After the CSU party conference ten days ago, many statements by CSU chairman Markus Söder could have been debated more intensively.

In particular, however, opinions within the party differed on his thesis that the CSU was “not the avocado floor, but the schnitzel floor”.

It was not primarily about the question of what an "avocado floor" actually is, but rather about why the CSU should, for heaven's sake, play off avocado and schnitzel against each other.

Timo Frasch

Political correspondent in Munich.

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According to reports, one of the participants in the debate was the deputy CSU chairwoman Dorothee Bär.

Her partisanship for the avocado was attributed by the hardcore schnitzel fraction to the fact that, as a member of the Bundestag with a digital touch, she allegedly moves a lot in Berlin-Mitte, where, according to legend, there are more avocados than in Chile, for example, especially since in the Surroundings of yoga studios.

In the debate, Bär, who grew up in Lower Franconia, pointed out that her office staff did not come from Berlin but from Franconia and still liked avocados without scorning the schnitzel.

The example of Mexico shows that this is possible: Meat country through and through, the people there also like to eat guacamole, which would be unthinkable without avocado - to accompany the meat.

The schnitzel fraction is said to have asked against which fruit or which vegetable the meat could then be positioned, which in turn the avocado aficionados in the CSU answered with the exclamation: Against none, after all, the fruit and vegetable and vegetable eaters.

Apparently that was convincing.

Because a few days later, a gift box with avocados and “avocado spread” arrived at Bär’s Berlin office in the Bundestag.

Sender: none other than Markus Söder, about whom the FAZ once wrote that he was "a learning system".

As a journalist, you can now ask yourself self-critically what this kind of thing is doing in a newspaper like this, whether you can let yourself be stretched in front of the cart by whoever with such a message – Söder is sending Bär Avocados.

But the CSU really doesn't have it easy at the moment, as several of its representatives recently complained about on the occasion of the mask investigation committee - especially not getting through with light and positive topics in the media.

Of course, this kind of thing gives food for thought, and that's why we don't want to deal with the ecological balance of the avocado (or even the schnitzel) in detail here.

Not that the fruit is still like the new CSU general secretary.