"Hans Riegel, Marketer of Gummi Bears, Dies at 90." Eddy, Melissa. N.Y. Times. October 15, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/business/hans-riegel-marketer-of-gummi-bears-dies-at-90.html
"Haribo: the confessions of a confectionery addict." Olterman, Philip. The Guardian. October 16, 2013. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/oct/16/haribo-confectionery-founder-hans-riegel-died-90
RIP Hans Riegel!
The Guardian's piece has this: "Riegel's one-off gum for the 2006 carnival season, the "arse with ears", may remain a collector's item only."
In fact it makes more sense than at first glance: idiomatically Arsch mit Ohren means a butthead, an idiot. Trophies have even been made of asses with ears, I suppose for people who are or who have done something monumentally, perhaps obscenely, stupid. UAlbany might consider changing Minerva to the Arsch mit Ohren - it would be fundamentally more honest.
Den Arsch mit Ohren:
schmackhafter als Möhren
herabgesandt Ihre Zuleitungsrohren
in den Mund mit Gießtiegel
fremde Erfindung von Hans Riegel
Er verdient eine Medaillenspiegel
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