May 30, 2008

In the culottes, news...

Ah the French. With their passions for short leaders, shortcrust pastry and, so it would seem, short memories. A new book is raising ire over the raised spires during the Nazi Occupation of France.

Patrick Buisson's 1940-1945 Années Erotiques claims that the incoming bratwurst went down rather well among war-widowed mademoiselles.

Buisson points to a telltale spike in the birthrate in 1942, not to mention an overburdened sewer reeling from spent condoms and a torrent of oui!

He also points to a cold winter and low supplies of coal, which obliged a bold new means of central heating.




1 comments:

trixie said...

Incoming bratwurst? Sacré bleu de la tour Eiffel, mon chouchouliquotte coquin.

Here's metaphor made real. 20th c. history via food. Lethal bratwurstism: http://unemployed-at-last.blogspot.com/2008/03/burgers-v-kebabs.html