Humor Sausage Wars?

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17706290

I think it fits in the humour prefix, but who knows?

N.

 

[jedidia]

Da scheint eben doch nicht alles Wurst zu sein! :lol:

Translates to "Looks like it's not all sausage to them after all".

'Bit of an ironic play upon words. In german, you can say "it's all sausage to me" (ist mir Wurst), which means "I don't care", "it's all the same to me". Making a major brouhaha about the name of a sausage is therefore rather amusing.

 

[mojoey]

I'll click on anything called Sausage wars...

 

[Notebook]

Sounds serious...We had a touch of politics and pasties recently:

The Chancellor in his Budget put VAT on hot food, but not on cold, so causing much confusion about hot pasties that then cool down on the counter...
Applies to pies too, I suppose.

Needless to say, its a non-story. As I understand, they collect VAT from the seller as they decide what volume of their sales are hot or cold.

Still, it kept the real politics off the front page for a while.

N.

 

[Jarvitä]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17706290

I think it fits in the humour prefix, but who knows?

N.

Slovenians are really trying too hard to claim foreign stuff as their own. See also: Lippizzaner horses (Austrian/Spanish), Oberkrainer music (Austrian), ridiculous territorial claims on Istria and Carinthia, etc...

 

[Ghostrider]

Slovenians are really trying too hard to claim foreign stuff as their own. See also: Lippizzaner horses (Austrian/Spanish), Oberkrainer music (Austrian), ridiculous territorial claims on Istria and Carinthia, etc...

Are they crazy? Everybody knows all that stuff is Greek.

 

[Sunhillow]

In Austria this kind of sausage often is named "Eitrige" (purulent) because the bits of molten cheese look a bit unhealthy

 

[Urwumpe]

Are they crazy? Everybody knows all that stuff is Greek.

No Greek had ever traveled into those valleys.

 

[NovaSilisko]

No Greek had ever traveled into those valleys.

And no Greek could afford to travel to them now!