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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Visit to English Garden?

Found this by Googling, "little known facts about Oktoberfest":

"Munich can honestly boast about its English Garden, for it’s the largest in the world. But that’s not the juicy part. The juicy part is that one of the unique qualities was that one could bare it all in the garden while drinking a pint of beer. This…practice, for lack of a better word, is fading as some have deemed a certain lack of attractive nudes recently. However, if you hurry, you can still view bare flesh throwing back a warm one in the gardens–for now."

What? A "warm one?" I like my bier C-O-L-D. I know that Europeons (sic) are more into cool, but surely we will not be forced to drink it warm?

4 comments:

BarleyMan said...

1. Englischer Garten? Don't get Paulaner Girl started on this thread again! ;-)

2. German beer is served cool... not sure where this writer was... but the bare flesh thing is pretty neat.

Barbus said...

Holmes, welcome to the "old world". Here things are different to what you read about us in your country. Already in the sixties we were seen as "different". But was this not just jealousy. Hopefully the wheather is not too cold, else you won't see anything due to the "mist/steam" (not sure how to call)

Barbus said...

BTW; I remeber Homer Simpson saying:

I like my beer cold... my TV loud... and my homosexuals flaming

Homer what you won't see in the Englisher Garten is the TV.:)

paulaner girl said...

thank god, no sports on TV in the beer garden.

But speaking of Englisher Garten............................