THE HUN AND HIS FOOD TROUBLE .

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 870, 9 March 1917, Page 8

THE HUN AND HIS FOOD TROUBLE .

Reindeer Sausage and AsphaSte Bacon. ■■■.■* JT appears that' the ' 'synthetic sans-. - age,'' to which we alluded lastweek, is not- tlie only: doubtful - comestible that Is being compelled to consume in these bitter days of a much ; tightened British blockade. A recent issue ,of the Berlin "tokal Anseiger" - chronicles tlie ease of one Thiele, who was fined £75. and sentenced to three months' imprisonment ■ for palming off : ''reindeer sausatge." for the genuine - Braimschweiger or; Brunswick Wurst. .An indignant customer testified to hav- • ing bought, the sausage and to having; on merely • "cutting" . (not eating) it, experienced '.'very ill- effects."... She : took the - sausage, back to .Thiele, who" declared these "gamey".sausages were . ■ actually preferred by some of his clients. In court the dealer acknowledged that . this particular; brand of Hun delight' came from Sweden.- • where they • were - made out of reindeer flesh, - noted for its odorous qualities. Tlie Court; however, was inexorable, and for -three months Herr Thiele will live on. prison .. fare, probably more malodorous 1 ; and less wholesome than even his own sausages.:; , ■ '■ ■ '■ • ® <» ' Q A" second ease mentioned , by the ' 'Lokal Anseiger was that of one Eeclianeck,. who, it appears, , had been driving .quite a- roaring trade- in "asplialte -bacon." Keehaneck's business special- - ty was secretly supplying provisions to those .citizens, and these are fairly - .numerous in Berlin, who -are- dissatisfied l ... with card rations. In-one; day Kechaneck had orders for £17 worth of food which he was to obtain and supply surrepti t-iously. He made an appoint-; ment.. with one of his customers—the one' who. gave the show away to the po-lice—r-a.€ a. dark and lonely place, delivered a parcel which he declared to be bacon, received ten shillings in pay- : ment thereof, and forthwith vanished. - When the- customer got his parcel safe-, lv home and opened it, he found- it to contain "pieces- of asphalte carefully wrapped, lip in paper." The fate of the over-ingenious Herr Kechaneok was to be sentenced to ten months' imprisonment. - " , » ■« . ' © ; ■ At least one good thing can be credit<ed to the Huns. They do .make it exceedingly and wholesomely sultry for the rascals- who deal in' adulterated food. A third case has a peculiar interest for- New. Zealand consumers of * milk. In this instance one Birchwald discovered that it is not a wise, thing, in Berlin, to "water'' milk! He skimmed it, added another 25 per cent-., of water, and then sold it as "full" milk ab the highest price... For tlfis bit of rascality the Berlin sinner got "three months and a fine of £50." . New "Zealand - magistrates please take note! -•