Yes, I actually used that awful pun.
I don’t care. Ich stehe dazu (I stand by it).
Germany news: Minister sounds alarm on food security – Germany’s farming minister says the country needs to be more prepared for future food emergencies.
Germany’s Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer says farms and food producers must be included in future Bundeswehr emergency exercises, calling them “critical infrastructure.”
He warned that if agriculture failed, “our food supply would collapse.”
Sausage is a grill’s best friend.
German states debate who invented Bratwurst sausages – A row has broken out between two German states, Bavaria and Thuringia, as to who can lay claim to inventing the Bratwurst sausage.
Until now, the “Wurstkuchl” tavern in Bavaria has claimed to be “the oldest Bratwurst stand in the world.”
Die Wurstkuchl is situated on the Stone Bridge in Regensburg on the Danube River. The oldest documented evidence of a cook or a food stall at the Stone Bridge is said to date back to 1378.
But now, historians in Erfurt, Thuringia’s state capital, have come across a document from 1269 that mentions people who rented a building with a meat-roasting stand (Brathütte) and a roasting pan (Bräter) – more than 100 years earlier than the Regensburg sausage stand.
Sorry. But somebody had to say it.
German activist Maja T. goes on hunger strike in Hungary
German anti-fascist activist Maja T. has been held in isolation in a Hungarian prison for one year now. The case highlights the state of the rule of law in Viktor Orban’s Hungary.
That oligarch was really cruising for a bruising. Take a bow, Germany. Looks like there will be a sail on megayachts in Hamburg soon…
European authorities seize oligarch’s megayacht in German port – Authorities in Germany have seized Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s 500-foot megayacht, the Dilbar, as part of the package of sanctions against the Kremlin and its supporters, Forbes magazine reported.
The ship was taken by authorities in the north German port of Hamburg on Wednesday. The megayacht is estimated to be worth $600 million.
Water are you still doing here?
Buoy, I’d get out of there if I were you! But don’t be upset when you go to the back of the boat and the captain gives you a stern look.
You bunch of ferries.
Storm Ylenia: Three injured after a huge wave smashes through ferry windows in Hamburg, Germany.
Or treeson, I should say. What? They’re already ready to give up after a mere six years and just… leaf?
German police confront treehouse activists after six-year standoff – Hundreds of police officers have descended on a patch of forest in western Germany occupied by activists living in treehouses, in an escalation of a long-running environmental battle.
Dozens of protesters have occupied 60 treehouses, some as high as 25 metres off the ground, since 2012 in an attempt to protect the ancient Hambach forest from being felled to make way for the expansion of an open-pit coalmine.
Why, I’m shocked. Wood you believe it? And they were doing such a treemendous job up there, too. What do they do now? Look for a new branch of work?
Polizei holt ersten Hambach-Aktivisten von Plattform.
Who threw those tomatoes at Angela Merkel, I mean.
They were probably just trying to catsup in the polls.
“Well, whoever did it,” one guy said. “I love you from my head tomatoes.”
Lettuce pray that doesn’t happen again.
German police say they’re investigating who threw two tomatoes at Chancellor Angela Merkel during an election campaign event in the southwestern city of Heidelberg. Police spokesman David Faulhaber told The Associated Press on Wednesday the tomatoes came from a group of hecklers on the sidelines. Witnesses Tuesday said they had been yelling things like “hypocrite” and “traitor to the people” in apparent criticism of Merkel’s migrant policies.
PS: What’s red and invisible? No tomatoes.
Boy oh boy. Drunken tourists these days (this story is really earie, folks).
Berlin police say a 43-year-old Norwegian tourist is in custody after biting off part of the ear of a man who tried to break up a fight between him and a dark-skinned German passenger he’d allegedly taunted as being a terrorist.
Police said Monday the intoxicated tourist started the fight Sunday night on a regional train in Berlin, accusing the other passenger in English of being a terrorist and asking if he had a bomb.
I guess they’re going to charge him with a misdemeanear now. And why the hell didn’t the train’s enginear step in?
Tourist beißt Streitschlichter einen Teil des Ohrs ab.
Germany will legalise medical cannabis in early 2017.
Now the government just has to figure out how to grow the stuff – The ultimate goal of German health authorities is to grow medical marijuana on German soil at specially approved sites.
It is a high art, after all. And knowing how our half-baked buds in government regularly blow things sky high, the whole thing might just end up going to pot. I bet you it’s going to toke them forever to sucseed, in other words.
Um die Versorgung mit Cannabis in kontrollierter Qualität sicherzustellen, will die Regierung den Anbau der Droge zu medizinischen Zwecken unter staatlicher Kontrolle ermöglichen. Über den Anbau wacht das Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte.
Like what’s the pig deal? I guess you could say I am disgruntled, folks.
Sow what do you mean that some politicians in Schleswig-Holstein want pork products removed from “cafes, daycare centers and state schools across the state to prevent offending Muslims?”
Well, I’m with some of their reactionary colleagues who are now campaigning to make pork mandatory in public canteens and schools there.
I’m rooting for them, so-to-speak. One should never truffle with tradition.
Dienstag ist Schwienstag. Die Geschichte einer vermeidbaren Sauerei.
Observing Hermann 