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Beer-Proof Lederhosen

September 19, 2009
by cat

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.

Culture Shocks

Capital of Food Innovation

September 10, 2009
by cat

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.”

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Beer-Proof Lederhosen

Capital of Food Innovation