Bakery Creates Doughnut In Response To Officials Jumping Vaccine Queue

Story By: Georgina Jadikovska, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska, Agency: Newsflash

A bakery in the Austrian capital Vienna has created a sweet treat named the ‘Mayor Doughnut’ in response to the queue-jumping officials who got themselves vaccinated early on.

Austria, which has a population of 8 million, has so far only vaccinated just over 300,000 citizens, almost all of them elderly, but there were also some examples of queue jumpers including several mayors who claimed they only had the vaccine because it was surplus to requirements.

Wolfgang Matt, mayor of Feldkirch , a town located in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg, was accused of “passing a long line of people waiting outside” for a BioNTech shot.

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He said he merely waited in line in case there was a leftover dose once all priority candidates had been injected. “I wouldn’t throw out stale bread either, I use it to make toast,” he told a local newspaper.

However, the nurse who was on duty at the time claimed she refused to vaccinate him because there were others who were older and in genuine need of the jab.

In Lower Austria, the mayor of the town of Eberschwang and his two deputies were vaccinated in early January, and said they only did so when appointments with care home residents were cancelled at short notice.

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Meanwhile, in the town of Rankweil, mayor Katharina Woess-Krall, 44, received a first shot of the vaccine from a leftover dose. She said: “I didn’t jump the queue, I didn’t take anything from anyone.”

In Vorarlberg, the regional head of the Red Cross was admonished after authorising the vaccination of not just his employees but also their relatives, according to reports.

Now, the stories of queue-jumping public figures have been immortalised by the Viennese Felber bakery that has developed a ‘mayor doughnut’ that comes with a syringe filled with alcoholic eggnog to make people forget their troubles.

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The original desert also comes with icing and green corona-shaped sweets that look exactly like the viruses depicted in graphics.

According to its inventors, the dessert should not only taste good, but also help brighten a person’s mood.

Doris Felber, the owner of the bakery, said: “We all want to be vaccinated. We are all waiting for it, and in the meantime, we thought that a little bit of alcohol would improve the waiting time.

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“And thank God we have a few more syringes, we filled them with eggnog.”

Customers seem to like the sweet intoxicating oral vaccination as hundreds of the doughnuts are being sold on a daily basis.

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