If I've ever seen nonsense it is the Serviervorschlag (serving suggestion) on food packaging. It just blows my mind! There is simply no limit how stupid it can get.
Now this entry contains a lot of pictures (quick and dirty scans) of some serving suggestions. I tried my best to compress them down for slow connection and/or limited data volume since quality does not matter much in this case.
Now let's start with some cans: Corn, peas and small carrots, fruit mix. They suggest to just throw the stuff on the table?! And I am supposed to add fresh fruit to the canned mix?
How about some sausage? Tastes good, granted. But I want some bread. First one is too little bread, second one no bread at all; just thrown on the table with some grains and a tomato.
Chopped tomatoes in a can. Put it into a small dish… and throw some tomatoes on the table as well.
Italian "Barilla" pasta. Mhmm. Love it. But that is not a serving suggestion. You don't serve two spaghetti on a fork. It might look like this while eating (minus the basil leaf which should be part of the sauce), not when serving.
Extra fine flour for pizza. That is literally a comic figure at a pizza oven! Why do they even write "Serviervorschlag" next to this?
And now my favorite. Classic wheat flour. Nothing more nothing less. You can make a lot of different kinds of bread or cake or whatever with it. What do they suggest? I imagined having children when seeing the following picture. They come home from school and loudly shout: "Mom, we're hungry!" Then they look at the table and see this:
My kids would likely grab the phone and call the nuthouse
Seriously, what in the world are the people responsible for these pictures thinking?
Any comments or opinions on this?
Edit: Example for the what I would say is the intended usage of the phrase:
Now this entry contains a lot of pictures (quick and dirty scans) of some serving suggestions. I tried my best to compress them down for slow connection and/or limited data volume since quality does not matter much in this case.
Now let's start with some cans: Corn, peas and small carrots, fruit mix. They suggest to just throw the stuff on the table?! And I am supposed to add fresh fruit to the canned mix?
How about some sausage? Tastes good, granted. But I want some bread. First one is too little bread, second one no bread at all; just thrown on the table with some grains and a tomato.
Chopped tomatoes in a can. Put it into a small dish… and throw some tomatoes on the table as well.
Italian "Barilla" pasta. Mhmm. Love it. But that is not a serving suggestion. You don't serve two spaghetti on a fork. It might look like this while eating (minus the basil leaf which should be part of the sauce), not when serving.
Extra fine flour for pizza. That is literally a comic figure at a pizza oven! Why do they even write "Serviervorschlag" next to this?
And now my favorite. Classic wheat flour. Nothing more nothing less. You can make a lot of different kinds of bread or cake or whatever with it. What do they suggest? I imagined having children when seeing the following picture. They come home from school and loudly shout: "Mom, we're hungry!" Then they look at the table and see this:
My kids would likely grab the phone and call the nuthouse
Seriously, what in the world are the people responsible for these pictures thinking?
Any comments or opinions on this?
Edit: Example for the what I would say is the intended usage of the phrase:
