If you don’t have any plans next week and you’re going to be in Shanghai, perhaps you’d be interested in attending an Oktoberfest celebration. I received the advertisement below from a local restaurant, and I’m excited to attend the celebration, but my one concern is that I’ve lived in Germany and attended Oktoberfest many times before, and I’m not sure I recognize any of the traditional food on the menu.
I guess I am familiar with ‘broccoli’ and sausage, but I can’t say I’ve tried:
-limbaugh bowel
-cheese bowel
-fried figure German spicy dish bowel
-roast pig neck meat with parsley juice
-acid purple cabbage
If you’re excited to try all of these dishes, and you consider yourself a bit of a party animal, make sure and choose the buffet because ‘Saint Villa club recommend the ticket of buffet package makes all party animals enjoy the luxurious pleasure!’
The Good Greatsby 
Kathryn McCullough
October 16, 2011
How funny! When we were in Vietnam, we lived adjacent to and nearly above a German brewery, so I can appreciate just how special this event will be. Don’t dare miss it!
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
I wonder if the Vietnamese do authentic German as well as the Chinese.
Ape No. 1
October 16, 2011
Haha. How exactly do you think that a girl dresses up like Bavaria or is she perhaps covered in Bavarian dressing?
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
I’m hoping for a combination of both.
k8edid
October 16, 2011
Limbaugh bowel? I guess I’d have fried figure, too. Very funny. I can’t wait to join hands with Paulaner beer, myself.
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
Paulaner beer truly is the friendliest of beers and the one I’d most feel comfortable joining hands with.
k8edid
October 16, 2011
I imagine so….enough of that beer and I might even try the Dallas RouChang.
ajg
October 16, 2011
I haven’t had acid purple since the 60s! They must have found ol’ Cloud Flower’s secret stash!
She's a Maineiac
October 16, 2011
Now why, with that delectable list of foods, do I find broccoli to be the most frightening? As Newman once said, it’s a “vile weed”.
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
Have you tried eating broccoli after soaking it in oil, butter, or cheese? If you still don’t like it, try it without the broccoli and just eat the oil, butter, or cheese.
lifeintheboomerlane
October 16, 2011
Limbaugh Bowel took me to a place I didn’t want to go and could only eradicated with heavy meds..
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
I wouldn’t try the Limbaugh Bowel, but I do want to take a look at it and see if it bears any resemblance to Rush.
bearmancartoons
October 17, 2011
i bet there are some who would like the job of disboweling him.
gojulesgo
October 16, 2011
Save me some of that neck meat!! I might be late, because I too am coming Bavaria-dressed.
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
I’ll tell them to hold you some neck but I worry it will be the first to go.
limr
October 16, 2011
I think I’l stick to the Oktoberfest put on by my town’s German-American club. They know how to get people in: they order buffet food from a local Italian restaurant! (At least they serve Spaten.)
Snoring Dog Studio
October 16, 2011
We should send Anthony Bourdain there because he’ll eat anything. But here’s one party animal that would be desperately in need of a colon cleanse if I attended that beerfest. And limburger is offensive enough without combining it with bowel, by the way.
madtante
October 16, 2011
The foods do sound delicious. What’s funny, is I know exactly what they mean by the translation (growing up with German immigrants as close family friends — “Yay! It’s SLAUGHTER Day!”). If you tell me the German name, I don’t know what it means but their definitions are surprisingly illuminating!
The Good Greatsby
October 16, 2011
I actually speak German and Chinese but I still can’t quite make sense of it.
randomlychad
October 16, 2011
Almost that entire list of, uh, delicacies is entirely too tripe for me.
gerknoop
October 16, 2011
I am reading this one to my 100% German husband….I KNOW this one will win him over to the Greatsby side! He is almost there already with your last Chinglish post about the eyelash limit! LOLOLOL
The Good Greatsby
October 17, 2011
If I’d known a German emphasis was all it took to win him over, I would have written some posts in German, although I can’t think of a single German friend who thinks I’m funny.
Laura
October 16, 2011
I’ll occasionally come across limbaugh bowel on the radio or TV, but I can only handle about a minute of it before I turn it off.
Spectra
October 17, 2011
I thik I’ll just have my parsley juice, stright-up. What could be more German? Maybe if I drop a shot of it in a Pauliner Girl…that’s a Parsley Maker, right?
sidmilb
October 17, 2011
Well Scheiß. There went MY weekend. Danke.
educlaytion
October 17, 2011
I’m pretty sure I had some acid purple cabbage in college.
The Good Greatsby
October 17, 2011
That seems to be the most common age for people to start experimenting with cabbage.
Thomas Stazyk
October 17, 2011
Roast pig neck meat served by a Bavaria dressed girl might cause some cultural cognitive dissonance?
Todd Pack
October 17, 2011
Someday, you’ll be back in the West and think, It just doesn’t seem like Octoberfest because there aren’t any Bavaria dressed girls serving fried figure German spicy dish bowel.
The Good Greatsby
October 17, 2011
But that’s kind of what I expected Oktoberfest to be like back when I was still in the west and had never attended.
Brown Road Chronicles
October 17, 2011
If you drink enough Paulaner beer, any of that stuff starts sounding pretty good.
Jay
October 17, 2011
I want to learn that too!
John Erickson
October 17, 2011
Not much for cabbage, but I’ll take a whack at ANYTHING that has the word “acid” in the description! 😯
The Good Greatsby
October 17, 2011
I wondered if the word ‘acid’ might actually attract more orders instead of repelling people.
Binky
October 17, 2011
I believe they’re trying to kill off all the foreigners with acid and bowels. Don’t go!
frigginloon
October 17, 2011
Damn, Googled the cheese bowel sausage recipe but NOTHING!!!!!
Lenore Diane
October 17, 2011
Ew. One will need many beers to handle the food on the menu.
pegoleg
October 17, 2011
Wasn’t Dallas RouChang a receiver with the Bears in the 80s? Great hands.
pattisj
October 27, 2011
I mistook the German spicy dish to mean the Bavaria dressed girls.
Dana
November 1, 2011
The cheese bowel dish is the main reason why I became an (almost) vegan. My GI tract will never be the same…