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Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - ka jowct - 08-25-2006
Just think: some designer got paid to do this:
I love the disclaimer:
he consul generals of Israel and Germany became embroiled in the dispute, requesting the owners to change the name.
Initially they refused to do so, saying that they were only using the name and not promoting Hitler in any manner.
Uh huh.
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - bfd - 08-25-2006
[quote Harbourmaster]There used to be a restaurant here when I was a kid named "Sambo's". I remember that the kids menu was made so that you could punch out eye and mouth …
The LAPD officers who encountered Rodney King must've had a few free meals there themselves …
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - trisho. - 08-25-2006
[quote Mike Johnson]When I'm in New York City I've been known to frequent KGB Bar and while I think it may have closed, Nikita on MacDougal Street was definitely more Nikita Khruschev than La Femme Nikita."
Yeah, I still don't understand how KGB Bar hasn't been shut down by the goverment yet. It's really obviously a gathering for Eastern Bloc Communist/Soviet sympathizers, among other types...seriously. The inside of it is all red and there are posters of Soviet leaders along with the owners' grandparents hung up in there. And it is not kitsch, it's deliberate.
I think Nikita is still around as well. Maybe 3d can confirm.
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - max - 08-25-2006
Sambo's was a chain. Very big in the 70's.
At one point there were over 1000 of them. Mostly West Coast, I think.
I have not seen any in the East...
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - Racer X - 08-25-2006
[quote Harbourmaster]There used to be a restaurant here when I was a kid named "Sambo's". I remember that the kids menu was made so that you could punch out eye and mouth holes to turn it into a mask of a tiger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo's
we had those in Seattle.
oh, and little Sambo was "pigmentaly challenged".
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - Racer X - 08-25-2006
[quote blusubaru]Cock of the Walk
http://www.cockofthewalk.biz/
Is that Bruce Dickinson's place?
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - morlock - 08-25-2006
[quote Racer X][quote blusubaru]Cock of the Walk
http://www.cockofthewalk.biz/
Is that Bruce Dickinson's place?
I don't think so, but I have run in to him at The Cock and Fiddle in Hollywood.
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - Jp! - 08-25-2006
Sambo's comeback?
http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/28/sambo.revival/
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - blusubaru - 08-25-2006
[quote morlock][quote Racer X]Is that Bruce Dickinson's place?
I don't think so, but I have run in to him at The Cock and Fiddle in Hollywood.
No idea, but I've been to CAT and the Fiddle in Hollywood....
Re: Wurst name for a restaurant ever? - Gutenberg - 08-25-2006
When I was in New York I worked around the corner from Ho Hum Chinese Carryout.
Back to the subject at hand, there's no mistaking the intent behind naming that restaurant. Somehow I don't think that the proprietors, even with the name change, are going to get much Jewish clientele.