'hitler' Chicken Causing A Flap

[Flashermac]

 

The opening of a "Hitler" chicken restaurant in Bangkok is the latest of several examples of Thailand's seeming obsession with the Nazi leader.

 

The restaurant's red sign looks similar to that of KFC, except that the fascist dictator's head appears where that of Colonel Sanders should be.

 

Images of the restaurant taken by shocked customers are making the rounds on Twitter, according to a report on Friday in the Daily Mail in London.

 

Andrew Spooner, a Bangkok-based journalist who spotted the restaurant, tweeted: "Very bizarre Hitler Fried Chicken shop in Thailand. I kid you not. Complete with pic of Hitler in bow tie."

 

"I went in for a bite last week and got some fried chicken, which was pretty good, and asked the guy behind the counter why it was called Hitler," the Daily Mail quoted Bangkok resident Alan Robertson, 43, as saying.

 

"He just shrugged his shoulders and said the owners had thought it was good image."

 

The use of Hitler in all kinds of ways - including in an infamous advertisement for potato chips in the 1990s - is commonplace in Thailand.

 

Social critics have said the Thai education system has failed to impress on people that Hitler was not some kind of cartoon figure from the distant past but a monster responsible for millions of deaths.

 

However, it's not unusual to see teenagers in T-shirts bearing comical images of the dictator. In another popular design seen locally, Hitler is transformed into Ronald McDonald.

 

Thailand was the focus of international outrage in September 2011 when a group of high school students paraded around on a sports day in home-made Nazi uniforms, complete with swastika armbands and toy guns.

 

The school claimed it had no idea what the students had been planning and it quickly apologised.

 

Two years earlier, a wax museum in Pattaya promoted itself with a giant billboard featuring the dictator and the Thai words, "Hitler is not dead!"

 

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/358530/hitler-chicken-causing-a-flap

[Plainsdrifter]

It just reinforces the image of Thais living in a world of their own, unaware of what goes on outside their country.

 

Lets not forget, they also believe farangs are all rich and handsum....

[waerth]

Anyone knows where this place is?

[waerth]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/hitler-fried-chicken_n_3550351.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

 

KFC Threatens Legal Action Against 'Hitler'

[waerth]

It is in Ubon btw:

 

http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/358663/hitler-chicken-off-the-menu

 

'Hitler' chicken is history

 

 

A widely circulated story about a fried-chicken restaurant in Thailand bearing the name and image of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is stale news.

The story was first published on Friday in the London-based Daily Mail, one of the world's most visited news sites, and was picked up by the Bangkok Post among countless others.

The story has a basis in fact but the 'Hitler' restaurant has long since undergone an image makeover as the owner wanted to avoid criticism of any Nazi association. The Daily Mail observed that Hitler's image has appeared and continues to appear in many unusual places in Thailand.

The restaurant is in Ubon Ratchathani, not Bangkok as reported by the Daily Mail. Today it is known as 'H-ler' and bears a different sign, a local correspondent in the northeastern province said.

The picture used in the Daily Mail story was taken sometime in 2011 and copies have appeared in various online forums including Amusingthailand.com.

Andrew Spooner, a Bangkok-based journalist, expressed bemusement at the exposure the old news had received. "My tweet from a couple of months back about Hitler Fried Chicken in Thailand is in Daily Mail," he wrote on Twitter yesterday.