munchen or bust

i'm going to bavaria this weekend (just for saturday and sunday - nothing too special and fancy) so i thought i'd share with you the only bavarian phrase i know apart from random words like 'servus' (which i thought was goodbye, but apparently is also hello and maye thankyou, it's the bavarian aloha). now apparently bavarian is only a spoken language (whatever the hell that means) so i have to write it in proper german.

here goes:

ist meer wurst (pronounced - ismeer vursht)

apparently it means 'it's all sausage', which is easy enough to understand if you know a little german, but as to where this saying came from it's beyond me. it's meant to be similar to english's 'whatever' or 'who cares', but personally i find it giggle inducing. i can just imagine someone going to work on a monday morning, meeting a colleague and saying, 'hallo fritz, how was your weekend?' 'you know what wolfgang, it was all fucken sausage mate.'