"Eat Me!"
Posted on 03/13/2009 5:04:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.
Selling products has, of course, become a bit more difficult than usual these days. No wonder then that companies everywhere are turning to optimistic marketing messages in an effort to counteract the steady drum beat of negativity coming from front page headlines around the globe.
Many sales executives have drawn the same conclusion: What better poster child for hope than US President Barack Obama? There are Obama dolls, Obama T-shirts, Obama soap-on-a-rope. There is even Obama thong underwear on offer.
Not wanting to miss the boat, a German food company has now gotten into the act. Sprehe, a company that has all manner of frozen delicacies on offer, has come up with a new product it calls "Obama Fingers." Far from being real digits, though, the "fingers" in question are "tender, juicy pieces of chicken breast, coated and fried," as the product packaging claims.
Fried chicken, in other words. With a curry dip.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
MMMMMMMMM, cchhiicckkeenn
They’re chicken fingers. How’s that racist? Not that I’d buy anything with Obama on it. Heck, they’re probably negative calories and taxes your system when you eat them.
I wonder when the burning of said products will begin in mass. (t-shirts, hats & thongs- oh my)
it’s only racist to racists....
It said — “A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.”
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Well, actually I like “n*gger-toes” thank you...
[... hey! that’s what they’ve always been called since I was a little boy, no kidding!; had to asterisk-it-out to avoid the direct reference though, since people get so upset about it... LOL... ]
If you don’t know what they are, just ask... :-)
Anyone who’s ever eaten mixed nuts has had one, whether they know it or not. Another name is “Filberts” IIRC.
No. Brazil nuts
The correct name should be Obama Chicken Sh#* Fingers.
“For Americans in Germany, though, there is a risk that the product might be seen as racially insensitive.
Fried chicken has long been associated with African-Americans in the US —
naming strips of fried chicken after the first black president could cause some furrowing of brows.”
Sigh...
The Obama condoms were ok, though.
Sounds like a ripoff of Jesse Jackson’s Obama Nuggets franchise.
You said — “Another name is “Filberts” IIRC.”
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Nope, wrong one, but you’re getting close... :-)
They are all middle fingers, chicken fried, and useful for waving at other drivers if you do not want to eat them.
I’d tell you about the finger I’d like to give the sitting president, but this is a family forum.
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Fried chicken? Seriously?
Truth is stranger than fiction...
All they have to do is add a side of “Brazil Nuts” and then they really will be accused of being racists... LOL...
National dish of Kenya is ugali(cornmeal paste) and Nyama choma (roast beef).
"Eat Me!"
Brazil nuts.
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