Mine/Thine

What can I say... this kind of thing wouldn't fly back in the old country... but I am currently in Switzerland, where people still juxtapose words like "Lebensraum" and "Heimat" quite innocuously - in the Migros supermarket.

Back in Germany, the store would be considered to have gotten off lightly if it was only subjected to a boycott and occasional firebombing. I guess I'm not in Kansas anymore. Incidentally, these plastic bars are known in German variously as

• Transportbandwarentrennleiste
• Kundenseperator
• Warenabtrennhölzchen (according to Max Goldt)
• NäKuBi (short for "nächster Kunde, bitte" - "next customer please")
• Miendientje ("mine-thine-let", in East Frisia)