http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/OddNew...r=3&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranians love Danish pastries, but now when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad." ALI AKAR DAREINI Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners union ordered the name change in retaliation for cartoons of Islam's revered Prophet first published in a Danish newspaper. The move was reminiscent of a decision by the US House of Representatives in 2004 to rename french fries as "freedom fries" after France refused to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to Rose of Mohammad' pastries," the confectioners union said in its order. "This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam," said Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake-shop owner in northern Tehran. Oh, God. Oh, please. No more. Geoff
How superficial...asking for a name change. If they had any moral backbone they would stop eating them!
And all in the name of religion, it's good to know we humans have not strayed to far from the hole of which we crawled out from.
This is as silly as calling French Fries "Freedom" Fries. As opposed to those who misuse Freedom of Religion to kill people and disrupt the world economy. It's nice to see that the US doesn't have a monopoly on reactionary idiocy. I'll have my Danish pastry with a side of French fries, please, and I'll enjoy them while my German Shepherd and Welsh Corgi chase my American Shorthair Tabby into an English box hedge.
Im not much of a pastry fan myself i like a provber cake of somesort, banana or carrot cake comes to mind. I actual bougth a waffle iron recently, greate fun and tasty, well not the waffle iron but the waffle made with it. But now im contemplating finding a pancake iron/waffle iron since waffles a limited in what you can put on then, where as with pancakes the options are so much more divese, and pancakes a better anyway.
Excellent point - "we love Mohammed, don't get us wrong - deathzie to the kufrzie, aight? - but the taste of these pastries is just heavenly". Campaign slogan for Danish pastry company? Sounds like a winner. Geoff
Kunax- Try a crepe. It's like what happens when you introduce the French to the burrito. (Or is a burrito what happens when you introduce the Mexicans to a crepe?)
i never called french fries freedom fries but i do remember ordering a pizza and being asked what kind of sausage i wanted on it i said american
"French crepes filled with a sweet cream sauce over bananas and topped with whipped cream." droooools, i think i will have to look more in to this Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I can see it now. A terrorist runs into a bakery with a dozen Hostess Ho-Hos strapped around his waist... (Dammit, now that crepe thing has me all hungry.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!)
If someone would have told me to start calling french fries "freedom" fries, I would have laughed in their faces, and than ordered some more french fries. This whole cartoon debacle is actually turning quite humorous. At first I was pissed at the idiocy, now I just laugh. Those Muslims, can't get enough of their Danish pastries, huh? And while their at it, might as well shut down the local McDonalds for using American cheese on their cheeseburgers. The United States had nothing to do with the cartoons, you say? Tell someone who cares, DEATH TO AMERICA! /SARCASM
recipe for the "Afghanisandwich ala Freedom" 1. take 2 slices of fresh bread. 2. add a liberal amount of sand. 3. make sure your political settings are "ripe for regime change". 4. move your sandwich to a politically volatile area of the world. 5. add 1/6th ounce "CIA mustard". 6. spread the mustard over one side of the bread. 7. add 1/6th ounce "Taliban Endorsed Mayonaisse" 8. crash a plane into a building. 9. enjoy your sandwich.
hah we(the Danes) are so extreamly popular around the world, especial in the middle east. They, the egyptians or rather a famous egyptian singer has honoered us with a song, a specially little song writen just for us, to warm our hearts in this cold time until summer finialy breaks the bonds of winter, how considerate and nice of them, so sweet. Unforthenly i cannot find the lyrices and my egyptian is so rusty that i cannot understand what he says, but im sure its all good Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
