CashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.uk · 8 months agoJust how German are "German Christmas Markets"?message-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up120arrow-down1message-squareJust how German are "German Christmas Markets"?CashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.uk · 8 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
All the staff are bloody English! How am I meant to practice German if none of them bloody speak it?! False advertising.
minus-squareCashewNut 🏴@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoManchester and Brum have them round Xmas time selling ‘German’ Bratwurst and beer for £8 with lots of German flags waving. People were buying tiny pots of baked beans with curry powder in them for silly money. If they plan to charge me a tenner for a sausage I demand to be served in bloody German!
minus-squareTreczoks@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 months agoOK, one thing I can tell you is that “baked beans with curry powder” is 100% NOT genuine for a German Christnas market.
minus-squareRBG@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoPaying silly money for it IS however very genuine for a German Christmas market.
Manchester and Brum have them round Xmas time selling ‘German’ Bratwurst and beer for £8 with lots of German flags waving.
People were buying tiny pots of baked beans with curry powder in them for silly money.
If they plan to charge me a tenner for a sausage I demand to be served in bloody German!
OK, one thing I can tell you is that “baked beans with curry powder” is 100% NOT genuine for a German Christnas market.
Paying silly money for it IS however very genuine for a German Christmas market.
Well, yes indeed!