Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53847,00.html" target="_blank">Arafat Potato Chips Take Egyptian Market by Storm</a>
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
CAIRO, Egypt - Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips - five cents a bag.
[quote]Vendors report brisk sales of the new product. The maker of the chips says it donates five cents - 25 pisaters - to the "Palestinian cause" for every 50 packages sold.
The chips are bagged in Palestinian colors - green, red, black and white - and carry the likeness of a rotund and wide-eyed Arafat, saluting with one hand and holding a Palestinian flag in the other. He's dressed in his trademark military fatigues and black-and-white checked headgear.
Shopkeepers say the Arafat chips, named Abu Ammar - the Palestinian leader's nom de guerre, are considerably outselling another new brand, The Hero, which hit store shelves earlier this month. The packaging for that brand pictures a schoolboy holding a stone in his right hand and books in the other as he confronts an Israeli tank.
"There's no one who doesn't love Abu Ammar," said Iman Mohammed Darwish, a 12-year-old girl. "I like the taste, and I want to help the Palestinians."
"I sell at least three boxes (150 bags) of Abu Ammar daily," said Fatma Abdel-Ghani, a shopkeeper in the Cairo suburb of Thakanat Al-Maadi as she carefully placed boxes of Abu Ammar above those containing The Hero and other brands of chips...<hr></blockquote>
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
CAIRO, Egypt - Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips - five cents a bag.
[quote]Vendors report brisk sales of the new product. The maker of the chips says it donates five cents - 25 pisaters - to the "Palestinian cause" for every 50 packages sold.
The chips are bagged in Palestinian colors - green, red, black and white - and carry the likeness of a rotund and wide-eyed Arafat, saluting with one hand and holding a Palestinian flag in the other. He's dressed in his trademark military fatigues and black-and-white checked headgear.
Shopkeepers say the Arafat chips, named Abu Ammar - the Palestinian leader's nom de guerre, are considerably outselling another new brand, The Hero, which hit store shelves earlier this month. The packaging for that brand pictures a schoolboy holding a stone in his right hand and books in the other as he confronts an Israeli tank.
"There's no one who doesn't love Abu Ammar," said Iman Mohammed Darwish, a 12-year-old girl. "I like the taste, and I want to help the Palestinians."
"I sell at least three boxes (150 bags) of Abu Ammar daily," said Fatma Abdel-Ghani, a shopkeeper in the Cairo suburb of Thakanat Al-Maadi as she carefully placed boxes of Abu Ammar above those containing The Hero and other brands of chips...<hr></blockquote>
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You postedx the same thing over at MacNN. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yep.
[quote]<strong>You're just begging for attention from people who will sit and type at you and not want to talk to you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, seeing as how I posted without making any comments of my own I?m not sure I was looking for either kind of attention.
I say let them eat potato chips. As long as they're not blowing us up.
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