>I don’t really care for the Christmas Market in Mainz. Tends to be too full of cheap mulled wine stands, festive candle purveyors, knick-knack sellers and sausage-on-a-stick merchants for my liking. But there is one very good reason for making the pilgrimage and that’s the Kartoffelpuffer (potato pancake) outfit.

It’s a pretty simple recipe – grated potatoes, grated onion, egg, a bit flour to bind it all together, mix it up and fry until golden brown. Serve with a dollop of apple puree and charge €3 for 3.

No. Not a misprint.

€3 for 3.

There are about €200 worth in the picture and they’ll sell them in about 15 minutes.
Talk about a license to print money…

These folks are new.

The people who used to run it (for 20 years or so) got nicknamed “The Goldies”

Started of with regular jewellery and – as time went by and they become more affluent – thicker and clunkier gold chains/earrings/rings/bracelets appeared until they were weighed down to the extent that their movements were as ponderous as those of deep sea divers.

Guess at one stage they became immobilised and had to give up the game….

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