Milwaukee: A city that has its priorities straight

[beige_alert]

Say what you will about Milwaukee, that it's not as cool as Chicago, that a tiny village in Germany would have a fancier public transit system, that the weather may be interesting but interesting weather is not always a good thing, but there are some nice things about the place. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel might not be the finest thing in journalism, but it brought joy to my morning to find that not only had my paper not been stolen, but the top story on page one was this:





I'd link to the actual story on their web site except that it cannot be found there at the moment. Such is the Journal Sentinel's web site. Apparently, in 1432, Weimar issued some regulations for Thuringian rostbratwurst. This is exciting news for people fascinated by bratwurst such as Germans and Milwaukeeans. Indeed, it seems to be the most exciting thing happening in the world today as far as our local paper is concerened. It is joy, I tell you.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Nice discovery, indeed.

However, I have no sympathy for a MLB town whose paper doesn't put the Hot Stove League on the front page during the Winter Meetings. :-)

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Now you're the one speaking a foreign language! Hot Stove League?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Baseball offseason wheeling and dealing. So called because it used to be the discussions around a hot stove, waiting for spring to return and restore the natural order of things (baseball happening, warm days and nights...)

It happens that the annual formal Winter Meetings began today, in Nashville, and baseball news is much up front here (what with both our teams doing high-profile horse trading), despite that I search it out to begin with.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

In F1 the 'silly season' of contract renegotiation actually seems to stretch all year long.

[madfilkentist]

If you should never inquire about how laws and sausages are made, then laws about sausages must be even worse!

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

One German politician or other once said that "the happiest times for a country were always the blank pages in the history books". The same might be true for news papers. If this is the most exciting thing around your place, then you are safe of murder, car crashes, and tax raises, it seems.

That apart, I think that they made regulations for sausage first because it's so easy to hide all kind of junk in them... like saw dust... and things I don't want to dwell on really. Ever heard of "cut-me-own-throat Dibbler"?
It's much harder to do that with beer, and you'll taste it more easily. Still... it's amazing what you can put in beer, and people will still drink it. *yurx*

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Apparently we're only experiencing the routine, normal level of death and destruction today.

"cut-me-own-throat Dibbler" I've not heard of.

As for bad beer, well, I live in America! Not that I drink much of the stuff. Though I tried some in Germany that was pretty good.

[madfilkentist]

"cut-me-own-throat Dibbler" I've not heard of.

*handing you a shelfful of Discworld books to read*

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

I read a few a long, long time ago. With that context, I think the character sounds faintly familiar.

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

CMOT Dibbler is a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-Me-Own-Throat_Dibbler

He's selling "meat pies" in Ankh-Morpork that are rumored to be totally suitable for vegetarians, because they contain no meat products whatsoever. On the other hand they are not exactly suitable for any human being, so the vegetarian part might be moot.