Popular German sayings with a funny, catchy, meat-related twist that leave room for imagination. Die Spitze des Fleischbergs: By replacing 'Eis' (ice) with 'Fleisch' (meat) various images are created like the mass production of meat or that there is more to see than just the beautiful/innocuous packaging at the surface. A further topic linked to the word iceberg is climate change. The same goes for Speckmantel des Schweigens which suggests that bad circumstances are tried to be hidden.