Elfstedentocht redux.

Just as a final note on the Elfstedentocht before we're done.  (Unless, of course, we get some cold again.)  As I was looking through the Dutch news site nu.nl, I found some funny cartoons from a strip called "De Jager", many of the recent examples of which refer to the Elfstedentocht.  Because that is all anyone was thinking about for a month or so.  If you want to see other, non-Elfstedentocht related cartoons, the archive is located here.

This cartoon says: 

"Concern that business are getting too strong a grip on the Elfstedentocht."  

Unox is a food company that produces, among other things, wursts which are processed meat logs which look a lot like Polish sausages, hence the finish line which looks like a Polish sausage.  They don't taste like that though.  They taste kind of like weirdly flavored spam.  It is a very distinctive and unusual taste.

This one says

"In places, the ice is too thin for the Elfstedentocht to be run."

Kwik, Kwek, & Kwak are the Dutch version of Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Donald Duck's nephews).  I assume that this version is to avoid copyright issues.  I have no idea why they are relevant to this cartoon.

This one is labeled "Thaw."

And the one guy says to the other: 

"An Elfstedentocht swim . . . have they thought about doing that?"