Warning: not for vegetarians

Kumrucu

We got a delivery menu through the mail today for a local sandwich shop, which in itself isn’t so special (happens all the time), but check out their mascot/logo/whatever you want to call it: a photoshop of a literal deep-fried turtle sandwich (at least, one assumes it’s photoshopped). I had to laugh, because I’m pretty sure this is an image that would never, ever end up on menu in the United States (or do I have Romantic Memory Syndrome?). Anyway, I thought I’d share. Incidentally, we ordered some sandwiches from this place for lunch, and they were great. Nothing turtley about them. In fact, we were speculating as to why they’d choose a turtle for their logo, and we got nothin’. I thought maybe there was a Turkish play on words that I wasn’t getting, something about “turtle” and “sandwich” sounding alike in Turkish or something, but Emirhan says no, he can’t think of any language trick that would explain this. So there you go— the mysteries of life.

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  1. 23 June 2007
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    @Kristiano: Yeah, that’s what we said, yet we felt a strange compulsion to order. Maybe there’s something subliminal going on there.

  2. 23 June 2007
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    @Kristiano: Yeah, that’s what we said, yet we felt a strange compulsion to order. Maybe there’s something subliminal going on there.

  3. 23 June 2007
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    Maybe you should order the deepfried turtle sandwich from them and give us a report? Dunno, that’s what I’d be wondering about if I never tried it…

  4. 23 June 2007
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    Maybe you should order the deepfried turtle sandwich from them and give us a report? Dunno, that’s what I’d be wondering about if I never tried it…

  5. Vivian
    23 June 2007
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    I pray that that is a pure work of art from photoshop. I AM a vegetarian!!

  6. Vivian
    23 June 2007
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    I pray that that is a pure work of art from photoshop. I AM a vegetarian!!

  7. Jen Anderson
    23 June 2007
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    Eeeew. . . .no, that most CERTAINLY would not be on a US menu, I assure you. But hey, it DID get your attention, right? 😉

  8. Jen Anderson
    23 June 2007
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    Eeeew. . . .no, that most CERTAINLY would not be on a US menu, I assure you. But hey, it DID get your attention, right? 😉

  9. 26 June 2007
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    @teddlesruss: well, I don’t know about that, but their mixed toastie was pretty good.

  10. 26 June 2007
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    @teddlesruss: well, I don’t know about that, but their mixed toastie was pretty good.

  11. 26 June 2007
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    @Vivian: I’m sure it is – having said that, as a vegetarian would you be any less grossed out by something “normal” like a chicken sandwich?

  12. 26 June 2007
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    @Vivian: I’m sure it is – having said that, as a vegetarian would you be any less grossed out by something “normal” like a chicken sandwich?

  13. 26 June 2007
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    @Jen: that’s true, it did… and they have great food.

  14. 26 June 2007
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    @Jen: that’s true, it did… and they have great food.

  15. 26 June 2007
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    @bebang: yeah, I laughed at it, too. 🙂

  16. 26 June 2007
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    @bebang: yeah, I laughed at it, too. 🙂

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