co-workers it was bloodwurst. IE He had money.
After the war he forbad he wife from ever serving beets again.
JWR
Another northern German dish was called "blood" something...... I'm
sure one else will know what this is.