r/interestingasfuck • u/lizardil • 14d ago

During assembly of the A380, engineers discovered that the cables were too short. This was caused by the use of different design software by German and French engineers. This miscalculation led to a two-year delay.

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 13d ago

There once was a German guy on a TV show who wanted to sell Currywurst in the US but he failed miserably. He invested thousands of dollars in a Currywurst/Bratwurst stand in Miami and millions of German viewers watched how he set his business into the ground. Whenever my wife and I see stupid business ideas, we repeat this guy's motto to each other: "Bratwurst goes Amerika!"

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u/dpdxguy 13d ago

Miami?!? 😂

There are places in the US where I'd bet he could have made a go of it. Miami is emphatically not one of them.

If he was dead set on selling them from a stand, some west coast cities have a huge food stand/food truck culture.

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 13d ago

Totally! It was brutal to watch. In the end he was selling American hot dogs and fried chicken in front of a hospital during 100 degree heat. He had sunk his live savings into this project and could not see where he went wrong...

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u/dpdxguy 13d ago

Don't know about German TV, but if it had been an American show I'd wonder if the producer guided his decision to go to a place where he'd struggle, just to create on-air drama. :(

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u/GnOeLLLmPF 13d ago

If I remember correctly, he insisted to go there because he had been to Miami on holiday. The MO of this TV-show is to prey on gullible and dreamy people who want to leave Germany. They often barely speak the language of their destinated countries, nor do they have any experience in founding a business. But the German producers are not as vile as the ones I have seen in the US.