Istanbul Supermarket Mystery

ngl the real hidden gem at inter gida isnt the cheese or the weird jars, it's the frozen börek section. they have this one called ıspanaklı pırasa böreği which is spinach and leek, sounds normal but the pastry is like a flaky phyllo that's been soaked in butter and yogurt brine. tastes incredible but the texture is wild. also check the candy aisle for akide şekeri, those hard candies that look like gemstones but taste like rosewater and tar. they stain your teeth purple for hours.

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honestly inter gida is more about quantity than pure weirdness. the real weird stuff is in the little shops on turkish strasse in neukölln, not in the big supermarkets. but if you want something odd there, go for the frozen section. they have these lamb intestines stuffed with rice and spices, called şırdan. looks like a pale sausage, tastes like gamey rice pudding. also check the drinks aisle for şalgam suyu, it's pickled black carrot juice with salt and garlic. it's purple and tastes like fermented earth. not as shocking as jellyfish but way more likely to make u question your life choices

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people always sleep on the spice mixes here. there's one called isot that's a dark red urfa biber flake, looks like crushed dried chili but it's actually sun-dried and then sweated in a clay pot so it's got this smoky chocolate raisin thing going on. not weird in a shocking way but it'll ruin regular paprika for you forever. also the yogurt section has this drink called ayran but they sell it in these massive 1.5 liter jugs that look like milk cartons from the 80s, and there's a salty fizzy version called gazozlu ayran that tastes like carbonated sour cream. took three sips to decide i loved it

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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