What did you eat this morning? Was it a Danish? Not if you live in Tehran, it wasn’t. You see, in Iran the flaky pastry with filling of cheese or whatever is no longer a “Danish”. Instead it’s a Rose of the Prophet Mohammed.
Yes, that’s right. When international tension boils over, there’s nothing better to do than rename common food items. Stupid Iranians. I can’t imagine where they got that idea.
I just find it highly amusing that the House committee that oversees the Congressional cafeterias was chaired by none other than Bob Ney, aka Representative #1 in Jack Abramoff’s plea deal.
I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re an idiot, as long as you’re a well-connected idiot.
Well, I have to give 'em credit: “Rose of the Prophet Mohammed” has a much more eloqent ring to it than does “freedom fries”, which even I thought was ridiculous.
Fundamentalist #1: “They have blasphemed our one and only holy of all that is holy prophets!!”
Fundamentalist #2: “And how did they do that ?”
Fundy #1: “They drew a picture of him!!”
Fundy #2: “What should we do?”
Fundy #1: “We should offset that travesty by honoring he who’s name may not be uttered in the most grand fashion imaginable. We will name a roll after him!”
We had another thread on this in the boards already.
As I said there, the whole “freedom fries” thing was much more media hype than reality. I never saw “freedom fries” on the menu of any restaurant I ever entered. Not that there weren’t a few such places, but they were quite rare. The whole thing was sure played up by the media, however, especially overseas. It was even mentioned in the film Before Sunset.
The Iranian thing could likely be much of the same. We don’t know how many Iranians really are going around calling Danishes the whole “roses” thing. As far as I know there has been no law passed in Iran mandating this, although Iran has cut off trade with Denmark. Knowing what I do of Iranians, this will be taken as yet another stupid thing to ignore by young folks there. Only the hardcore Islamists will likely go along with it.
If they get pissed off at the Germans and have to rename the Frankfurter, I wonder what Mohammed analogy that will conjure up.
I think the freedom fries thing was a big deal because that’s what they were called in the House of Rep eateries. I don’t believe it ever took off in the country as a whole.
But “liberty measles” is a bit much. Why worry about changing the name of a disease-- it’s hardly an honor for peope to link you with sickness?
