Casual Fridays

Don't get between Germans and a good dinner. You don't know to what lengths they will go for good home-cooked meals. This story seemed pretty amusing.

Sausage-noshing German ambassadors used a 67 million GBP Eurofighter warplane to fly emergency supplies of mustard to a VIP party.

Diplomats in Croatia wanted to serve traditional white bangers at the bash to celebrate Germany's 60 years as a democracy but couldn't get the right mustard anywhere locally.

So they called in air support from the Luftwaffe who sent pilot Norbert Biehler with a case of the special sweet mustard for the party, reports Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List.

You might remember earlier stories about the German troops in Afghanistan requiring their allotments of beer and sausage. I do enjoy the occasional trip to the German restaurants myself. My weakness is the spaetzle. MMMmmmmm....

Comments

[Cheryl Rofer]

Mustard is serious stuff. If it didn't look like it needs to be refrigerated, I would bring back a tube (or maybe a case) of Põltsamaa sinep every time I go to Estonia. An Estonian friend at an American wedding where they served sausage, sauerkraut, and American mustard came back with spoons of the stuff on his plate to try to make up for the missing taste.

[Ray]

“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled....They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
American journalist and writer.

[Sven Ortmann]

A less amusing report tells about the plane being primarily flown in for a static display.