QUOTE A DAY: THE SHARPEST TASTE-BUDS IN THE WORLD

I parked at the intersection of Kurfurstendamm and Joachimsthaler Strasse, Known as 'Grunfeld Corner' because of the department store of the same name which occupies it. 

When Grunfeld, a Jew, still owned his store, they used to serve free lemonade at the Fountain in the basement. But since the State dispossessed him, as it has with all the Jews who owned big stores, like Wertheim, Hermann Teitz and Israel, the days of free lemonade have gone.

If that weren't bad enough, the lemonade you now pay for and once got free doesn't taste half as good, and you don't have to have the sharpest taste-buds in the world to realize that they're cutting down on the sugar. 

Just like they're cheating on everything else.

From the Bernie Gunther novel March Violets set in Berlin 1936 by Philip Kerr