MVG giving out free pretzels this morning

I was on the 17 tram this morning between Isartor and Sendlingertor and twice, in this short distance, MVG employees came on with huge baskets offering everyone a free pretzel. They had written on the bag:

"Tram-Ausfall durch Schnee - Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld!"

They were quite tasty. In fact a news photographer was taking photos of the generosity.



This relates to the earlier TT topic: Heavy snow causes MVV to shut down

Yummy! Thanks for the information brokenm. I think that I´m going to take the tram rather than the tube today.

Surely the idea is to get everyone to take all that superfluous salt and spread it on the ground to do their bit for snow clearance.

LOL - Of all days, Mr DDBug drove today.

Its just a pretzel, people. Don't get too carried away.

Actually SiM, they offered everyone TWO pretzels.

Oh well, that a different story altogether...

I think it's really sweet that they gave people pretzels.
Warms the cockles of my heart, it does.
Almost restores my faith in human nature, in fact.

yeah, but these rock-solid fucking pretzels around here suck...

Where are you buying your Brezens from? If they're solid they're old!

Any beer hall or garden in town...and I would never buy one, drunken friends do...and always regret it. HBhaus's, for example, are always rock solid.

Bullshit!

And I wonder who tipped him off.

A news article about how generous the MVG are, for the price of a basket of preztels? Sounds like a cheap publicity stunt to me.

Cheap or not, the point is they did not have to do it. The snow wasn't their fault and I believe they did a great job with the extra buses and the clearing of the snow.

Just a hint -at HBhaus order your prezels from the menu that way they are cheaper and fresh. Only if you order from the girl walking around are they incredibly hard.

One way to avoid a hard Brezn is to follow the smell of freshly baked ones, you just can't go wrong then!

Were they also checking tickets?

Wow! You're an easy sell

Be VERY careful, they were very likely laced with laxative or something as a highly amusing "joke" by the scum at MVV.

Bit of bloody snow disrupts a couple of days worth of trains, and they hand out pretzels as a "thanks for your patience"?

They've continually disrupted the U6 about because of the stadium for years now (which I've ranted about 100000 times) and once put an advert up "apologising" for the massive fucking nuisance they'd caused, and offereing free allianz arean tickets for garching residents. They saw it as a side splittingly funny april fools gag - I saw it as adding insult to fucking injury.

No way I'd trust them to give me untainted food.

I love Bretzels. In Munich they seem to be a little bit more solid than in other parts of the country. Having said that, Rischart do rather good Bretzels!!

If there is no Rischart nearby, try a 'Laugensemmel' instead. They taste well nice.

MVG will also pay you € 4,50 if due to them their services are more than 15 minutes late.
Hats off to good service from them, who else does that? Not Satgecoach in the UK that's for sure.