Friday, August 31, 2007
HITLER PIZZA ?
The owners of a New Zealand restaurant chain have removed an image of Adolf Hitler from a pizza advert after complaints from Jewish customers.
The poster campaign for Hell Pizza had featured an image of the dictator with his arm outstretched in the Nazi salute while holding a slice of pizza.
The caption read: “It is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell” — a paraphrased quote attributed to Hitler.
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On this one I'm wholly in sympathy with the Jewish community's objection. How stupid and insensitive of the pizza company. How tasteless and tacky. They seem to think they have improved their image by changing Hitler to Benedict XVI with a tag line of “Hell is real and eternal.” That is supposed to sell pizza? If anyone really took it seriously, they would cancel the pizza order in order to fast!
