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Currywurst fan Schröder (2007): "Phased" also vegetarian diet
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Thomas Koehler / photothek / imago images
In addition to cigars and tailor-made suits, Gerhard Schröder's two other passions are known: cars and currywurst.
Accordingly, he was apparently hit by the news that Volkswagen of all people has removed all meat-containing dishes - including the currywurst - from the menu in the canteen in the branded high-rise building in Wolfsburg.
As Prime Minister of the major shareholder Lower Saxony, Schröder sat on Volkswagen's control committee before his rise to the position of "car chancellor". But now the former chancellor has to be content with venting his displeasure on the social network LinkedIn: "If I were still on the supervisory board of VW, there would have been no such thing," he clarifies right at the beginning - before he possibly the Zeitgeist inserts a reassurance: "Vegetarian nutrition is good, I do it myself in phases." Schröder makes it unmistakably clear where, in his opinion, the meatless diet has to reach its limits: "Basically no currywurst? No!"
Up to this point, the former Chancellor's statement lacks arguments for his position, which he is now trying to provide: "Do the employees at VW really want that?" Asks Schröder rhetorically and then refers to the seven million curry sausages that Volkswagen makes - I made my own butchery in 2019.
Even more: »Currywurst with French fries is one of the power bars of the skilled worker in production.
It should stay that way. "
#save the currywurst
When he is in Berlin, according to Schröder, "my first route usually leads me to one of the excellent currywurst stalls." As if to avoid trouble in his hometown, he adds: “There are excellent curry sausages in Hanover too.” He doesn't want to do without that, says Schröder, “and I think: Many others don't want that in their company canteens either”. As a conclusion, the former Chancellor, who is affectionate with social media, uses a distinctive hashtag: #rettetdieCurrywurst.
With this, Schröder uses a rhetorical trick.
While at the beginning he correctly stated that “a” VW canteen banned meat from the menu, he then campaigned for the right of all VW employees to have their currywurst.
But here the former comrade of the bosses, whose party actually poster "Currywurst is SPD" during the election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012, went too far.
The press spokesman for the group works council promptly contradicts it in a comment - and refers to the almost 30 other canteens and bistros at the VW headquarters that continue to offer meat and currywurst.
And VW Brand Board Member Ralf Brandstätter also makes it clear: “The currywurst is definitely not being phased out and will be retained by all of our colleagues.
Of course, this also applies to production. "
Schröder should be the sausage.
Finally, the former Chancellor receives support from a Dax CEO in the comment column.
Telekom boss Timotheus Höttges confesses: "I love currywurst !!!!!!"
fdi / apr
