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Obama-Fingers Fried Chicken Tenders

By Alex in Food & Drinks, Pictures, Politics on Mar 16, 2009 at 2:44 am


Obamamania is a boon for businesses trying to cash in on the new President’s popularity – and while we opt to skip most of ‘em on Neatorama, I find this one fascinatingly irresistible to post: German frozen food company is marketing fried chicken tenders (with a tasty curry sauce) called "Obama Fingers."

Not wanting to miss the boat, a German food company has now gotten into the act. Sprehe, a company that has all manner of frozen delicacies on offer, has come up with a new product it calls "Obama Fingers." Far from being real digits, though, the "fingers" in question are "tender, juicy pieces of chicken breast, coated and fried," as the product packaging claims.

Fried chicken, in other words. With a curry dip.

"We noticed that American products and the American way of eating are trendy at the moment," Judith Witting, sales manager for Sprehe, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Americans are more relaxed. Not like us stiff Germans, like (Chancellor Angela) Merkel."

Charles Hawley of Spiegel Online has the story: Link – via Miss Cellania


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  1. T.Rex
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 4:14 am

    That actually sounds really delicious.

  2. Gauldar
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 8:07 am

    I wonder if they also come in coconut batter. If only they had started earlier they could manufactured Clinton's Cream of Mushroom soup.

  3. Frau
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Fried chicky fingers with curry dip? never.

    And in case I am not here to see the first response about what a racist product this is - I would like to insert a rolling eyes to that response here.

  4. secret asian man
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    Meat in curry sauce is a German obsession, not an American one ... how could this be "American"?

  5. Gail Pink
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Delicious!

  6. Johnny Cat
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Apparently they're going for the San Francisco-type American so meat mit curry gets a pass.

    @Gauldar: eww.

  7. Kalel
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Looks good, but four years of it?

  8. Dom Imus
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    That sho' look like white meat to me.

  9. SenorMysterioso
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    This is strange to me. I understand there is a cult of personality surrounding our president. I even get that American foods are trendy in Germany. The combination of those ideas is just weird.

  10. Gauldar
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    @SenorMysterioso

    If you think those are strange, you havn't seen these.

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/416705282_bdbe8feee1.jpg?v=0

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm

  11. Oomi
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/

  12. Jigore
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Black inspired fried chicken? Nothing wrong with that

  13. skidworth
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    hmmmm, mr. obama's popularity isn't very high here in my little neck of the redneck woods, along with about 49% of america. the network news won't tell you that!

  14. Gauldar
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    @Skidworth

    It didn't matter when Bush was down to 14%, he held on to the end... enjoy the year of Obama!

  15. Bret Hammond
    Mar 16th, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    Gauldar...heh...you said "Doody" :-P

  16. Well,
    Mar 17th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    No one cares about what stupid rednecks think, Skidworth

    Yee Haw

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