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Müsli

Learn a funny, quirky German word each week with DW's Word of the Week feature. This week: Müsli.

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Served as a light dinner in Switzerland, müsli is much more than your basic milk and grains -- and the better varieties of müsli don't taste anything like the cardboard box they're poured out of. Many Germans, in fact, eschew the boxes altogether. Instead, they buy grains and dried fruits to blend their own high-fiber mixture with milk, yogurt and sometimes even chocolate. Nowadays in Germany, many types of breakfast cereal -- even those that aren't low in sugar and high in fiber -- are often referred to as müsli.

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