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(Some Pastry Chef)   Spurred by the success of Freedom Fries, Iran renames danishes. I'll have a cup of coffee and a cheese Mohammedan pastry, please   (adnki.com) divider line
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h0nestAbe
2006-02-07 12:17:46 PM  
Seems totally rational to me to attack an entire country based on the acts of a small group of individuals.

// Oh wait.
 
GoDeep
2006-02-07 12:20:45 PM  
Hey, my Danish looks like Moham-- er, never mind.
 
farkncorey
2006-02-07 12:22:56 PM  
I had a Danish roll for breakfast while standing on a ... Freedom Rug.
 
Netsloth
2006-02-07 12:27:17 PM  
GoDeep: Hey, my Danish looks like Moham


ROCK TO THE HEAD.

Die, infedel.
 
Cyberluddite [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-02-07 12:40:07 PM  
That's pretty damn stupid. And thank God we would never stoop to something so petty and ridiculous! God Bless America!

[image from kbsworld.net too old to be available]
 
willywanka
2006-02-07 1:06:24 PM  
has anyone ever noticed that the shiat they rename to spur pride and nationalism and all that is never good for you?

Those are Freedom Fries clogging your arteries! But no worries, its "good" cholestorol, because it supports the troops!

Hey, look at how high that apple Mohammedan spiked by blood sugar! I'm so proud I could just collapse on the floor!
 
Gosling
2006-02-07 3:29:10 PM  
Now is the time when Iran invades a random country halfway across the world that they see needs a change in government.

Oh god... RUN, SURINAME, RUN!
 
darkhorse23 [OhFark]
2006-02-07 3:36:31 PM  
So you can't draw a cartoon of Mohammed, yet you can make him into a donut and eat that?
 
Netsloth
2006-02-07 3:57:23 PM  
darkhorse23: yet you can make him into a donut and eat that?

Works for the Catholics.
 
Spectrum
2006-02-07 5:05:31 PM  
Smookyfufu saw this coming in a thread a week ago. Take a bow, great prognosticator.

2006-01-30 01:57:16 PM Smookyfufu
I wonder if they'll call danishes "Freedom Pastries".
 
InflatableJesus
2006-02-07 5:11:49 PM  
This is satire, right? This can't possibly be for real, right?!

RIGHT?!

*bangs head repeatedly on desk*
 
Dansker
2006-02-07 5:20:29 PM  
If they stick to this level of protest, I'm fine.
This is funny, at least.
 
Whale Burgher
2006-02-07 5:20:51 PM  
I'm calling fake ... does this story appear elsewhere?
 
baby_hewey
2006-02-07 5:22:59 PM  
Well, it just shows that those wacky Arabs take their ideas from America. Freedom Fries, Mohammad Pastry, at least Americans can make an illiteration out if it.

/stupid people
//I am taking donations to set up a lunar settelment.
///For just $5,000,000 you can gaurentee your apartment in the Lunar surface.
 
SkySnake
2006-02-07 5:23:41 PM  
Stupid, stupid idea. Even with the freedom fries thing, i don't think i've heard one person refer to them as "freedom fries". They're just fries dammit. I tell you, Iran is REALLY giving themselves a bad image by taking this thing too far, and their image isn't exactly great to begin with.
 
moops
2006-02-07 5:26:08 PM  
Republicans and Iranian fundamentalists have a lot in common.
 
Theobold Holsopple
2006-02-07 5:26:21 PM  
Wait for a blasphemous misquoted verse to be written in drizzled frosting.
 
Hypnosphere
2006-02-07 5:26:30 PM  
Netsloth

Works for the Catholics.

If only it were a donut my youthful years of Church going would have been that much tastier.
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-02-07 5:26:42 PM  
TFA Farked? Can't load the page.

/wants to eat a Danish & Bacon breakfast sandwich tomorrow.
 
Andulamb
2006-02-07 5:26:58 PM  
I find it oddly comforting to know that the rest of the world is as dumb as the U.S.
 
Tommy Moo
2006-02-07 5:27:06 PM  
You know what? At least they're not killing people. I like this. They're catching on to the whole notion of using symbolism and boycotts and other nonviolent means to express their dissatisfaction, and for that, I'm glad. Time was when they'd have just said "Ah, fark it. Let's shoot a missile at Isreal."

Maybe there's hope, but it's going to take time, generations even. Perhaps the Muslims who are children today will form a rational Muslim society in 30 years.
 
RaoulDuke
2006-02-07 5:28:00 PM  
i'm just waiting for the BIG asteroid.....
 
monobot2
2006-02-07 5:28:14 PM  
Also, in a departure from the traditional Danish recipe, the new pastry will be cooked over an open fire.

[image from shanghaidaily.com too old to be available]
 
rpm
2006-02-07 5:28:28 PM  
InflatableJesus: This is satire, right? This can't possibly be for real, right?!


From the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/international/middleeast/07cnd-iran.html

(sorry no linky, fark doesn't like it)


The Iranian Student News Agency reported that the Commerce Ministry d called for changing the name of Danish pastry to the name of a flower that is named after Prophet Muhammad. The idea was proposed in a letter to the ministry, the news agency said.
 
trapped-in-CH
2006-02-07 5:28:46 PM  
farked after 711 hits? 711?!?! gotta go - slurpie time.
 
