Paraguayan sausage casings save Switzerland/Cervelat gerettet
am 06.05.2008 von Transblawg
Its been widely reported that an EU ban on Brazilian beef sausage casings has threatened the Swiss national sausage, the cervelat. Most other sausage casings fail to curl and split. truly madly deeply was concerned.
It now appears that sausage casings from Paraguay may escape the …
Curry sausages with mustard / Deutsche Würste durch Schweizer Augen
Transblawg / Matthew Allen at swissinfo reports on problems for German and Swiss sausages now that the EU has banned Brazilian sausage skins. The cervelat was facing extinction from the national menu following an import ban on Brazilian cow intestines used…
Death by sausage / Bockwursttötung
Transblawg / This is a bit late, but in answer to the person who asked me recently how you could kill someone with a Bockwurst - surely it was too soft to hit someone over the head with? No, it was suffocation. Yahoo News: FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police hav…
Currywurst museum opens/Ich bin kein Frankfurter
Transblawg / There’s an English report on the Deutsche Welle site about the Currywurst (curry sausage) museum in Berlin. A skinless pork sausage smothered in curry-laced ketchup, currywurst is sometimes served whole but most often chopped into bite-sized mo…
Franconian Sausage Co. Ltd. / Fränkische Bratwürste im Vereinigten Königreich
Transblawg / In the Independent, Mark Hix writes on sausages: I occasionally get comments that the sausages we serve in our restaurants, lovingly created by Jean-Paul Habermann of the Franconian Sausage Company, are a bit tough. That can only mean that they must…
Making sausages
Transblawg / Today I am busy, so I offer this slightly off-topic entry - it does have to do with living abroad. There is a wonderful British website called sausagemaking.org. (Molesworth admirers: be careful not to misspell sossages). It has sausage-making ki…
Franconian menu / Fränkische Speisekarte
Transblawg / Waldschänke Nürnberg (deutsche Speisekarte) (Thanks to Jutta - I didn’t ask her what she ate) Cordially welcomely in the Waldschaenke sport bar Frankish courts Pig roast with Kloss and salad 6,30 Schaeuferle roasted with Kloss and…
Toeing the line in Bavaria/Wurst und Würste
Transblawg / My favourite Bavarian TV programme, quer (on Thursdays) reported last week on the sad case of the master butcher Franz Xaver Kremhöller from Niederalteich, who finished up paying a 200 euro fine because his meat salad (a Bavarian delicacy) conta…
Sonntagslinks
MarkenBlog / IPR Infringements: Glass Is Half Full or Half Empty? Vereinigte Staaten. Das Patent- und Markenamt der Vereinigten Staaten hat seinen Strategieplan für die Zeitspanne 2007-2012 veröffentlicht IP Directive to harmonise criminal law across Europe…
Law Vodcast
Transblawg / Video-Podcast von Kanzlei Dr. Bahr, heute Das neue Telemediengesetz A vodcast on the new German Telemedia Act: the text is graphically illustrated practically down to the last word. You can tell it's German by the illustration of 'Abwarten u…
Fürth pedestrian zone/Fuzo
Transblawg / The finished end (a bit grubby): Work going on: Here Jürgen’s antiques shop (plus Jürgen, who did not mind being photographed) with KW44 indicating the work should be finished in the 44th calendar week (around November 1st). A lot…
Alien Torts Claims Act
Jurabilis / The Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) of 1789 grants jurisdiction to US Federal Courts over any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. In 1980 a Paraguayan man successfully…
Swiss law blogs/Schweizer Blawgs?
Transblawg / Are there Swiss legal blogs? I asked myself this question, and at the same time found the NZZ had published an article on specialized weblogs in Switzerland, from which it appeared that there are very few weblogs of any kind...…
High prices in Switzerland/Hohe Preise in der Schweiz
Transblawg / High prices for Swiss products largely result from restrictive import legislation. In future, any product permitted for sale in the EU is to be permitted for sale in Switzerland. Neue Züricher Zeitung: So dürfen nach den heute geltenden Reg…
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Few issues have generated so much emotion in Switzerland as the possible demise of the cervelat. At the start of the year, the Swiss were horrified by news that supplies of their “national sausage” might run out because of a short…
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