Things I Do Not Understand

So let's look at a very German restaurant, well known across the world - Hofbrauhaus.  It is full of Bavarians being Bavarian, wearing lederhosen, drinking beer, and singing songs.  Let's look at a nearby store.  It is also quite German as far as I can tell.  It is a supermarket known as LIDL.  At the first location one can purchase a full liter of beer for about 7€, which is often repeated every hour.  At the latter, one can purchase a full liter of ice cream for about 1.49€.  Now to me it seems obvious where to spend one's money.  Getting almost 5 liters of ice cream for the price of 1 liter of beer sounds like quite a deal.  That's why the Hofbrauhaus is going out of business and Germans have stopped drinking beer entirely....


Wait... but they have't?  Actually Hofbrauhaus is still doing great business and Germans are still drinking lots of beer.  How can that be, given the circumstances?  Well I haven't given you the whole picture.  It turns out that the supermarket, LIDL, that sells the ice cream that should put Hofbrauhaus out of business is only open until 8:00pm like every store in Germany.  As a restaurant, the Hofbrauhaus stays open until about midnight, leaving Germans with no choice but to drink beer during those sad hours.


This my friends is the root cause for Germany being known for beer, I think.