WTF ::: Juicy Obama Chicken Fingers

[jefferson_dem]

:wtf:
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Tender, Juicy Obama Fingers Hit the Shelves

By Charles Hawley

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.

"We noticed that American products and the American way of eating are trendy at the moment," Judith Witting, sales manager for Sprehe, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Americans are more relaxed. Not like us stiff Germans, like (Chancellor Angela) Merkel."

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,612684,00.html

[DS1]

1. Fried Chicken: The San Francisco Treat!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

2. I had some

They were terrible!

The racial aspects of it didn't occur to me until later though and the "YES WE CAN!" next to a cartoon picture of Uncle Sam on the weekly made it apparent that it was supposed to be an upbeat thing.

After the last 8 years of feeling guilty for my nationality, it is a nice change to see our flag and country associated with something positive again.

[Taverner]

3. Just goes to show the GERMANS LOVE DAVID HASSELHOFF!!!!