Imbrium's Virtual Journal

This being a journal of my random thoughts and musings.

Name: Deborah

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Freedom pastries!

A friend of mine mentioned an amusing tidbit regarding the furor over the Danish cartoons. It seems they have the Danish (the pastry kind) in Iran. I found that rather surprising, nasty, gooey things that they are (the pastries, that is, not the Iranians or Danes). That they�re also called Danishes in Iran amused me even more (perhaps the concept was imported from the US during friendlier times? I don�t know that they�re called Danishes anywhere but the US and, it turns out, Iran). So�Iran is now planning to officially rename the Danish. Freedom pastries! Nah, not really, but their suggestion is just as foolish. They want to rename Danishes after some sort of flower called a �Mohamadi.� That sounds pretty enough and relatively benign, but heavy handed social dictates are rarely effective. Does anyone say "freedom fries" except as a joke?