Shrugging Atlas
2006-02-07 5:28:59 PM  
Does anyone here ever preceed the word 'fries' with anything when ordering them? French, Freedom, or whatever, I don't think I've ever asked for anything but 'fries.'
 
Uzi_Suicide
2006-02-07 5:29:07 PM  
Link farked already?
 
Jument
2006-02-07 5:29:20 PM  
Assuming this is true... there was a time when I thought Americans had a lock on stupidity. But I've come to realize that while Americans in general are fairly stupid and do lots of completely asinine things the rest of the world is pretty much the same.

America isn't stupid. People are stupid.

/sigh
//beam me up
 
Ulkesh
2006-02-07 5:29:42 PM  
baby_hewey: Well, it just shows that those wacky Arabs take their ideas from America.

Yes, those Farsi speaking Persian "Arabs" from Iran get all their ideas from America...
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-02-07 5:30:27 PM  
Theobold Holsopple "Wait for a blasphemous misquoted verse to be written in drizzled frosting."

[image from img322.imageshack.us too old to be available]

Burger King recalls 'sacrilegious' desserts
click

"THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.

The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a "jihad".

The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: "The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone."

/for the 5 of you who haven't seen this yet.
 
john_frink
2006-02-07 5:30:36 PM  
Denmark to take this to the next level by buying pastries in Iran, flying them back to Denmark, and feeding them to pigs.

Iran, ball is in your court.
 
mutt
2006-02-07 5:31:53 PM  
Tommy Moo: Perhaps the Muslims who are children today will form a rational Muslim society in 30 years.

Um, don't hold your breath.
 
Strange_Brew
2006-02-07 5:32:08 PM  
Danishes aren't even Danish, that's the funny thing. I've been to Denmark and my friends there, when I asked them if they ate Danishes, looked at me like I was from Planet WTF.
 
ga362
2006-02-07 5:32:30 PM  
Cup of coffee and a "tur bun."
 
Sam_Walton
2006-02-07 5:33:10 PM  
the_gospel_of_thomas:
Burger King recalls 'sacrilegious' desserts

Mmmm.... sacrilicious....
 
Rio_Yeti
2006-02-07 5:33:36 PM  
It will be a fitting end for humanity when we nuke ourselves out of existance over cartoons and unhealthy food.
 
Duhhh
2006-02-07 5:35:57 PM  
Whale Burgher
I'm calling fake ... does this story appear elsewhere?
They just beat the Onion to it. I wondered when this was going to happen, since there have been references to cheese Danishes in the threads recently.

I'm just wondering when there will be a Mohammed grilled cheese sandwich on E-Bay.
 
yotta
2006-02-07 5:36:06 PM  
What's wrong with Wienerbrot?
 
Helena Handbasket
2006-02-07 5:36:10 PM  
They should have called it an "Iranish" instead. That would be more fitting, considering the original name.
 
ivars
2006-02-07 5:37:41 PM  
Strange_Brew: That's because they're not called "Danishes" in Denmark, they're called "Kringles."

Is American Cheese still referred to as "Idiot Cheese" in France?

How about Jihad Cookies? That works for me.
 
Gunter glieben glauchen globen
2006-02-07 5:38:05 PM  
The Danes have responded by banning the song "I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls.
 
shadowself
2006-02-07 5:39:22 PM  
Tommy Moo: You know what? At least they're not killing people.

Oh, they're still killing people. This is just their coffee break.
 
muchomaas
2006-02-07 5:41:13 PM  
I think we discovered the mole. Smookyfufu is an Iranian agent.
 
BrockWillowcrest
2006-02-07 5:44:08 PM  
A flute without holes is not a flute. A donut without a hole is a Danish.

-- Ty Webb
 
TypoFlyspray
2006-02-07 5:46:35 PM  
Easy my friends, when it comes down to it, it's just a drawing by a nonbelieving Dane.
 
brownbag
2006-02-07 5:50:00 PM  
What?! Eating danishes is NO AGAINST THEIR RELIGION?!

Everything else is.

/Shiat. Everytime I think about a cheese danish I have a smellucination flashback sort of thing about them. Damn near taste it.
 
Jument
2006-02-07 5:51:48 PM  
Strange_Brew
Danishes aren't even Danish, that's the funny thing. I've been to Denmark and my friends there, when I asked them if they ate Danishes, looked at me like I was from Planet WTF.

That tickled my funny bone so I looked it up. Apparently the Danish was created in Austria but made popular or tweaked a bit by Danes, so I don't think that's really true. Too bad - it was funny.
 
RoadPizza
2006-02-07 5:52:46 PM  
Are we still allowed to do cartoons of pastries or would that still be blasphemous?
 
Baron Krelve
2006-02-07 5:52:46 PM  
Can't believe nobody's said it yet...

Mmmmmm... Mohammedan pastry.
 
brownbag
2006-02-07 5:54:15 PM  
ooh. ooh. ohh. I have another idea.

The Iranians could have their own version of the Nun Bun. But theirs could be the whole nun not just the head. They could cut off the head and eat that, and then drag the headless pasty through their DAMN DIRTY UNPAVED BARBARIAN STREETS.
 
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