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February 16, 2006

No danish pastries for Iran

In something out of the pages of The Onion, Iran has renamed danish pastries:

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."

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.

Posted by Nicholas at February 16, 2006 04:56 PM
Comments
Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners union ordered the name change See, Alan? It's those damned unions again! Posted by: Jon at February 16, 2006 05:51 PM
And then what do they do if the face of the Virgin Mary appears on one? Posted by: havril at February 16, 2006 11:16 PM
Oh, that's an easy one: stone the baker and set fire to the bakery. That's what infidels should expect when they try to convert the faithful to their perverted heretic creed, Kufr. Posted by: Nicholas at February 17, 2006 09:55 AM
I blame the weak-kneed sissiness of confectioners all, labout and management. Posted by: Alan at February 17, 2006 11:26 AM
Foythermoah, I wrote the following on the same quote at Michael Demmon's site which is more the point: "What is the connection of the pastrymen of Iran to the Islamo-fascist building burners? Is it as close as the staff of the restaurant in the Congress who started the Freedom Fries thing as that Congress in that same building debated and voted to go to war? "The saddest things is that Danish pastries are unknown to Danish cuisine. Like Russian dressing. When will the lies end?" Posted by: Alan at February 17, 2006 11:28 AM
I first recall encountering "Danish" pastries in, ironically, a tiny little hole-in-the-wall bakery in a small mall in Toronto. The owners were clearly Middle Eastern, although I have no idea whether they were Islamic. I must have been about seven or eight. Anyone have a clue how "Danish" pastries got their name? Anyone, anyone, Bueller? Posted by: Nicholas at February 17, 2006 11:42 AM


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