Overview
- Kassel Marketing has barred vendors from labeling rum‑spiked hot chocolate as 'Lumumba' and says all stalls have already complied.
- Vendors in Kassel who ignore the rule can be excluded after two warnings, according to HNA reporting cited by inFranken.
- Bremerhaven’s organizers have recommended avoiding the term but emphasize they are not dictating product names, said managing director Michael Gerber.
- Frankfurt advised vendors last year to stop using the name, and a city spokeswoman says no stands are offering it under that label this season.
- Critics call the label racially insensitive because it invokes Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, who was overthrown in 1960 and later killed.