Starvin'? How About Some Obama Fingers!

[Reephdweller]

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1460924,00.jpg

Would you eat these?

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.

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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."


The idea, she claimed, was to get in on the Obama-mania which is continuing to grip Germany. The word "fingers" in the name refers to the fact that it is a finger food. "It's like hotdogs," Witting said. "No one would ever think they are actually from dogs."
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.



Witting told SPIEGEL ONLINE the connection never even occurred to her. "It was supposed to be a homage to the American lifestyle and the new US president," she said.


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

[Aggie]

It's not even dark meat!?!? Pointless. :thumbdown:

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I'd eat that shit and ask for seconds. Then I'd puke it up and spell the letters 'OBAMA WAZ HERE' on Katja's porch. Barfing a 'Z' is much easier than puking an 'S'.

[kdubya]

I just want some of the curry dip

[A.J.]

They should market it as a halal product to honor Obama's Muslim heritage.

[TheMojoPin]

Germany is weird.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

Germans that are unaware of racism is the biggest loff I've had in awhile

[GregoryJoseph]

Savages.

Curry dip?

[JerseyRich]

I'm going to wash those fuckers down with a Sharpton Shake.

[TheMojoPin]

Savages.

Curry dip?

Don't tell me your a curry hater.

All of my impressions of you as a man of sound mind when it came to food are being crushed left and right lately.

[SatCam]

As long as they're not his toes

http://www.thenutfactory.com/photos/nuts-brazil-raw.jpg

[DarkHippie]

I'd rather BBQ sauce

[Hottub]

Honey mustard?

[hedges]

Doesn't stuff like this cause riots over there. A cartoon can do it, why not " Obama Fingers."

[scottinnj]

Barfing a 'Z' is much easier than puking an 'S'.

IS IT?

:clap:

[scottinnj]

Doesn't stuff like this cause riots over there. A cartoon can do it, why not " Obama Fingers."

Haven't you heard? Obama's our muslim, not theirs! It's easier to point chicken fingers at someone you don't know then someone who is your neighbor

[~Katja~]

I just want some of the curry dip

Germany is weird.

Savages.

Curry dip?

this company's gotta be right out of Berlin... the only area where junk food like bratwurst gets seasoned with curry


I can see how they are unaware though.. I never knew of the kfc/ fried chicken or watermelon being related to african americans before I lived here for a while.

[Drunky McBetidont]

arsenio fingers have much more meat

http://www.mtv.com/content/ontv/vma/archive/images/1988/flipbook/1988_host_arsenio4.jpg

[~Katja~]

well I checked and they are far from Berlin but strangely enough have been selling a very similar product as asian food before

http://www.sprehe.de/produkte/jpgs/52201.jpg
Hähnchenbrustfilet Asia, Curry Dip, gegart

they probably just wanted to get in on the positive feedback for Obama in Europe... some marketing people are just ignorant to possible double meanings of words or symbolism.

"Americans are more relaxed. Not like us stiff Germans, like (Chancellor Angela) Merkel."

this also made me laugh... ARE THEY?

[hedges]

Haven't you heard? Obama's our muslim, not theirs! It's easier to point chicken fingers at someone you don't know then someone who is your neighbor

Makes sense to me, especially when you used the chicken fingers to make your point.

[Brad in Bama]

I'd eat em. I'm surprised at the Golden Gate Bridge though

[~Katja~]

I'd eat em. I'm surprised at the Golden Gate Bridge though

nah... most American products will in some way have a flag, the statue of liberty or the golden gate bridge on it... its what Europeans associate with America much like Americans think Lederhosen and Dirndl for Germans

[deliciousV]

[QUOTE=~Katja~;2171220]this company's gotta be right out of Berlin... the only area where junk food like bratwurst gets seasoned with curry



I spent a couple of years in Bremerhaven, a lifetime ago, curryworst was a staple. It was on every menu. So I must humbly disagree. The animals do put mayonaise on french fries though, which is disturbing.

[TheMojoPin]

I spent a couple of years in Bremerhaven, a lifetime ago, curryworst was a staple. It was on every menu. So I must humbly disagree. The animals do put mayonaise on french fries though, which is disturbing.

Mayo on fries is delicious.

Katja, please don't quote me with those curry-haters. I love curry as a condiment. My comment was how it's weird to name a meat product after another nation's leader's fingers.

[scottinnj]

Mayo on fries is delicious.



That is just a glimpse of the glory of mojo

And curryworst is gift to the Europeans from the Nordic gods themselves.

D E L I C I O U S ! ! ! !

[~Katja~]

I spent a couple of years in Bremerhaven, a lifetime ago, curryworst was a staple. It was on every menu. So I must humbly disagree. The animals do put mayonaise on french fries though, which is disturbing.

yes the company is right from that area... I did not realize they were also into curry there, I do know it's a biggie in Berlin, west berlin to be more exact...

the fries white-red are great. I love it that way.
We all eat potato salad, why so disgusted by mayo on potatoes

Mayo on fries is delicious.

Katja, please don't quote me with those curry-haters. I love curry as a condiment. My comment was how it's weird to name a meat product after another nation's leader's fingers.

I know it seems weird and creepy, but from what I understand from my family the fact that Obama won has made a big impact on Germany... they worship him...

and after all we have Berliner, Hamburger... Frankfurter... plenty of foods get named after an area or town... I guess Obama represents America and the chicken fingers represent American food...

[A.J.]

My comment was how it's weird to name a meat product after another nation's leader's fingers.

At least they didn't name it after another part of his body.

http://www.morethings.com/fan/blazing_saddles/madeline_kahn-cleavon_little.jpg

[Aggie]

At least they didn't name it after another part of his body.

http://www.morethings.com/fan/blazing_saddles/madeline_kahn-cleavon_little.jpg

Now that would be something I could get from behind..ah...I mean behind.

[~Katja~]

another racy ad, this time from russia

http://ohellnawlblog.com/newohnblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/barack-obama-ice-cream-ad-7204-1237384106-81-356x500.jpg

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/03/18/is-bizarre-russian-obama-ice-cream-ad-racist/