Deep Fried/Chips: Potato Chips For Peace!

Subject: Potato Chips For Peace!
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: gemorrow1 at msn.com (Gregory Morrow)
Date: 29 May 2002 02:10:02 -0700
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Arafat Potato Chips Take Egyptian Market by Storm

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips -- five cents a bag.

Vendors report brisk sales of the new product. The maker of the chips says it donates five cents -- 25 pisaters -- to the "Palestinian cause" for every 50 packages sold.

The chips are bagged in Palestinian colors -- green, red, black and white -- and carry the likeness of a rotund and wide-eyed Arafat, saluting with one hand and holding a Palestinian flag in the other. He's dressed in his trademark military fatigues and black-and-white checked headgear.

Shopkeepers say the Arafat chips, named Abu Ammar -- the Palestinian leader's nom de guerre, are considerably outselling another new brand, The Hero, which hit store shelves earlier this month. The packaging for that brand pictures a schoolboy holding a stone in his right hand and books in the other as he confronts an Israeli tank.

"There's no one who doesn't love Abu Ammar," said Iman Mohammed Darwish, a 12-year-old girl. "I like the taste, and I want to help the Palestinians."

"I sell at least three boxes (150 bags) of Abu Ammar daily," said Fatma Abdel-Ghani, a shopkeeper in the Cairo suburb of Thakanat Al-Maadi as she carefully placed boxes of Abu Ammar above those containing The Hero and other brands of chips.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict that erupted 20 months ago has captivated Egyptians of all social classes and has spawned movies and songs by pop stars in support of Arafat's cause. Most trade and professional unions have collected money, food and medicine for Palestinians.

As newspapers and television broadcasts have been dominated by the conflict, university students staged anti-Israeli demonstrations nearly every day and called on President Hosni Mubarak's government to break diplomatic relations with Israel.

The Arafat brand chips are produced by Al-Jawhara Co. for International Industries. The back of each bag reads: "The more you buy, the more you build."
From: stan at temple.edu
Date: 29 May 2002 13:16:44 GMT
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Vendors report brisk sales of the new product. The maker of the chips
> says it donates five cents -- 25 pisaters -- to the "Palestinian cause"
> for every 50 packages sold.

But are these new potato chips Kosher! :)
From: gemorrow1 at msn.com (Gregory Morrow)
Date: 30 May 2002 05:53:07 -0700
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stan at temple wrote:
> But are these new potato chips Kosher! :)

Or Halal? ;-)
From: gregzywicki at cs.com (Greg Zywicki)
Date: 29 May 2002 07:50:19 -0700
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I can't decide if your using the term "peace" to describe what these child sacrificing terrorists advocate is more reprehensible than your rape posts.

If the Egyptians really wanted to help the Palestinians, they'd stop using them as catspaws to destroy the Israelis.
From: gemorrow1 at msn.com (Gregory Morrow)
Date: 30 May 2002 06:10:09 -0700
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Greg Zywicki wrote:
> I can't decide if your using the term "peace" to describe what these
> child sacrificing terrorists advocate is more reprehensible than your
> rape posts.

I see that you are a newbie here. Just so you know, if you have been on this group for any length of time at all, you'd know what my stance on the "Palestinian" question is. Not only do I *not* recognize them as a viable ethnic/national group, I do *not* believe the "Palestinians" even deserve a homeland. You don't reward bad behavior (in this case terrorism and reneging on signed treaties and agreements) with treats, e.g. nationhood, international recognition, aid, or any aura of legitimacy.

IMNSHO, these chips are on the same plane as the lamp shades the Germans made from the skin of Jews, or the nice, warm socks the Germans wove for their troops from hair that was cut from the heads of Jews that were about to be tossed into the crematory.

It's too bad I'm not Jewish and Israeli - I'd be there doing everything I could to make sure Benjamin Netanyahu is brought back to power.

> If the Egyptians really wanted to help the Palestinians, they'd stop
> using them as catspaws to destroy the Israelis.

In this particular case, I'd refer to what the Arab world (including a number of our "friends" in that region) is doing to their
"Palestinian" comrades as a kind of "rape". And that is _really_ *reprehensible*.
From: gregzywicki at cs.com (Greg Zywicki)
Date: 30 May 2002 10:38:59 -0700
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> I see that you are a newbie here.

Hardly, but thanks for the compliment.

> Just so you know, if you have been
> on this group for any length of time at all, you'd know what my stance
> on the "Palestinian" question is.

I quickly wander away from most of the political threads, and usually regret it when I don't.

> IMNSHO, these chips are on the same plane as the lamp shades the
> Germans made from the skin of Jews

See, that was my response too, so when I saw your post, I was aghast at the sub line. I guess you must have been going for sarcasm and failed (wow, that's two failures in your sense of humor in less than a week. You better get it checked.)

> It's too bad I'm not Jewish and Israeli - I'd be there doing
> everything I could to make sure Benjamin Netanyahu is brought back to
> power.

This I don't get...How would Bebe be a better warrior than Sharon? (No wonder there's so much angst over there - so many of their leaders have girl's names. Sharon has two.)

Personally, I don't give the Israelis as much credit as you - they've done everything in their power in the last few decades to make the palestinian experience as close to that of the Jewish ghetto as possible.
From: MH (bastzine at worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:47:31 GMT
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Greg Zywicki wrote:
> I can't decide if your using the term "peace" to describe what these
> child sacrificing terrorists advocate is more reprehensible than your
> rape posts.

Consider the source, Greg Z, ...I guess he thinks strapping bombs to a 16-year-old girl and murdering innocent people is peaceful.
From: Jill McQuown
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 12:58:17 -0500
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Gregory Morrow wrote:
> CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips - five
> cents a bag.

I'll bet if they hit U.S. markets, the price will be $2 a bag.

Jill (who stays out of politics whenever possible)
From: penmart01 at aol.como (Sheldon)
Date: 02 Jun 2002 18:19:01 GMT
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"Arafats" seems like a better name for Pork Rinds.