Did the restaurant “Gerstenkorn” in Hanover actually replace the dish “Gypsy Schnitzel” with “Non-Sedentary Balkan Migration Schnitzel”?
An alleged excerpt from the restaurant's menu is currently making the rounds online. The dish “Zigeuner-Schnitzel” was demonstratively replaced by “Non-sedentary Balkan migration schnitzel”.
We received inquiries about the authenticity. Is this actually how the court is run?
This is how the picture is circulating on Facebook:

The fact check
The background to the action was a dispute with the city, which had responded corresponding demand "Gypsy", which has a discriminatory connotation - for reasons of respect we link here to the self-image of those affected - or other named foods such as "-Schnitzel" or "-Sauce" be deleted from public usage.
“Sinti” refers to the members of the minority who have lived in Central Europe since the late Middle Ages, and “Roma” refers to those of Eastern or South-Eastern European origin. “
the fact that the main ingredient of the same dishes , the paprika fruit, also comes from the Balkan region for decades to justify the term, which was coined by the “Bavarian Gypsy Law of 1926” and later used by the Nazi regime.
At that time, “Gypsies,” like Jews, were ostracized due to absurd racial theories, thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps and murdered. ( 1)
The “defense” of the manufacturer of the sauce of the same name can get stuck in your throat: “Rounded off with onions and tomato peppers, it tastes “hearty hot and cold with gypsy skewers ,” ... said the Kühne company in a statement to the “tagesspiegel.” “
The Central Council of Sinti and Roma commented to the magazine “Spiegel Online” as follows:
“It is a question of treating each other with respect, using a group's own name and not imposing a foreign term on them. During National Socialism, these people were persecuted as “gypsies,” and to this day right-wing extremists and right-wing populists refer to them as “gypsies.”
Against this background, Hanover is now the first municipality to react accordingly , an example that others will hopefully follow. The embarrassing and provocative implementation, like taste in general, can be debated - the restaurant owners are showing that they obviously didn't understand - or wanted to understand - anything in the debate about political correctness and its effects on public language use:
With poorly concealed malice, they make it more than clear that they were actually very reluctant to give up “right to discriminate”
Competitors, who responded to the appeal with the appropriate respect, show that there is another way.
“Instead, they call the dishes Puzsta schnitzel or Hungarian-style schnitzel, spicy sauce or paprika sauce and paprika goulash,”
says the “Bremen Sprachlog” in a detailed article on the subject of language and political correctness.
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