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Fun Trivia: When Volkswagen announced that their canteen would offer vegetarian and vegan alternatives, Germany's ex chancellor Schröder made the headlines with
by pflenker 4y ago
Fun Trivia:
When Volkswagen announced that their canteen would offer vegetarian and vegan alternatives, Germany's ex chancellor Schröder made the headlines with deriding this decision and calling the sausage the "Kraftriegel der Arbeiter" (worker's power bar).
- rqtwteye 4y agoSchröder makes every possible effort to make himself look stupid. He probably should have some currywurst with his buddy Putin.
- Bewelge 4y agoHad to check this and it turns out that what you're saying is not quite correct: The canteen stopped serving meat altogether which meant that the famous "VW-Currywurst" wouldn't be available anymore. That's what Schröder complained about, not the availability of vegan alternatives. He actually praised those in the same sentence.
- johannes1234321 4y agoTo be precise: One of three or four canteens on the main site was affected. So there still was alternative.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 4y agoAssuming 90:10 meat eaters to vegetarians, and a reduction of 25% of the capacity, 15% of workers who are meat eaters will have to eat at the vegetarian canteen.
- googlryas 4y agoYes, but meat eaters may choose to eat a vegetarian meal on any given day. 15% seems like a plausible figure - meat eaters choosing 1 day a week to eat a vegetarian meal.
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- pflenker 4y agoIt would still have been available in another canteen right next door though. Also, the canteen which did. the change was not exactly catering to the blue-collar workers he was referencing, IIRC it was an office building.