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Taste Test: Ham's German Bakers

For years, every month or so, we have been going over to Ham on a Saturday morning to the Backhaus German Bakers for rolls (Broetchen) and liverwurst. We also usually get a Bretzel and Rhubarb or Poppy seed cake. Some days are better than others, but it is always a treat. The rolls and liverwurst are far superiour to anything we have found in a British shop. Not to put down British bread, we love that, but rolls. Sorry, no

But we just found out about a new baker in Ham, Hansel & Pretzel German Delicatessen! We wanted to know who was best, but we don’t go often enough to be able to reliably compary, so we decided that the only way was to do taste test.

This morning we drove to both places, they are only about 300 meters apart, and bought roughly the same things. Here are our findings:

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