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Newest Review: ... in the Holiday Inn and picking up clothes at the Gap, the hospitality employees in Frankenmuth can often be found wearing traditional colorful Bavarian dress including pig tails. For the full Frankenmuth experience you need to stop into Zehnders for the all you can eat chicken dinners, served with steins of American beer. The stores in town sell mostly Christmas decorations, but like all tourist destinations I have visited in Michigan, there is plenty of fudge available. If you look hard enough some of the candy stores do sell imported German ‘candy’. I thoroughly recommend the Mozart chocolates which are divine, but the rich t... more

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Freaky Frankenmuth (491 words)
by gollygumdrops - written on 15/06/01 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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Santa Claus just won’t leave this town in mid Michigan. Perched just off I-75 Frankenmuth bills itself as ‘Little Bavaria’, and many of the buildings are constructed to look like old style German homes and stores. Driving into the town you slowly become aware that you are exiting reality and entering a very strange, festive, Germanic twilight zone. During the holiday season, only the European flavour may seem odd, but to enjoy the utterly American craziness of Frankenmuth you need to visit in the summertime. In Frankenmuth it is always Christmas! Yes, even on Valentines or the Fourth of July this town rocks to the sound of carols. Even ...

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