Stinky fingers in the dough: Confectioner is angry about corona measures - with a very special pastry

Bakers Jakob and Xaver Neumeier expect up to 50 percent sales losses due to the second lockdown in Bavaria.

Your reaction: you create a donut - in the shape of a smelly finger.

• Many companies are suffering from the second corona lockdown.

• A baker from Bavaria created a stinky finger donut out of anger about the corona measures.

• The pastries are regularly sold out.

Bayerisch Gmain - The master pastry chef Jakob Neumeier and his brother Xaver from Bayerisch Gmain (Berchtesgadener Land district)

vent

their anger over the

in donut form: The two have created a "frustrating finger" - a fist with an extended middle finger.

The reason for the pastries filled with sweet apricot jam: The two expect a 50 percent drop in sales.

"The second lockdown destroys our business."

Coronavirus: Bayerisch Gmain: Frust-Krapfen is regularly sold out

The

well received: Neumeier reveals that they are regularly sold out.

There are orders from private customers, a bus company has ordered a bulk delivery, and the proposal has even come from Berlin to send a package to the capital.

Several media had already reported on the

idea.

"The second lockdown destroys our business"

Master confectioner Jakob Neumeier 

The two confectioners want with it in his own words in the Corona * -Crisis "a

".

The family runs two bakeries, one in Bad Reichenhall, the other in Bayerisch Gmain.

Red and white barrier tapes adorn the café belonging to the bakery and separate the seating from the sales area - currently closed.

Frustration: Bakers want to "set an example" in the corona lockdown

The business is also suffering significantly because customers hardly dared to go into the store during the Corona * lockdown.

In addition, hotels and restaurants have collapsed as customers.

The pastry chefs also post their latest creation on the Internet: “#frustfinger Give them away - eat them - bring them to your hosts when you order something to eat - show them - just take it with humor!

This is the only way to endure this time, ”write the Neumeiers on

the bakery's

.

The campaign is well received: 99 users have already clicked "Like".

(As of November 4, 10:33 a.m.)

Coronavirus in Bavaria: Frustration donuts can be bought all through November

The

should be available

to buy

throughout November

.

However, they do not reveal how many items have already been sold over the counter by the brothers.

Just this much: "Our customers understand and support us."

Stinky finger donuts also hit Facebook

Big discounts, empty shops: on the first “lockdown days” in Munich, a hangover mood wafts through the shopping streets of the state capital.

Despite many offers for sale.

Corona is also causing trouble at the Bavarian-Austrian border.

Whoever needs which evidence to get across the border triggers a lack of understanding for some

dpa / lby / kof)