It’s so reassuring to see that the EU is not letting itself be distracted from the really important things by all these moutain ranges of debt building up in the eurozone.
DT article – Austria-and-Slovenia-row-over-sausages
We frequently buy the sausages in question as part of a barbecue pack from Billa, the Austrian supermarket chain. I don’t remember them having a “proper” name – Wurst mit Käse, as I recall. So heavily indebted member states are paying vast sums to a bunch of eurocrats to sort out this sort of problem! To quote the German – ‘raus, ‘raus, ‘raus!
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Thank you, Soutie, for improving my link.
As I’m sure you know, Sheona, there is nothing in life quite as important as the appelation of sausages.
What’s a few measly billard euro or ten between friends? That’s all water under the bridge, surely.
But sausages! That’s important! Sausages are such an important part of the social fabric of life that any attempt to plagiarise makes the world, from Shanghai to Montevideo to Copenhagen, turn its head in attention.
I sometimes think we are living in Alice in Wonderland country.
I bags the teapot!
No, Christina, in European Union teapot bags you!
This certainly comes into the “You couldn’t make it up!” category.
Not the teapot with the half-drowned Dormouse in it, Christina? Yuk!