a week and only get 15, at some point, you won t be able to fry schnitzel. now, the munich pub has come up with a novel way to make sure it has enough oil to cook tasty lunch and dinners. for the foreseeable future, it s offering people the chance to exchange one litre of oil for one litre of beer. 0ne customer bought a truckload of sunflower oil during a humanitarian aid trip to ukraine and was delighted to be able to swap them for a few cold beers. translation: i bought 80 litres i of sunflower oil and in return, l i got 80 litres of beer, or eight crates. i mixed it all a bit a bit of wheat beer, a bit of light beer, a bit of shandy. i think it s cool because we get cheap beer and giesinger brewery is also helped because there s an oil shortage in germany.
translation: getting oil is very difficult. - you can only get small quantities in the shops. if you need 30 litres a week and only get 15, at some point you won t be able to fry schnitzel. now the munich pub has come up with a novel way to make sure it has enough oil to cook tasty lunches and dinners. for the foreseeable future, it s offering people the chance to exchange one litre of oil for one litre of beer. 0ne customer bought a truckload of sunflower oil during a humanitarian aid trip to ukraine and was delighted to be able to swap them for a few cold beers. translation: i bought 80 litres of sunflower oil and in return - i got 80 litres of beer, or eight crates. i mixed it alla bit, a bit of wheat beer, a bit of light beer, a bit of shandy. a i think it s cool because we get cheap beer and the brewery is also helped because there s an oil
the uncertain economic future. nitin srivastava, bbc news, colombo. the russian invasion of ukraine has caused severe cooking oil shortages, particularly in europe which gets 80% of its oilfrom ukraine and russia. now a brewery in germany has come up with a cunning plan to make sure customers can still order the fried schnitzel they love. wendy urquhart reports. danke schon. who would have thought that the best thing to take to the pub in germany would be a bottle of cooking oil? the war in ukraine has caused a severe lack of rapeseed and sunflower oil. supermarket shelves are empty, and several shops in munich alone have slapped a limit on the number of bottles people can buy. translation: getting oil is very difficult. - you can only get small quantities in the shops. if you need 30 litres
in port au prince, fuels greater instability. and beer for sunflower oil the munich pub finding an unusual way to beat a frying oil crunch. hello and welcome to bbc news. a summer heatwave that has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest europe shows no signs of abating on sunday. firefighters in france, portugal, spain and greece are battling forest blazes. and new temperature records look to be on the way. the heat is thought to have claimed many lives , possibly hundreds. our correspondent, bethany bell, reports from malaga. wildfires are raging in spain
able to fry schnitzel. now the munich pub has come up with a novel way to make sure it has enough oil to cook tasty lunches and dinners. for the foreseeable future, it s offering people the chance to exchange one litre of oil for one litre of beer. 0ne customer bought a truckload of sunflower oil during a humanitarian aid trip to ukraine and was delighted to be able to swap them for a few cold beers. translation: i bought 80 litres of sunflower oil and in return - i got 80 litres of beer, or eight crates. i mixed it alla bit, a bit of wheat beer, a bit of light beer, a bit of shandy. i think it s cool because we get cheap beer and the brewery is also helped because there s an oil shortage in germany. a litre of beer costs around 7 euros in a german bar and a bottle of sunflower oil is just 4.5 euros,