Pour Some Hitler On Me!
It turns out the sugar packets of choice in Croatia’s coffee houses these days tend to have pictures of Hitler on them. Why the image of Hitler on something so sweet you might ask?
Between 1941 and 1945 when the Croats were not busy being willing enforcers of Nazi ethnic laws, in which they killed thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, they were enjoying a public honeymoon with their “Zasladiti Uvodni” (Sugar Führer).
Hitler first ingratiated himself to the Croatian people upon his 1942 visit to
It was after these and countless other Hitler with sweets occurrences in the news that many Croat marketing firms began associating their products with famous Nazi figures in an effort to establish a bit of lebensraum in a crowded candy marketplace. There was Adolph Eichmann’s Ice-cream sandwiches, Goebbels Gumballs, and Heinrich Himmler’s Homemade Ham Glaze (Hitler himself never endorsed any Croatian candies) . It is still true today that
Although Croatia has come a long way from it’s dark days of the early 40’s where the Ustasha gladly did the Nazi’s bidding, it may be some time before you can enjoy a cup of joe in Croatia without seeing the face of history’s most brutal dictator.
3 comments:
I'm glad we decided to hire Fatty on even though he has a thing for hookers.
He gives us an air of respectability... well aside from the hooker thing
Mr. Stupidneck hookers are now socially accpetable. It's time you start living in the twenty first century.
I just read this post again, and you know what? This is a pretty good little post. I don't think I got the proper credit I deserve on this thing.
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