The Daily Mash did an article recently pointing out how pointless and depressing these are.
Now, you may think that something got lost in translation, that the Germans have proper Xmas markets (they are not inherently Bavarian) and that the UK version is somehow a pale imitation and blatantly commercialised copy.
Nope.
I went to one of these in Bavaria a quarter of a century ago, and it was just some people garden sheds with fairy lights and cotton wool snow on the high street selling overpriced vaguely Xmas-themed tat. So we all had a couple of plastic beakers of over-priced Glühwein (that's like mulled wine but close to boiling point with a shot or two of vodka in it) and buggered off home again.
Thursday, 20 December 2012
"Bavarian-style Christmas markets"
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That rather homely Allsopp woman was on telly the other night urging us to fly over to Munich purely to pick up some festive nicknacks
Yes, the German Christmas markets are just as disappointing in Germany as they are here. In that respect they are completely authentic.
BE
Y, as a general rule, she is wrong about everything, and this is no exception.
BE, tee hee.
I thought such cultural/commercial crap was only imported into the UK from the US, but now I realise that we are suckers for this sort of thing from anywhere.
That explains the appeal of gluhwein: the vodka. I have been buying it for years from Lidls and never got the point of it (apart from its being cheap.) This year they have stopped selling it, just as I've got the inside info!That's capitalism for you!
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