German Oktoberfest

The Oktoberfest party was pretty much a small scale version of what I recall Oktoberfest to be like in Munich. They had set up tables picnic like outside. Blue checkered table cloths over everything. 30 or so people sitting in rows holding steins. The host and hostess were in lederhosen.
I guess the major disconnect is that everyone was drinking Foster’s instead of something Bavarian. But is apparently the only decent beer available in quantity here in Delhi.

One funny story. There were a number of tins of snuff, snorting tobacco, being passed around the party. I had never really seen snuff before and so was looking at the tin in puzzlement. On the back is a warning that simple said: “Causes Cancer” in German and in English. I found this disarmingly direct--in the it US would read something like: “Warning: Studies have suggested that extended use of this product might cause cancer in certain individuals.” No such waffling from the Germans, they call these things as they see 'em.