06 June, 2011

Decline and Fall

There is something richly significant about the German E.coli epidemic: thousands of people have suffered, and they now believe the most likely source was a Germaqn farm growing mung beans.

Mung Beans? Thousands and thousands of Germans are eating Mung beans?

Whatever happened to the great German meal of a kilo of sausage, half a pig and two litres of beer, with a vegetable course which amounted to one small pickled cucumber?

Come to think of it this must be why they initially blamed the Spanish cucumbers: they reasoned that it couldn't be German, it couldn't be the sausage or the beer, so it must be the cucumber.

You read it here first: this namby pamby diet marks the end of German hegemony in Europe.

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