Vegan Mini Haxn

This was my lunch today - Bavarian 100% vegan potato salad made by our wonderful local butcher's provision merchants in Ottobeuren - Fischbach.

The grocer's name alone gives it away: Fisch = Fennel, Bach = Stream. Boris would have no issue with this line and could sell it to your average UK citizen: hook, line and sinker. It's actually not difficult. The first rule is to simply ignore 50% of the evidence. Should anyone ask about the missing 50% just pass them off as unpatriotic vegetarians.

I tried the plan and sent the photo by WhatsApp to a living qualified vegan expert. Having a vegan daughter he knows an egg when he sees a hen. The verdict came postwendend zurück. "100% Vegan and passes the UK border control ban on the import of illegal EU meat whether cooked, alive, digital or analogue". Na, also as the Germans say - need I say more.
 
And anyway who would risk a boat crossing in the choppy seas, currently in the very stormy Channel - In England, you may know this as the so-called "English Channel". Now I happen to know that there is only one other country that calls it by this name and that is Denmark - they simply want to save their bacon exports to the UK.

Why is that the Brits dress up their words? Surely the average person can see the deceit? Pig meat is "pork", cow meat is "beef", chicken meat is "poultry". Doesn't it all sound ever so nice and harmless and fit for the glorious British Sunday Roast table? Wake up Brexit means Brexit.


Like a load of meek lambs, following the herd of sheep over the White Cliffs of Dover, with the Chief Mutton broadcasting encouragement over a live giant public viewing screen from her desk in Downing Street. Doesn't help when the Thomas Hardy type Gabriel shepherd is fannying around dithering at the precipice with the broken electric fence line in his hand but afraid to fix it.

I think it's time for me to do an "English for Idiots" refresher course. All this Der, Die, Das is clearly getting to me.

AND stop watching late night debates from the green, cow skin-clad, seats of that vulnerable animal stables in London where they follow it up the next day (today) with the most perverse, childish and ridiculous fight, bouncing up and down off their backsides like a herd of American Thanksgiving Day poultry.


And just one matter which doesn't call in to question the basis of democracy. Please you people in power and responsibility, stop calling 17,410,742  votes, the "majority of the UK population" or even voters.

In return, I will never again post a photo of a chunk of Bavarian Schweinshaxe without a portion of Sauerkraut on the plate.


It really is a "mini" haxn and has no BMW undertones. The butcher cooks them, sadly too seldom, for sale on his stand up or To Go snack counter. Always a selection of cooked meats and vegetables. Recommended.

AND the potato salad IS vegan. Unlike the Prussians up north who make it with mayonnaise, the Bavarians simply use oil and vinegar.