Perhaps living in an inner suburb of a capital city? yes
with rye bread you need to keep the "cut face" out of the air as much as possible to keep it from going stale
in primary school rye is all i ever ate!
although german great is awesome, im not very knowledgeable about it as the Bavarian/Swabian area where my parents came from I dont think had many specialities (of bread) from memory.
there were other things such as trout dishes, Spaeztle, lentils, sausages, cakes and dumplings
the dumplings - Maultasche, are simply the best thing I have ever eaten, some seriously full bellies on Sunday lunch at Grandmas eating those!!!
