Rasranjan’s
We spent most of our time in Ahmedabad in what might be called a “slum ghetto,” but everyone always talks about what a wealthy city it is. So, to see the other side of life in Ahmedabad, we visited the famous Rasranjan restaurant.
This popular place serves traditional Indian street foods in a modern, McDonald’s-like environment.
The food was great - and it didn’t make us sick like real street food is likely to do in India - but there was something a little strange about the place. It wasn’t the Santa, although he was a little scary if you ask me.
Nor was it the “American Vegetable Chopsey” which was quite tasty despite the name.
No, it was the ice cream desert named “Hitlers Sundae”!
When Shashwati asked why they called it that the manager responded that it was because “it is so dark with Chocolate.” The logic of this is completely beyond me, but there you have it. It reminds me of when I was in Taiwan and some company used a little cartoon Hitler to advertise electric heaters. It didn’t take long, after it was reported in the press, for the German manufacturer to demand that they use a less offensive mascot.
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offices. I immediately implement a three-slice-per-day programme and tip off John, the sole, active vegan in my fellowship. He joins in a similarly indulgent dietary regimen after drilling the cashier and bakers at Rasranjan for his own peace of mind (and piece of cake). “No, no. No milk. No cream.” “Ghee?” “No. No ghee.” “Butter?” “No butter.” “Nothing that comes from a cow?” John mimes a milking motion. “No. No.”
[…] A year and a half ago I wrote about being weirded out by the name of a dish at a restaurant in an upscale neighborhood in Ahmedabad. I later learned that less than a year before that the government of Gujarat had produced a textbook which had chapters titled “‘Hitler, the Supremo‘ and ‘Internal Achievements of Nazism’,” painting an remarkably uncritical picture of Nazism. Now, this past week, a restaurant in Bombay changed its name from “Hitler’s Cross Cafe” to “The Cross Cafe” only after protests by Bombay’s Jewish community. […]
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“It didn’t take long, after it was reported in the press, for the German manufacturer to demand that they use a less offensive mascot.”
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