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May 29, 2015
Das Horn: what every Dad wants. Perhaps.
Das Horn: what every Dad wants. Perhaps.

Obviously, the best way to thank your old man this Father’s Day is to take him out for a slap-up meal accompanied a nice bottle of wine and then crown the occasion with a rare 21-year-old whisky.

Cuban cigars would be a bonus but let’s start gradually.

Equally as obviously, the best starting point for this would be to peruse all the fantastic restaurants on 5pm Dining.

Once you have a suitable restaurant booking in hand, you may wish to give him the gift of Das Horn – a novelty drinking horn.

We were amused and appalled in equal measure by a Dad’s Day press release for Das Horn.

Apparently, ‘Das Horn is a timeless relic, a noble trophy that harks back to a cherished era when horns were the drinking vessels of choice for gatherings and feasting’.

Bavarian Vikings

Drink from Das Horn and, the tongue-in-cheek bumf tells us, ‘you become a mighty Bavarian Viking, wielding the power of an inebriated Germanic Odin to enter a sweet sausage and booze-filled Valhalla’.

Not sure you’d get very far writing about Bavarian Vikings in your history GCSEs (do they still have GCSEs?) but we appreciate the sentiment.

As added selling points, Das Horn ‘definitely possesses supernatural powers’ and is dishwater safe.

Happily, your Da will be able to sup from his new favourite drinking vessel safe in the knowledge that ‘no beasts, mythical or real, were harmed in the making of Das Horn’.

Das Horn is yours for £24.99 from Firebox.

Well, at least it’s better than a funny tie. Or not.

Maybe you should just book a good restaurant.