Prime Minister Markus Söder visited the family-run butcher’s shop Meyer GmbH & Co. KG in Nuremberg on Thursday and decorated it with all kinds of meat products, emphasizing the importance of the butcher’s trade. A life without sausages is theoretically possible, but pointless, O-Ton Söder.
It wasn’t just a visit, but a statement, as Bavaria’s top food taster has been campaigning for months against the unfortunate Greens, who want to ban Bavarians from their meat loaf. Nobody says that at all, but if they do, then at least nobody can say that the CSU boss didn’t say it all along.
He particularly likes Drei im Weckla, if only because of the bond he has with his hometown of Nuremberg, but his followers have also seen him eat Schäufele, Lüngerl, blood sausages and liver sausages. Sometimes asparagus or a salad, so that the vegetarians press “I like”.
And now, in the middle of the election campaign, a sausage dispute is raging in Söder’s “free south” of all places, although in contrast to the “Ampelnorth” everyone is allowed to eat what they like.
But not so in Würzburg. There the visitors of the popular harbor summer are to be tied up and force-fed with meatless meal substitutes. At least that’s what it sounds like in the heated debate. On closer inspection, the culture department has decided that only vegetarian dishes should be offered at the harbor summer events. On the one hand, because Würzburg wants to be climate-neutral in just a few years, on the other hand, because the meat supply has been very small so far and, moreover, there was hardly any demand.
The FDP was immediately reminded of the Kulturkampf, but suspected that they had gotten used to it main post according to the CSU and warns that humans are not suitable for eating hay and meadows. What else is said on the internet is mercifully kept secret.
So far, Söder has not been announced for the opening of the port summer, but that would not be surprising, since in the election year hardly a goldfish pond can be filled without the presence of the Prime Minister. But what then? Würzburg’s mayor is from the CDU, against whom he can hardly campaign. But he could at least demonstratively bring a few cans of fried sausages to Würzburg’s green climate mayor, or Hubert Aiwanger right away, so that he could explain to the people of Würzburg what can happen to a construction worker if he’s only ever a vegetable (“If he only gets meat once a week and only lettuce, he falls off the scaffolding on the third day.”) So that they can see what they get out of their sausage fight.