HFC - Hitler Fried Chicken

[MaDalton]

In case you ever go to Bangkok: The chicken is said to be not so bad

[Feng-PD]

hahaha thats awesome.. every chicken grows there with a mustache :P

[just a punk]

Жесть как она есть

[privatesociety]

LMAO.... I guess thats one way to go and get yourself sued!

[pornmasta]

At least, it's chicken...

[seeandsee]

hitlers cock!

[RandyRandy]

It's fried, so that's okay. Now, if it was oven-baked. . .

[Scott McD]

Well there's something you don't see every day...

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

At least, it's chicken...

Yeah, but who eats chicken raised in concentration coops?

[Rochard]

Yummy. I love Hilter chicken!

[Jman]

It is not the special secret spice that makes it so good, it's the special "oven" they cook it into...

[scubadiver626]

Originally Posted by Jman

It is not the special secret spice that makes it so good, it's the special "oven" they cook it into...

LOL that's fucked up. What's wrong with Thailand!? I've seen swastikas in pics at markets... I can't believe they're supporters, i'd imagine just ignorant.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by scubadiver626

LOL that's fucked up. What's wrong with Thailand!? I've seen swastikas in pics at markets... I can't believe they're supporters, i'd imagine just ignorant.

well - do not confuse the swastikas...

i met a girl that had them tattooed on her wrist and ankle, it's actually an acient symbol for good luck. until Hitler abused it for his politics

but for the rest they are just ignorant

[globofun]

.....with Pepsi! I am sure the Pepsi rep for that area got a phone call from the main office! lol

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

It was used, rather controversially, by some punk musicians in the 70's as a counterpoint to hippie idealism ? but how would you feel now if you saw swastikas on t-shirts worn by teenagers, apparently stripped of any meaning much like a Che Guevara head?

Furthermore, how would you react to the sight of a store in a Bangkok, Thailand shopping mall ? that usual space of blandly commercial aesthetics ? that sold t-shirts of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's head superimposed onto the bodies of Western mascots and icons, such as Ronald McDonald, even Shepard Fairey's iconic "HOPE" poster?

This story has sporadically seen attention in several Western news outlets throughout last year, most recently receiving ink from British rag the Daily Mail. Known as Seven Star, the store is also a showcase for the cartooning skills of its proprietor, Hut, who according to the blog Tasty Thailand thinks the designs look "cool."

This is somewhat different from the Daily Mail's interpretation, which depending on your view unpacks the humor or imposes meanings that weren't previously there: "Hitler [is turned into] into nothing more than a cartoon figure. A figure of fun and derision ? a buffoonish Ronald McDonald-esque character or a roly-poly Tellytubby. And that?s how he should be thought of as. A ridiculous character that, in the modern world, would hopefully not be allowed to survive very long."

As the world of internet memes, as well as the unforgettable musical sabotage in the classic 1967 film The Producers, have shown, attempts to bar the historical legacy of Hitler and the Nazis from the realm of humor are futile and could even let more people forget about those atrocities. Hut's semiotic experiments, and the placement of Hitler's head on Colonel Sanders's body in the fried-chicken restaurant mentioned by the Daily Mail, also draw a connection between the iconography of capitalist globalization and that of fascism in a way that some of us lefties might find ... interesting.

More disturbing ? and worthy of deeper investigation than just quoting Westerners' tweets, as the author of the Tasty Thailand post seems to have done ? is the arbitrary use of swastikas in events such as a sport day in Chiang Mai, where high school students showed up in homemade Nazi uniforms.

Following outcries from all over the world, teachers at the schools apologized for the students. "Most young Thais seemingly know precious little about the Nazis and their crimes beyond their eye-catching pageantry. And so they are drawn to Hitler and his regime?s hallucinogenic visual propaganda," wrote Tibor Krausz at CNN Travel.

The hypnotism of the symbol might run deeper than the mid-20th century, however. Its popularity throughout Asia, with recent sightings in Taiwan, South Korea, India, and Japan might derive from its origins, which go as far back as Indus Valley Civilizations. It also has importance to Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as more recent traditions, such as Cao Dai and Falun Gong. So perhaps, more than a declaration of Nazi sympathies, this just a reclaiming of an ancient icon ? or an acknowledgment of the ironies around its use.

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[itx]

LOL

[mikesouth]

Originally Posted by scubadiver626

LOL that's fucked up. What's wrong with Thailand!? I've seen swastikas in pics at markets... I can't believe they're supporters, i'd imagine just ignorant.

