Veggie Day apocalypse

Remember our complaints about how beautifully lame and insignificant the current German general election campaign is?

That was yesterday, yesterweek, and yestermonth.

It all changed suddenly, and there is buzz, raw emotion and press coverage up and down the wazzu. Germany's Green Party, a party of eco folks who even made it into a federal government once, has stirred up the debate with a bold, fresh locally sourced proposal.

The Greens want all government cafeterias and canteens to have one vegetarian day every week, one day when hard working federal government employees will only be able to order meatless dishes in their subsidized work feeding places.

The Veggie Day campaign has the great German name "Veggie Day" in most of the German media. Yes, they use this English term, co-incidentally inflicting collateral damage on the country's proclaimed, court approved requirement for foreigners to learn German as a token of their cultural adaptation.

The name calling is varied and, at times, at least somewhat creative.

Nanny state, bean counters (that's the creative part), incredible, overreach, and more not calorie controlled terms fly at the serving counters nationwide. And tough questions are asked especially in the traditionally Catholic southern states: does fish count as meat?

Their sausages in a twist, numerous employees fear they have to venture off the protected premises of the big grey complexes to buy a sausage at the corner stand in the rain.

Which can be hard, not because of cold winter rain but because the majority of small food places in the big cities where big governing takes place are largely Chinese and Thai fast food joints, both run mostly by Vietnamese to boot. Which would leave the burger chains for the hungry masses of public servants.

"We do those on the weekends with the kids", one German was overheard, "but you cannot expect us to go there on Veggie Day, too. That's just overbearing."

From our distant vantage point in the hills, the K-Landnews team will be uniquely positioned to watch whatever is going to happen after the elections. We are drawing up plans to send the K-Landnews Random Research team to the nearest burger place for a day or two before the elections to count cars in the parking lot at lunchtime. This would give us a baseline figure for the veggie day apocalypse in the unlikely event of the Green Party making it into government and getting their wishes granted.

On Veggie Day, we can then go to the burger place again and count the lunchtime traffic in order to give our readers reliable figures.

Or maybe we'll just stay home and blog.