Beer for sunflower oil? Munich pub finds way to beat frying crunch
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Munich brewpub has discovered a novel solution to beat Europe’s cooking oil shortages – letting prospects pay for his or her beer with sunflower oil to make sure plentiful shares for frying schnitzels.
With Ukraine and Russia accounting for about 80% of worldwide exports of sunflower seed oil, many European international locations together with Germany have seen provides dwindle since Russia invaded its neighbour in February.
Managers on the Giesinger Brewery, a brewhouse and pub within the southern metropolis of Munich, suppose they might have the reply, providing beer lovers a litre of their favorite brew for an identical quantity of sunflower oil.
“The entire thing got here up as a result of we merely ran out of oil within the kitchen and that is why we’ve to be creative,” the pub supervisor, Erik Hoffmann, instructed Reuters TV.
Bottles of rapeseed and sunflower oil have typically been lacking from grocery store cabinets in Germany since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and plenty of retailers ration the variety of bottles per buyer.
“Getting oil could be very troublesome … should you want 30 litres per week and solely get 15 as a substitute, in some unspecified time in the future you will not be capable to fry a schnitzel any longer,” Hoffmann stated, including that prospects have swapped 400 litres thus far.
Whereas a litre of beer prices about 7 euros ($7) in German pubs, a one-litre bottle of sunflower oil retails for about 4.5 euros – making the provide tempting for a lot of prospects.
Buyer Moritz Baller purchased 80 litres of sunflower oil in Ukraine throughout a visit to ship humanitarian help, swapping his cargo for eight crates of beer for his party.
“The marketing campaign is cool,” he stated. “We will get low cost beer and sure, Giesinger Brewery can be helped.”
($1 = 0.9914 euros)
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Riham Alkousaa; Enhancing by Helen Popper)
