Thursday, January 31, 2008

Germans lazy, overweight, no-good bums

Not even the German Ministry for Consumer Protection was prepared for such shocking results, and they have been ministering to consumers for years. A study made by Germany’s Federal Institute for Food and Nutrition has determined that Germans have become lazy and overweight no-good bums, and this despite the fact that many of them have cut down on their beer drinking dramatically. Although, come to think of it, they do still have a really rotten, pessimistic view about life in general and their economy in particular. But that’s beside the point, I guess.



“We knew they, I mean we were real slugs and all,” said a spokesman for the ministry. “But we had absolutely no idea we were such world class losers. I mean, talk about your American conditions. Sheesh.”

The study shows that about two thirds of German men and 51 percent of the women carry something called “excess fat” around with them all the time. This is up from 39 percent of the men and 47 percent of the women determined in a study done 20 years ago. The study also indicates that Germans have become much more “idle, desk-bound and lazy” and that German food has also become more “energy-dense”, something most food scientists had thought impossible up until now.

Consumer Protection Minister Horst Seehofer wasted no time in addressing the problem by pulling out and actually chewing on a carrot before live cameras at a news conference yesterday. "We need to educate people better," he said after spitting out several large chunks in napkin while nobody was looking. “And get Germans to start filling their lunch boxes with healthy and expensive fruits and vegetables instead of all that el cheapo bad food crap so readily available out there now. That’ll be a breeze.”

Essen bis zum Abwinken, aber immer ein paar Möhren zwischendurch.

Kommentare auf Deutsch? Klar, doch.

Posted by clarsonimus at 07:05:51 | Permanent Link | Comments (7) |
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1 - You notice how soccer players advertise things like Nutella. Have you every seen a sports figure on the box of a healty cereal?
Kinder chocolates is now doing the point system for EM stuff. Stuff your kid with chocolate so they can get free stuff. Who do you complain to about this kind of thing?
Oh, I haven't heard of anyone asking sponsors to buy more diabetic candies to throw at people at all the up coming parades. (Comment this)

Written by: AmaniS at 2008/01/31 - 15:18:10
2 - AmaniS, yeah. It's all over. I like those Milchschnitten (or whatever they are) commercials where the mom is sooo thrilled to be giving her kids "a whole portion of milk" or whatever with each one of those chocolate bars. You know that lots of people actually believe that kind of stuff, too. (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/01/31 - 15:54:11
3 - So, in the last twenty years, the percentage of women carrying excess fat has increased by 4 points, while men are up 18?? So who exactly is drinking less beer? fat women? Maybe the rate at which fat women are increasing beer consumption is slowing while men are clearly out of control...
 (Comment this)

Written by: kevin at 2008/01/31 - 16:41:06
4 - check that - men are up 28 points (or pints)!?
Wow - I am truly impressed (Comment this)

Written by: kevin at 2008/01/31 - 16:43:26
5 - kevin, she stood on a pint, I mean punt, at midnight... (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/01/31 - 18:47:02
6 - I find the idea that 51% of German women are over . Does that mean 49% are underweight? When I go to the supermarket it is always the thinest women with wine and chocolate. (Comment this)

Written by: AmaniS at 2008/02/01 - 10:33:37
7 - AmaniS, I think they're way off here, to tell you the truth. I just don't see German women, or men, that come anywhere near that kind of pleasantly plumb American-style overweight I'm thinking about. But hey, give them a little time. (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/02/01 - 21:17:47 in reply to: 6
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