Smells of Europe

[varsovian]

Holzminden, Germany, has set up smelling posts to represent every nation
competing in the deathly-dull soccer world cup.
Poland - vodka
Argentina - steak
France - Chanel No. 5
England - After Eight Mints ?? Really?

[usenetposts]

Since Stiebel Eltron's group revenue slumped to an all-time low, what else
would they be doing with their time in Holzminden?

There's also a joke that if you fancy someone who comes from there, it makes
you a "Ho-Mi sexual". Better than coming from Darmstadt, that's all I can say.

[ianek70]

varsovian napisał:

> Holzminden, Germany, has set up smelling posts to represent every nation
> competing in the deathly-dull soccer world cup.
> Poland - vodka
> Argentina - steak
> France - Chanel No. 5
> England - After Eight Mints ?? Really?

I've never been to Argentina, so I've got no idea whether or not it smells of
roasting flesh.
How many football fans (or men in general) know or care what Chanel No. 5
smells like? Paris smells like food, the rest of France is probably similar but
more cow-y and less garlicky.
Poland smells of rancid rivers, sausage and smoke, except in the countryside
where it's more chickeny.
London smells like any big European city, but slightly greasier and with more
wafts of pub-odour. The rest of England presumably smells of Eccles cakes,
clotted cream and those sticks that morris dancers fight with.
German cities smell quite good - konditorei, kaffee und kuechen and updrafts of
U-Bahn air from the pavements (less ratty than the Tube and less pissy than le
Metro).