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mac-at-kearsarge · Aug 23, 2006, 11:16 AM

Some A-hole in India has decided to open a Nazi themed resteraunt called "Hitler's Cross".

I do have a problem witht he thought of "George Bush Sneakers" too. If they were anything like his time in office, you could run, but end up going down all the wrong roads.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/artic..._hitlers_name/

demograph68 · Aug 23, 2006, 11:24 AM

Their roasted jews are delicious.

Too soon?

MindFad · Aug 23, 2006, 11:26 AM

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha.

That was ****ing horrible.

Eug · Aug 23, 2006, 11:31 AM

I wonder how many people there truly understand the insult:

or

vs.

Dino-Rider · Aug 23, 2006, 11:33 AM

Weird. I wonder if the bus boys are dressed like SS officers or anything.

Kevin · Aug 23, 2006, 11:37 AM

I'd go and ask for a kosher meal.

Dino-Rider · Aug 23, 2006, 11:45 AM

The only really good thing about hitler is he pretty much made the best videogame bad guys ever. I love shooting nazis.

Eug · Aug 23, 2006, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

I'd go and ask for a kosher meal.

The ironic part is that you'd probably get it (almost), since they'd likely have vegetarian meals for their Hindu customers.

turtle777 · Aug 23, 2006, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Eug

I wonder how many people there truly understand the insult:

You DO know that the swastika as a very old symbol, predating the Nazis by thousands of years ?

-t

Eug · Aug 23, 2006, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

You DO know that the swastika as a very old symbol, predating the Nazis by thousands of years ?

I guess the point of the post was lost on you then.

Basically, I was just reiterating the fact that the swastika has been a part of their culture (and other cultures) for millenia, so some of the locals may not quite understand the insult that is a swastika-adorned Hitler restaurant.

Similarly, I've seen a Nazi flag hung in Taiwan on a residential building. I'm pretty sure the people flying that flag had no idea it was a Nazi flag, and just thought it was a nice Buddhist symbol.

turtle777 · Aug 23, 2006, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Eug

I guess the point of the post was lost on you then.

Basically, I was just reiterating the fact that the swastika has been a part of their culture (and other cultures) for millenia, so some of the locals may not quite understand the insult that is a swastika-adorned Hitler restaurant.

Yeah, that did get lost, at least with me.

Anyways, we both agree on the same point.

-t

Cody Dawg · Aug 23, 2006, 04:26 PM

I'd go in and ask for kosher beef.

TETENAL · Aug 23, 2006, 04:54 PM

Original use of the apostrophe here.

KeyLimePi · Aug 24, 2006, 08:25 AM

It's a shame what they did to that Polish sausage place that used to be there.

Kr0nos · Aug 24, 2006, 08:48 AM

I heard their desert special is called 'Endsieg'…

macroy · Aug 24, 2006, 09:26 AM

hehe...

'"Hitler was a bad man, but what's wrong with having food here?" said Ashwini Phadnis, 22, a microbiology student as she ate a piece of chocolate cake....'

I'm thinking Babbu from Seinfield....

nonhuman · Aug 24, 2006, 09:29 AM

Personally I think people should be free to open a restaurant like that. They just shouldn't expect my business (or that of many other people, really), and I'd imagine they wouldn't do as well as other restaurants and eventually close.

Dino-Rider · Aug 24, 2006, 09:31 AM

I would definitely go to a restaurant filled with scary nazi stuff if it was called "Castle Wolfenstein". That'd be a riot.

Cody Dawg · Aug 24, 2006, 10:31 AM

Try opening a restaurant/cafe here called "Apple Store Cafe" and see how fast Apple sues you. The fact is that free enterprise isn't always so free.

DigitalEl · Aug 24, 2006, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Linked Article

Tomorrow if someone keeps a name like 'Saddam Mutton Shop'

Now THAT is funny.

As for Hitler's Cross... Just bizarre. The article did mention Holocaust awareness was limited in India. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe it's more out of ignorance than malice. <shrug>

Gossamer · Aug 24, 2006, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by the article

Owner Puneet Sablok insisted then -- and still does -- that the name and theme of his new eatery is only meant to attract attention, with its posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas.
"There is no intention to hurt anyone," Sablok said of his spacious restaurant, which serves pastries, pizza and salad in Navi Mumbai, a northern suburb of Bombay, which is also known as Mumbai.

He named it that as a publicity stunt. And I remember hearing that the swastika is the good-luck symbol backwards, not in pure form. And it's QUITE obvious he is not using it in the context of good luck, or Hindu whatever, as the entire theme of the restaurant is Nazism.

Anand · Aug 24, 2006, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

He named it that as a publicity stunt. And I remember hearing that the swastika is the good-luck symbol backwards, not in pure form. And it's QUITE obvious he is not using it in the context of good luck, or Hindu whatever, as the entire theme of the restaurant is Nazism.

Agreed, the theme is nazism and nothing else. India should be ashamed... As an Indian-American, I am...

DigitalEl · Aug 24, 2006, 12:08 PM

Anand, do you agree w/the article's author that Holocaust awareness is limited in the country?

Chuckit · Aug 24, 2006, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Try opening a restaurant/cafe here called "Apple Store Cafe" and see how fast Apple sues you. The fact is that free enterprise isn't always so free.

There's a minor difference between trademark infringement and arbitrary restrictions like "you can't have a restaurant with such-and-such a theme just because I don't like it.

analogika · Aug 24, 2006, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

He named it that as a publicity stunt. And I remember hearing that the swastika is the good-luck symbol backwards, not in pure form.

That is not the case.

For example, I have some antique Japanese furniture that has clockwise swastikas all over it.

However, the Nazi swastika was always featured clockwise.

driven · Aug 24, 2006, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dino-Rider

I would definitely go to a restaurant filled with scary nazi stuff if it was called "Castle Wolfenstein". That'd be a riot.

Nice ...... :-)

Chuckit · Aug 24, 2006, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

And I remember hearing that the swastika is the good-luck symbol backwards, not in pure form.

Both ways exist. The swastika is opposite of how the symbol is usually oriented in Buddhism, but the swastika's orientation isn't unique to Nazism.

n8236 · Aug 24, 2006, 11:46 PM

They might need to hire some German neo-nazi chicks to serve me.

Anand · Aug 25, 2006, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by DigitalEl

Anand, do you agree w/the article's author that Holocaust awareness is limited in the country?

Yes. In fact during WWII, many people were rooting for the Germans! The holocaust was unknown and anybody fighting the british could not be that bad....

Doofy · Aug 25, 2006, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dino-Rider

The only really good thing about hitler is he pretty much made the best videogame bad guys ever.

*cough* Autobahns. Porsche 911 layout.