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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Video: Sandwiches that can kill you

This segment was aired on Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) on June 12, 2008. It's called "A Lebanese Restaurant Serves Sandwiches "That Can Kill You".

Let's go to the videotape. A transcript follows and I will have a brief follow-up comment.



Reporter: This is not a military post. Rather, it is a fast-food restaurant in the southern suburb of Beirut. The name of the restaurance and its appearance make all the people passing by stop, but the dishes it serves are bound to make people stay longer Kalashnikov, RPG, Dragunov, Viper, B52 are all examples of these dishes.

Yousef Ibrahim, restaurant owner: I felt this was a good idea. It attracts customers in an unconventional way. I noticed that the moment I opened the place, there was a lot of business. Despite the militaristic concept, whoever looks at the menu starts laughing. My goal was to make people laugh before they ask me: "Why weapons?" If I gave the sandwiches regular names, everything would be plain.

Reporter: High-quality bread is used in Western dishes, but what might "terrorist bread" be?

Yousef Ibrahim: "Terrorist bread" is like a large pita bread, which is made in a special way. Since we, in the Middle East, are at the hub of terrorism, we decided to serve "terrorist bread."

Reporter: The restaurant's slogan is "A sandwich might kill you," because, as the owner says, its dishes are outstanding both in size and in taste. We chose the RPG sandwich - that is, chicken skewers – for lunch. How does it taste? Even though it has the name of a medium-range weapon, it is still nothing but a sandwich.
But give the 'Palestinians' a state reichlet and they'll all demilitarize immediately, right?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:54 PM

2 Comments:

At 2:48 PM, Blogger NormanF said...

A gun is still a gun and a sandwich is still a sandwich. In the Middle East, the mixed metaphors go to show that peace is a state of mind, not just lovely words inscribed on parchment. Arabs are far from ready to live in peace with other, never mind with the infidel Jews. It all begins at home and giving the Palestinians a reichlet won't transform the area into the Garden Of Eden in our lifetime.

 
At 7:46 PM, Blogger What is "Occupation" said...

the arabs need to be free...

so they can murder one another....

this is their inherited culture...

congrats to the terrorists for their victory over human values...

may they reap what they sow.

 

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