from here

Posted on February 8, 2011 by kathrin

Germany is big on regional products at the moment. See the recent reginonal products map by Zeit Magazine. There are two brands called “von hier” (from here) and they are involved in a court case to clarify who is the real “from here”.
Sounds like the village.
I would say that I’m from here, but this might be disputed locally. With food – as in “grown here” – it is all a bit clearer. Food simply needs to be grown here, processed here, and distributed here. And then you can have huge debates over how local locally grown sugar actually is – just as an example, since locally grown sugar made from sugar beets is only a response to the shortage of cane sugar from the colonies and some sugar wars. The live span of food is faster than the one of a human being. So a local sugar beet is a local sugar beet – never mind the roots. I’m a local but with bohemian roots, which means my grandparents got settled here as “Sudetendeutsche”, those of German nationality who were expelled in 1945 from countries formerly incorporated by the Third Reich, and my family history in the village is all post 2nd WW. Having grown up in a village where the parents of my contemporaries would considered myself as not “from here”, my only argument for being “from here”, is the moment you declare it as a fact yourself.
This aplies to Höfen and to Hackney.