While helping to translate a guide to the German legal market each year, I learn a lot of interesting trivia about law firms and their clients. One intriguing client that popped up today was the Schutzverband Dresdner Stollen. Yes, that’s the Association for Protecting Those Christmas Bread Thingies with the Powdered Sugar on the Outside.
Why do they need to be protected? Because, like champagne and parmesan cheese, they are purebred foods with a long history in one blessed region, forever threatened with bastardization by unscrupulous gentlemen of the road and discount grocery chains.
On their website you can see the splendid golden seal that proclaims each Stollen a true child of Dresden. Don’t buy counterfeit Stollen, my friends. If you can’t afford to have them air mailed direct from Dresden, just make yourself a cup of coffee and look at a photo of one.
Definitely won’t be buying that, but I might give it a whirl and try it myself.
Oof! Poor sods who buy the overly colorful imposer. Farbstoffe! Furchtbar!