Recently there has been a deadly outbreak of E. Coli in Europe, specifically in Germany. The Germans promptly claimed it had come from Spain. Well, it turns out that tests have shown it hadn’t come from Spain, and Spain is all mad just because they’ve lost lots of money in produce sales. But it was apparent to me from the start why the Germans tried to blame it on Spain. Isn’t it clear to everyone? Spain knocked Germany out of the World Cup last year! Of course they’d want to get revenge somehow! And now they have their revenge!
Now we just need to get rid of this damn E. Coli!
But it’s ironic to me that they’d blame a produce-oriented illness on Spain, rather than a seafood-borne pathogen. I mean, because of Paul the Octopus! Paul is the only reason Germany lost to Spain in the first place, so wouldn’t it have made more sense for them to have found a seafood-related illness to blame on Spain? I guess they had to take the first one that came up, though. Maybe later on they’ll find that seafood one.
But guess what? The joke’s on Germany anyway, as Germany is mostly responsible for the Eurozone bailout money, and the more they hurt the Spanish economy, the more they’ll have to spend to bail them out. But you can’t buy pride, and you can’t put a price on revenge. But revenge is best served cold, which is why it was appropriate to blame it on raw veggies, and it’s also why it may be coming from oysters on the half-shell next time! (Or even more appropriately: octopus sushi!)
