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2007-09-24 Europe
Munich: Oktoberfest Visitors Devour 11 Oxen
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Posted by mrp 2007-09-24 09:44|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Oxen?
For what? Ox Tail Soup?

Why only 11 for 1,000,000 visitors?

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-24 13:00||   2007-09-24 13:00|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by 3dc 2007-09-24 13:07||   2007-09-24 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's see ... maybe 1300 lbs/ox of which ?60%? is edible (uninformed guess) .... times 7 carry the 14.5 ... that would be less than 1 oz per person.

Maybe eating wasn't the main activity .... (or maybe the prepared brats were particularly popular this year).
Posted by lotp 2007-09-24 13:15||   2007-09-24 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It looks like the main item is weisswurst, a veal sausage. More about Oktoberfest food here.
Posted by mrp 2007-09-24 13:22||   2007-09-24 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Bratwurt and those huge bread pretzels on a ribbon to hand round one's neck. It leaves the hands free for handling the Mass after all, and one isn't as likely to lose it in an alcoholic haze.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 13:27||   2007-09-24 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Stuttgart's Oktoberfest and Fishfest were a lot better than Munich's, which is just too damn big. Plus the Schwabians are friendly farm folk, compared to the Bavarians, who have a different personality.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-24 14:22||   2007-09-24 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Plus, speaking Schwabian is easy. Just learn a few nouns, act like you're drunk, and say "euh" a lot when pausing. Die, das, der, etc., all sound like "deh" in Schwabian.

It also helps if you can count up to five.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-24 14:24||   2007-09-24 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Key in counting over there is to remember that the thumb is 1, the index finger is 2. Mr. Wife ended up with a lot of unplanned beer until he learned that.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-24 14:32||   2007-09-24 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Mmmmmmmmm....Unplanned Beer
Posted by Homer S. 2007-09-24 14:38||   2007-09-24 14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 You call that a headline? It would've been much better as:

MUNICH: OXEN DEVOUR 11 OKTOBERFEST VISITORS
Posted by Mike 2007-09-24 15:17||   2007-09-24 15:17|| Front Page Top

#11 There was a headline?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-24 15:23||   2007-09-24 15:23|| Front Page Top

#12 There was a headline?

Something about corduroy pillows, no doubt.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-09-24 16:10||   2007-09-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Ox meat isn't bad when it is boiled or pressure cooked. It is great with curry sauce and fava beans.
Posted by Albemarle Elmuque2506 2007-09-24 16:10||   2007-09-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

#14 And a nice Chianti, AE?
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