Mmmmmm. The smell... Onions..... Ketchup... Sausages......
There's a bavarian bratwurst van outside the shop and it's killing us....
On an unrelated matter, I was hobnobbing in soho last night at a faber launch and saw a woman I used to work with about 6 years ago at Waterstone's Islington. I meant to go over and say hello but never quite got round to it before I realised she'd gone.
So on the miniscule chance she's reading this - Hello Monica, how's it going? Whatya up to these days?
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I ignored the German sausages and went to Marsh Ruby instead...
ReplyDeleteThe diet I'm on says curry is better than sausages.
But surely currywurst would be the healthiest of the lot!
ReplyDeleteCurrywurst - now there's a business idea...
ReplyDeleteBest Currywurst, southwest corner of Wittenbergplatz, Berlin. A fine pork sausage, cut into about 6 uneven chunks, smothered with ketchup and curry powder, served on a flimsy cardboard 'plate' with plastic fork, about DM 1,50 if I remember rightly...which tells you when I last had one!
ReplyDeleteHang on - there's now a currywurst museum in Berlin...
ReplyDeleteMy German is pretty poor but that looks to me like a proposed Currywurst museum looking for sponsorship. Maybe C&P should step in?
ReplyDeleteLia! Are you out there? You live in Germany so I assume you have mastered the lingo - what does it say?
ReplyDeleteTrouble is if we can't get some wealthy sort to buy us a Print On Demand machine for £50,000 (a mere!) then what are the chances of finding sponsorship for a currywurst museum?
On second thoughts people are way more into feeding their stomachs than they are into feeding their brains - Let's start a currywurst museum!
We could put it in our cellar...
It's been a few years since I was a) in Germany, or b) dishing out EC cash to 'worthy' projects like this, but this looks like a doozy for some Euro-funding (a small amount, say, 3.5 million euros). Usually with EC projects, you need a partner entity from another country to qualify. C&P - step forward.
ReplyDeleteMy guess would be, you'd need about 100k Euro for a POD machine in the cellar to produce an English-language currywurst guide, as an important pillar of this piece of European culture.
You just need a good acronym now. No EC project I ever got involved in went anywhere until you had a decent acronym sorted. If you can get it to spell "WURST" or something like that, so much the better...
World United for Revolutionary Sausage Tastes?
ReplyDeleteany better suggestions?
Currywurst Union for the Radical RevolutionarY: Wake Up Readers, and Sample This!
ReplyDeleteOMG. These are brilliant. These should (in the hands of a brilliant proposal writer) be worth the price of a POD on their own...
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