"Bavarian-style Christmas markets"

The Daily Mash did an article recently pointing out how pointless and depressing these are.

Now, you may think that something got lost in translation, that the Germans have proper Xmas markets (they are not inherently Bavarian) and that the UK version is somehow a pale imitation and blatantly commercialised copy.

Nope.

I went to one of these in Bavaria a quarter of a century ago, and it was just some people garden sheds with fairy lights and cotton wool snow on the high street selling overpriced vaguely Xmas-themed tat. So we all had a couple of plastic beakers of over-priced Glühwein (that's like mulled wine but close to boiling point with a shot or two of vodka in it) and buggered off home again.