Spinning in her grave

“I don’t know how you can buy a German dishwasher after what they did to London in WWII?”
So would say my English friend who survived the bombing of London.
“V-2 rockets. Incendiaries. They reduced London to rubble. They killed thousands!”
Actually this is an extrapolation of what really happened in the early ‘80s when I showed up at her house in our Volkswagen Rabbit.
She slammed down her garage-door, and almost wouldn’t let us into her house.
Our dishwasher is Bosch, the same people that made the fuel-injection and spark-plugs for our Rabbits.
At least it’s not Mitsubishi — weren’t they the manufacturers of the Japanese Zero?
I can still that oily black pillar of smoke towering above the battleship Arizona.
The fuel-injection was rudimentary — not as elaborate as what you find now; individually-timed pulses of fuel into the intake tracts.
It was like the fuel-injection in the 1957 Chevrolet and Corvettes.
A constant spray of gasoline into the intake-tract of each individual cylinder; the volume of which was metered by a paddle-sensor to measure air-flow.
Now fuel-injection is no longer constant.
It’s timed pulses of fuel, some even directly into the combustion-chamber.
So-called Direct-Injection; it’s more precise, and therefore less polluting.
We decided on Bosch after reading Consumer-Reports dishwasher reviews.
Supposedly Bosch was better engineered, and more durable.
Beyond that were -a) the fact a Bosch didn’t have a garbage-disposal, which we don’t need, and -b) intake water is quickly heated off-to-the-side, not by a large heating-ring coil in the base of the tub.
Well, okay, but our Maytag lasted almost 18 years.
It was replaced by a Kenmore, which didn’t last long, and committed an unpardonable sin.
The rack was sheathed in rubberized plastic, and its end-caps wore off, allowing the rack-ends to rust.
Rust was being deposited on our dishes.
Our Kenmore got early retirement, and my wife started washing the dishes herself.
I started complaining we needed a new dishwasher, one with nylon-covered racks, which most are nowadays.
To replace the racks in our Kenmore would cost almost as much as a new dishwasher.
And again the rack-ends might deteriorate.
So Bosch it is.
My friend is probably spinning in her grave.