Germans love Obama and his body parts
By now you have probably heard about Obama Fingers, the tasty new frozen chicken snack food* available in Germany. Although much ado has been made over the possible racist overtones of the convenience food’s name, personally I doubt that those behind the name intended offense. I’m guessing the only reason the fried chicken strips are named after Obama and not Bush is because no one would buy Bush Fingers.
Obama is a marketing machine over here in Germany. Notice him here pimping glasses at a optician in Munich’s Gärtnerplatz, in the most enthusiastic window display ever created by a German optician.
He does look lovely in those gray frames, doesn’t he?
* As a vegetarian, I’m going to have to sit the investigative journalism out, but other bloggers are all over it.
