Posted on 08/23/2017 4:11:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
To some Germans Chancellor Angela Merkel is known affectionately as Mutti (mum), but others deride her as the “ice queen.” Will a revelation about how she cooks potato soup sway doubters into the Mutti camp? Merkel is often credited with paying close attention to the political mood of the German public before taking a stance on anything. During the refugee crisis of 2015 for example she is said to have been swayed by polling into opening Germany’s borders.
But it doesn’t take a political genius to figure out that one thing that’ll always go down well with Germans is potatoes. So Merkel has decided to let slip a few home truths about how she deals with tatties to whet the Teutonic appetite ahead of elections on September 24th.
In an interview with women’s magazine Bunte that was published on Wednesday, the Chancellor revealed how she prepares her potato soup.
“I always pound the potatoes myself with a potato masher, rather than using a puree machine,” she confided. “That way there are still little lumps left in the liquid at the end.”
She also revealed that she prefers to use the spuds she plants in her garden. She reckons she has a good crop this year, too.
“They’re looking good, but I haven’t started harvesting them yet,” she said.
This isn’t the first time that Merkel has strategically deployed potato soup to impress the German electorate. Before the 2009 election she revealed that potato soup was one of her favourite meals, along with roulade and red cabbage, the Hamburger Morgenpost notes.
While the German press lapped the news up - it was reported on the online platforms of several leading media outlets - Twitter users were less than impressed.
Like she needs potato soup.
Like a lot of Germans call her mutti.
Snork
Is potato soup halal? Because if it isn’t, the Islamists will slay Merkel without pity. Nothing personal, you understand.
Do you think the Muslims will be cooking up her potato soup? They would rather starve.
The destroyer of Germany can make soup, hard hitting article...
LOL, Potato soup? Da! It was on the daily menu at Kolyma, everyone ate it, they loved it so much they had it daily. Even the internees in Auschwitz loved it, for the same reason. I wonder if that is the reason Frederich the great brought the potatoes to Germany?
Didn’t Ceausescu like potato soup?
Bingo.
Who could have guessed this lumpy, potato-looking woman ate lots of potato soup?
“I always pound the potatoes myself with a potato masher, rather than using a puree machine,” she confided.
German method vs French method. I’d say she pulled the pin on a potato masher and walked out of the room when she let all of her new friends in.
98 percent of Germans and Europeans wish she’d stayed with her damned potato soup and never got into politics to sell out their countries to the Islamonazi invasion
Any other German leader would have done the same, or worse...
Potato face.
At least it’s not Hillary’s “cookies”.
Mutti..she has no children
Gotta have bacon.
Sure, a loving "Mom"...sort of like Andrea Yates.
Another lovely German mother, Magda Geobbels only murdered her own 5 children (poison, in Hitler's bunker).
How many German women and children have been murdered by the Muslim monsters Merkel forced into Germany? I bet it's a lot more than 5.
And the evil sow doesn't even have any children of her own
Aren’t you supposed to put bacon in potato soup?
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