Catherine Conner
Posts tagged omg
Beer-Proof Lederhosen
Sep 19th
In honor of today’s Oktoberfest start (which of course has nothing to do with us in Northern Germany, but since everyone outside Germany assumes it’s a German-wide phenomenon, I’ll play along with the stereotype):
Oktoberfest is a great tourist mecca, but who wants to shell out big bucks for traditional Tracht that will be worn once a year somewhere that they will be subject to the rigors of organized drunkenness?
One Austrian has the answer: swimming trunks designed to look like traditional Lederhosen.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,649490,00.html
I can hear the Bavarians crying into their beer. Oh, and don’t miss the accompanying Dirndl Bikini.
Capital of Food Innovation
Sep 10th
Never have I been so proud to be Texan. I thought that deep-fried Coke was the limit. But no. Deep-fried butter. Just one of the many goodies premiered at the Texas state fair.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/09/fair_explores_new_frontier_in.html
Can’t help noticing the creator has a sense of irony as thick as his arteries:
“I mean, butter by itself does not taste good,” Gonzales said. “Nobody just grabs a stick of butter and eats it. That would be gross.”
