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Brittney Gilbert over at Eye On Blogs stumbled across this gem: delicious chicken snacks named "Obama Fingers," made in Deutschland and featuring the Golden Gate Bridge on the package.
Huh, is right?
The company that produces said fried fingers, Sprehe, claims that they were "unaware of the racial overtones, which are instantly apparent to Americans." And how.
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Please to be honoring American President and real-life Chocolate Face Herr Obama
The world's most liberal nation gets an automatic pass on these matters.
oh, wait. Deutsch not Dutch
nevermind.
I'm having trouble believing that's not an internet hoax perpetrated with pretty bad photoshop work.
I think you're right. The lower right hand corner of the "box" has a logo for something called shabooty.com...
http://www.shabooty.com/
I'm guessing it's not safe for work but mebbe it is...
well if you go to the shabooty website, it has a link to an online german publication. Though to me that lends some credibility to it, I still can't fathom it being a real product.
Then again, years ago gerber baby food made a gross mistake on their marketing of baby foods in africa. because most people can't read what's in the can is simply pictured on the can or jar. Well, gerber's had a picture of a baby on it. Nobody would buy it.
*shrugs* go figure
it's real folks...
Like douche?
If you google the Sprehe Feinkost brand in the lower left corner you find a whole world of strange fried chicken products;
http://www.sprehe.de/?home=n&seite=produkte&subseite=sortiment.php?kat0=1
Ah, give 'em a break. Every country has its own set of unofficial rules on what's OK or not OK to say. It'd be hard to understand if you're not raised in it.
I'm sure there are seemingly innocuous ways of talking about Nazis or sausage making or whatever that get German's panties all in a bunch, too.
You know who loves fried chicken? Everybody.
whats curry dip?
Dip that tastes of curry.
Speaking from the vantage point of a German, Germans are not sensitive about racial issues because they largely aren't confronted with them. This makes them racist, but it is far less intentional on their part than when someone here acts racist. I'm not talking about far right Germans though -- I'm talking about the average German, which is typically more left than the average American.
No joke -- it is in Germany's largest magazine: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-40537.html#backToArticle=612684
I am 100% sure Der Spiegel fact checks.
Last time I was in Germany, I bought a popsicle called "Mr. Long." It had a picture of Michael Jordan on the wrapper.
billywags -- you are correct. For example, if you posses any sort of Nazi material, books, whatever, you go to jail.
Well mistaken racism aside I'm just trying to figure out why a picture of the Golden Gate bridge is on the box? What does it have to do with Obama or chicken strips?
In the past couple of years, German flight agencies have been offering cheap packages to San Francisco--making it seem like the best part of America--which, it is. Anyways, it wouldn't be surprising to me that by now, most Germans think the Golden Gate is more a symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty.
Phew. I am so proud we made it this far in the comment stream without one German/Jew joke. Bravo.
I seriously doubt they intended to be even remotely offensive with this. Hell, it took me a minute or so to figure out what the concern was about as opposed to it merely being kind of weird.
I suspect that it has more to do with fried chicken being seen as an American thing and as Obama is an American president who is also rather popular in Germany they thought they could make it work.