The Viktualienmarkt is a place of specifically Munich enjoyment. No matter what the cost: Before the coal is worth nothing at some point, it will be smashed on the head somewhere else.
“What do you mean crisis, Spatzl?” is one of the most famous quotes from Monaco Franze. It will soon be 40 years old – but because it fits so well with the times, the slogan is even printed on T-shirts and red wine labels today, it is the identifying mark of a new Munich species: the crisis denier.
For example, while the pandemic denier, also known as the Corona crackpot, marching on the street and spreading confused stuff and presumably living on toilet paper, the mean crisis denier is a rather sympathetic type of connoisseur. If he marches somewhere, then at most to a bar to sit and drink and eat energy prices, inflation, the existence of pandemic deniers and the rest of the horrors of this world.
An increased occurrence of the Munich crisis denier can also be observed at the Viktualienmarkt. There he is currently trying to get rid of all the money that he couldn’t spend during the Oktoberfest because on the one hand he doesn’t like Corona and on the other hand he prefers it warm, the Ice Wiesn this year wasn’t really for him. Before the money is no longer worth anything at some point, it’s just going to be hit on the head somewhere else, it has to go.
As a status symbol, a plastic bag filled with lettuce and soup greens directly at the market is enough for the crisis denier, a kind of Birkin bag among shopping bags. With it he proudly stands in line in front of the Max and Moritz wine bar or the beer garden bar and enjoys the admiring looks of the tourist groups. The more tradition-conscious specimens of his species are more drawn to the Café Nymphenburg or the Kleiner Ochsenbrater. For the Mallorcan subspecies, which is now spreading, there are pumps with Aperol Spritz on the tables in the Brezenreiter bar. You know that mainly from Ballermann. The church foundation, which owns the premises, obviously knows what is good for the salvation of souls.
The Viktualienmarkt shows that you don’t have to go on a big trip to escape from the world, the crisis deniers are leading the way. You would love to be one of them. But you have to be able to afford to go bankrupt on a large scale.