MUMBAI, India - A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country’s small Jewish community.
Hitler’s Cross, which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.
“We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people’s minds,” owner Punit Shablok told Reuters.
...Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery. One slogan reads: “From Small Bites to Mega Joys.”
A huge portrait of a stern-looking Füehrer greets visitors at the door. The cross in the restaurant’s name refers to the swastika that symbolized the Nazi regime.
“This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal,” said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery’s name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.
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I really do not know what to say...other than I don't think I could enjoy either Hitler's small bites or his mega joys. Ever.
6 comments:
AWESOME!!!
i love shit like this.
Yeah- people be stoopid. And trust the media to pick up on it and broadcast it across the masthead of MSNBC.com. Because strife and sex sell.
yea, especially NAZIS. they still hold a high Q-factor (or whatever it is they measure popularity by in the media).
Nazis and Sex! My new name for a band.
I'm thinking of starting a Stalin Bistro, complete with gruesome pictures of mutilated dissidents in dark, dreary Llubjankas.
What do you think? Will it fly?
With enough vodka (and high end labels) it would fly. Did you know that in Fremont (a neighborhood of Seattle) there stands a Cold War statue of Lenin? By a brew pub. So Stalin ain't far off.
Especially if you add sex. Like hot topless drag queen waitstaff. Wearing those big fuzzy Russian hats. And army boots with 5" heels.
See- you got me going!
Every now and again, an inebriated Solzhenitsyn would make an appearance playing the balalaika and insulting your dates. Then offering to sell roses for $25/pop.
Noice!
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