Something German we don't want to import.....

[Durruti]

Looks as though it's a developing trend.


"Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- When Berlin resident Simone Klostermann returned from vacation and couldn’t find her Mercedes SLK, she thought it had been towed. Police told her the 35,000- euro ($45,000) car had been torched.

“They’d squirted something flammable into the car’s engine block in the gap between the windshield and the hood,” said Klostermann. “The engine was completely destroyed.”

The 34-year-old’s experience isn’t unique in the German capital. At least 29 vehicles were destroyed in arson attacks this year, most of them luxury cars, according to police. The number is already about 30 percent of the total for 2008. The latest to go up in flames was a Porsche, on Feb. 14, two days after a Mercedes was set alight in a public car park."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&am...

Edited by Durruti on Saturday 28th February 12:37

[anonymous-user]

I think the U.K. is too apathetic for this kind of nonsense. The Germans seem to have many of these minority extremist marxist nut groups.

I remember years ago a German girl going on about emissions from aircraft and some other eco tosh, well before we were talking about MMGW. I only listened because she was really good looking.

[MacGee]

their sense of humour, womans hairy armpits...

[Puff Puff]

German cuisine.

[thinfourth2]

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

have you tried black bread?

[Oakey]

Nazis?


someone had to say it

[SimonV8ster]

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

I have to say that German salami is THE best, tried Danish salami and its crap.

[thehawk]

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

[Durruti]

I thought I'd get a lot more "outrageous, Commie bd" type responses but you lot move it straight onto food.......



I suppose it is The PIE & Piston after all.

[Fittster]

thehawk said:

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

In 2005 the distribution of stars by country was as follows. It is impractical for me to do this for subsequent years due to the difficulty of getting the data from Michelin.

Country	3 stars	2 stars	1 star	Total Stars
Austria	0	4	48	56
Belgium	3	12	79	112
Luxembourg	0	2	10	14
Netherlands	2	7	64	84
Czech Republic	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	1	9	11
Finland	0	1	2	4
France	26	70	402	620
Germany	6	14	166	212
Greece	0	0	3	3
Ireland	0	2	1	5
Italy	4	23	197	255
Norway	0	1	4	6
Poland	0	0	0	0
Portugal	0	1	6	8
Spain	4	10	91	123
Sweden	0	1	7	9
Switzerland	2	14	80	114
United Kingdom	3	10	201	230

source

A clear win for the Brits.

Edited by Fittster on Saturday 28th February 13:35

[anonymous-user]

Certainly not "light years" ahead then.

[Puff Puff]

thehawk said:

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

If you'd mentioned paprika chicken from Am Fuchsbau at Rheindahlen I might have agreed with you.

[thehawk]

Fittster said:

thehawk said:

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

In 2005 the distribution of stars by country was as follows. It is impractical for me to do this for subsequent years due to the difficulty of getting the data from Michelin.

Country	3 stars	2 stars	1 star	Total Stars
Austria	0	4	48	56
Belgium	3	12	79	112
Luxembourg	0	2	10	14
Netherlands	2	7	64	84
Czech Republic	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	1	9	11
Finland	0	1	2	4
France	26	70	402	620
Germany	6	14	166	212
Greece	0	0	3	3
Ireland	0	2	1	5
Italy	4	23	197	255
Norway	0	1	4	6
Poland	0	0	0	0
Portugal	0	1	6	8
Spain	4	10	91	123
Sweden	0	1	7	9
Switzerland	2	14	80	114
United Kingdom	3	10	201	230

source

A clear win for the Brits.

Edited by Fittster on Saturday 28th February 13:35

Got the latest results instead of 4 years ago? And it's the 3 star ones that are important.

In any case, I've eaten all over Germany and the quality is far higher than the UK in general. Places like Berlin and Munich have outstanding restaurants.

Edited by thehawk on Saturday 28th February 13:42

[anonymous-user]

thehawk said:

In any case, I've eaten all over Germany and the quality is far higher than the UK in general. Places like Berlin and Munich haves oustanding restaurants.

As do most U.K. cities. There may be good restaurants in Germany but it's not "light years ahead" or "far higher" as you say.

Anyway, isn't this thread about the Germans destroying each others cars?

[Dick_Phallus]

thehawk said:

Fittster said:

thehawk said:

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

In 2005 the distribution of stars by country was as follows. It is impractical for me to do this for subsequent years due to the difficulty of getting the data from Michelin.

Country	3 stars	2 stars	1 star	Total Stars
Austria	0	4	48	56
Belgium	3	12	79	112
Luxembourg	0	2	10	14
Netherlands	2	7	64	84
Czech Republic	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	1	9	11
Finland	0	1	2	4
France	26	70	402	620
Germany	6	14	166	212
Greece	0	0	3	3
Ireland	0	2	1	5
Italy	4	23	197	255
Norway	0	1	4	6
Poland	0	0	0	0
Portugal	0	1	6	8
Spain	4	10	91	123
Sweden	0	1	7	9
Switzerland	2	14	80	114
United Kingdom	3	10	201	230

source

A clear win for the Brits.

Edited by Fittster on Saturday 28th February 13:35

Got the latest results instead of 4 years ago? And it's the 3 star ones that are important.

In any case, I've eaten all over Germany and the quality is far higher than the UK in general. Places like Berlin and Munich have outstanding restaurants.

Edited by thehawk on Saturday 28th February 13:42

Is it really? I'd have thought the number of starred restaurants would indicate the general level of culinary prowess of each of the countries. The 3-star ones are more anomalies? Also the German one per capita looks even worse.

[Puff Puff]

If German cuisine is so good why aren't there German restaurants in every town in the UK?

[shalmaneser]

thehawk said:

Puff Puff said:

German cuisine.

They are lightyears ahead of Britain.

Have a count of Michelin starred restaurants in Germany vs the UK.

Have you actually ever eaten in Germany?

Good if you like meat and cheese...

although currywurst is good.

[Fittster]

thehawk said:

Got the latest results instead of 4 years ago? And it's the 3 star ones that are important.

It's the 3 star ones that are important after your original point has been disproved

I'll be happy to draw up a table for late years if you can provide the data.

Country	Percentage of population per million (2005)
Luxembourg	32.6
Switzerland	15.7
Belgium	11.0
France	10.5
Austria	6.9
Netherlands	5.3
Italy	4.5
United Kingdom	3.9
Spain	3.1
Germany	2.6
Denmark	2.1
Ireland	1.4
Norway	1.4
Sweden	1.0
Portugal	0.8
Finland	0.8
Greece	0.3
Czech Republic	0.0
Hungary	0.0
Poland	0.0

Another win for the Brits!!!

Edited by Fittster on Saturday 28th February 13:55

[thehawk]

Puff Puff said:

If German cuisine is so good why aren't there German restaurants in every town in the UK?

I'd wager there are more German restaurants worldwide than English ones.

[Fort Jefferson]

Most car fires are insurance scams, not extreminst attacks. They are bound to go up in the recession.