Actually the "Swastika" is a very old symbol in Sanskrit and in Theravada Buddhism it signifies both the heart and the "footprint" of the Buddha

Hitler basically stole the symbol and inverted it for his use.

Im most Buddhist countries it has NOTHING to do with Nazi germany

[RandyRandy]

Originally Posted by mikesouth

Actually the "Swastika" is a very old symbol in Sanskrit and in Theravada Buddhism it signifies both the heart and the "footprint" of the Buddha

Hitler basically stole the symbol and inverted it for his use.

Im most Buddhist countries it has NOTHING to do with Nazi germany

Absolutely true - except the photo doesn't show a swastika - it says and shows Hitler - which has EVERYTHING to do with Nazi Germany. I'd like to understand the thought process behind naming their store Hitler.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

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[brassmonkey]

you come up missing after your meal

[SilentKnight]

Prepared fresh daily with 7 different herbs, spices...and cyclon B.

[mikesouth]

Originally Posted by RandyRandy

Absolutely true - except the photo doesn't show a swastika - it says and shows Hitler - which has EVERYTHING to do with Nazi Germany. I'd like to understand the thought process behind naming their store Hitler.

absolutely true BUT the photo has no depiction of a swastika in it. I was answering the whole swastika thingy

[pornmasta]

What ? no shower ? chicken, chicken, chicken....

[RandyRandy]

Originally Posted by mikesouth

absolutely true BUT the photo has no depiction of a swastika in it. I was answering the whole swastika thingy

And I found your response very interesting along with the great photo (I wasn't aware of the swastika's history - I thought it began in Germany). Just asking how does a Thai businessman wake up one day and say - you know what? Let's sell fried chicken and use Hitler's image for our name/logo. I'd love to know how that went. BTW, been to Thailand 5 times - Bangkok is one of my favorite places on earth.

[bluebook18]

Lolllllllll

[mikesouth]

The Thai culture and Buddhism in particular would not see these depictions as flattering but more "making him small"

I remember a big billboard on the freeway between bangkok and pattaya that had a picture of hitler doing a seig Heil with thai writing on it thats said "He Lives" a few miles down the road there was one that said the same thing with Michael jackson....It was advertising for a wax museum. Thai people get that westerners dont. Accept the fact that they have a very different culture than our judeo-christian ideology and the concept of politically correct is completely foreign to them.

I love Thailand and its libertarian ideology (moreso than ours anyway)

[CT-Content]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

Fitting thread topic coming from a guy who's surrounded by the Czechoslovakian Neo Nazi movement !

[scubadiver626]

thx for the swastika education, clearly i'm the ignorant one... to think, I thought I knew a bunch about Asia.

Although, I remember seeing a documentary stating Hitler got it from a Aryan sect in Austria in the 1920's.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by CT-Content

Fitting thread topic coming from a guy who's surrounded by the Czechoslovakian Neo Nazi movement !

actually: let's start with the fact that "Czechoslovakia" doesn't exist anymore since 1993

[Zeiss]

Hitler fried chicken

[adulttraffic]

Originally Posted by RandyRandy

And I found your response very interesting along with the great photo (I wasn't aware of the swastika's history - I thought it began in Germany). Just asking how does a Thai businessman wake up one day and say - you know what? Let's sell fried chicken and use Hitler's image for our name/logo. I'd love to know how that went. BTW, been to Thailand 5 times - Bangkok is one of my favorite places on earth.

The swastika was not invented by Germany or Hitler. According to history, when Hitler was a youth he saw this symbol in a church in Austria and adopted it for the 3rd Reich. The symbol is actually 1000's of years old.

[globofun]

Hitler is cool in Asia and India....he's everywhere!

[Zeiss]

Originally Posted by adulttraffic

The swastika was not invented by Germany or Hitler. According to history, when Hitler was a youth he saw this symbol in a church in Austria and adopted it for the 3rd Reich. The symbol is actually 1000's of years old.

Yes. It means "be good" or sth like that.

[Si]

The Swastika history is pretty varied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

Anyway, i was going to say.............

Unt how ist ze chicken stored? Cooler, three veeks.

[DWB]

For most Asians, Hitler is just another fashionable historic icon, like Che or Mao is to western culture. However, if you ask them (especially SE Asians) what his role in history was, 99.999% of them won't have a clue. They are not taught a lot of world history in school.

Hitler was a vegan

[pornmasta]

hitler was parkinson



and no animated gif with his arm...

[adult-help]

Hitler basically stole the symbol and inverted it for his use.

i was sure about this too - until i found swastika on many temples and buddhas that are just like hitler's swastika - the same direction. Some are different direction and some are the same direction.