A Political Plea Cookout!

So heres a brief political break down of what is happening in Old Town Square in these pictures. The Czechs have a two step election system. The current party in power is a conservative, rightest party, who is throwing the party (haha). No one particularly likes them, and everyone thinks that there leader Mr. Klaus is a racist idiot. (He threatened the social democrats that he was going to show them a kristallnacht of their own and he used a famous hitler line against them, just to keep it straight he didn't say this about the jews, but still a bit scary) Anyhows, in the first wave of elections they were bombed, surprise! So in order to gain a few more votes before the second set of elections the conservative party decided to throw this crazy party in old town square, there was tons of bands and professional dancers and speeches from the candidates and the president himself. Normally I really wouldn't care about Czech politics, we have our own problems, buuuuuut I got an excellent free dinner out of it!

It was an all you could eat and drink extravaganza. Firstly lets deal with this picture above. They had an army of grill masters prepping the kielbasa troops. The kielbasa was amazing, it was slightly smoked, so it had a great garlicy, highly seasoned flavor, but it was still really juicy since it was not completely smoke cured. They were also cooked over charcoals so there was char blackened goodness all over them. Once I got my kielbasa, I moved on over to the condiment table. I decided on traditional eastern European preparation, I grabbed a big slice of a rye/sourdough mix spread on lots of white horseradish and mustard and then sandwiched the kielbasa in between, it was perfect. Now to get a drink. There were two carts of all you can drink Gambrinus. I felt bad for the poor girl who was pouring beer in the picture below, it looked like she had been pouring a constant stream of beer the whole night. Gambrinus is the third of the three great beers of Prague. It is the least expensive of the three as well. Gambrinus is a very creamy beer that goes great with kielbasa, but then again what beer wouldn't. Once I had my beer it was time for the second course, Goulash. (it was a free diner, I was going to stuff myself) Even though this was mass made Czech tax money goulash it was some of the best I have had yet. The broth was incredible, it was so spicy, with lots of pepper and other spices that make a soup warm and wonderful. There were also huge chunks of deliciously fatty beef. It was apparent that they had been stewing all day as they melted in my mouth. The goulash was literally steeped in the mouthwatering fat of these beef chunks. I could not have asked for a better free dinner from the quickly slipping out of power political party. Maybe the new party will throw a delicious Old Town Square party too! If only US politics were this gastronomically generous the US would be a much better place.