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This is too funny!

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Iran Renames Danish Pastries
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer

Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for 'Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.'

Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners' union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the Muslim prophet published in a Danish newspaper.

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Yeah.... the sociopolitical food thing again. Good grief.

Freedom fries, anyone?

British royal family changed their last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The reason? World War One broke out in 1914 and anit-German sentiment was at its height in 1917.

A rose by any other name-

Which reminds me of my old friend Irving Lipshitz, everone made fun of him so he changed his name to George ...