Restaurants in Germany say goodbye to french fries

French fries will be absent from the menu of many restaurants in Germany, bad news for many lovers of this dish.

 The famous restaurant "Gaffel am Dom" in Cologne (Cologne), issued a decision to stop serving French fries, because of the lack of frying oil, the famous restaurant removed the fried chips from its menu.

Which is bad news for many fans of the famous German dish.

The repercussions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine were not limited to raising prices at gas stations only, but also reached the stomach.

Frying oil, in particular, is now harder to come by, which may affect many junk food.

Restaurant manager Erwin Ott said: "It's not an April Fool's Day, we just stopped laughing. Our oil suppliers can no longer adequately meet our needs, which is why we have decided to take this step."

According to the Association of Hotels and Restaurants in North Rhine-Westphalia DEHOGA, the needs of this restaurant in Cologne are not an isolated case, as the association's spokesman, Thorsten Helfig, said in a statement to the German news agency (dpa): "We have a tense situation in which getting On certain types of frying oil, such as sunflower oil, it is more difficult than usual."

Other restaurants and mobile stores in major cities such as Frankfurt and Hamburg have taken a similar step.

Curry sausages are no longer served there with french fries, but only with salad!

Rapeseed oil is rare, and its prices have gone up, too.

Therefore, a number of restaurant owners had to remove French fries from the menu, while others chose to raise their price.

It is noteworthy that Ukraine is one of the largest exporters of sunflower oil in the world, but the war there has disrupted the flow of a number of goods, the most important of which is sunflower oil, which is indispensable in cooking snacks.

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