Ich war heute in der Apotheke und der Apotheker hat mir zusammen mit meinen Medikamenten ein Päckchen Bruschetta-Gewürz gegeben. Ich habe viele Fragen… so viele Fragen. 1. Warum? Tomaten und Brot kann ich in der Apotheke nicht kaufen. 2. Was ist, wenn ich Bruschetta nicht mag? Kann ich dann andere Gewürze bekommen? 3. Soll ich während der Einnahme dieser Medikamente ausschließlich Bruschetta essen?
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Von RedRidingBear
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It’s a gift. A marketing gag. Something like a ballpoint pen or a little pack of gummy bears. There is no “why” otherwise and trying to exchange it would be silly at best and rude at worst.
Of course you don’t eat it with your meds, but that was probably a rhetorical question anyways. At least I hope so.
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Pharmacies in Germany have the habit of giving you all kinds of small present like tissues or cough drops. Though I must admit… TOMATENWÜRZMISCHUNG????
WTF!
Maybe that’s the reason it’s Tomatenwürzmischung, the WTF factor is very high.
Yeah, that’s weird.
Sometimes you’ll get some freebies at the pharmacy like tissues or candy, but seasoning is a new one for me.
Don’t you know the Marry Poppins Song:“ A spoon full of tomato seasoning makes the medicine go down.“
So they taste better duh
My local pharmacy always gives me seasoning for fried potatoes. The packet looks the same as yours.
Plus it is actually very good Bratkartoffelwürzmischung.
I have a pharmacy gift that has a special place in my heart. I’m from the US, my husband is from Pakistan and we met while living in Germany. We decided to move to the US when we got engaged and he needed a bunch of vaccines for his visa.
We were running all over town trying to find one at pharmacies because the Gesundheitsamt didn’t have it, but told us they would administer it if we brought it before closing. We finally got it, ran back as fast as we could, and the office put the vaccine in a fridge while we waited. When it was our turn, a woman came out laughing and asked us if the rabbit is also ours. And we were like ….rabbit? She produced from the bag a very cute porcelain rabbit that the pharmacy had put in the bag as an Easter promotion. She asked us if we didn’t want them to also refrigerate the rabbit lol.
We still have it 10 years later and it’s our most treasured Easter decoration.
Thats a funny one. usually its tissues, band aids, samples of lotion, magnesium, stuff like that.
My local pharmacy was giving out an herbal tea mix one time. Really nice herbal tea, at that!
Your question is already answered but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share the word (which I learned recently): a gift given to the customer by the merchant alongside their purchase can be called a [lagniappe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe)
In my experience at German pharmacies I usually get a packet of tissues if anything. Never got a spice mix.