How
would you like to bite into some crunchy potato chips, taken out from
a sachet, bearing a photo of Adolph Hitler or for that matter, bite
into some spicy nachos bearing photos of Kim Jong-un, Robert Mugabe
and Alexander Lukashenko, some of the ill famous dictators of our
times. Would you derive some kind of sadistic joy to crunch these
chips?
Perhaps
my Indian friends would certainly enjoy biting under their teeth,
crispy chips named after that cruel Mughal tyrant, Aurangzeb or
Perpetrator of Jalianwala baug massacre, General Dyer or may be my
friends from Pakistan, can get this pleasure by savouring salted
peanuts from a packet bearing image of their military dictator Zia.
The possibilities are endless, aren't they?
A
Dutch designer, Virginie Moerenhout has now come up with an art
project that features many of the world's dictators on packages of
potato chips. She is calling these chips as “Dictator Chips” and
the potato chips feature Kim Jong-un, Robert Mugabe and Alexander
Lukashenko, from North Korean, Zimbabwe and Belarus.
Late
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria's Bashar al-Assad also appear
on the packages. Virginie Moerenhout says that she wants to raise
the issue of hypocrisy of nations which champion democracy, but have
business links with regimes they often criticise. She adds further:
"If dictatorships are evil, then why do we do such good business
with them?"
I do
not know if news of these potato chip packets has reached North Korea
or Zimbabwe but it has definitely reached Belarus, whose leader
Lukashenko is often described as "Europe's last dictator."
“Charter 97” is an independent web site from this country. The
readers here have generally welcomed the idea. Here are some of the
comments.
"will
choose again - and forever!" (The
potato chips) "Warning:
Do not choose dictators for President." This is not a chewing
chip!
They
are magical, tastefully vomiting.
For
the toilet bowl with a portrait at the bottom LUKADZENKA!
Potato
chips - the strongest carcinogen (with all the benefits of potatoes),
and a silly dictator – twice.
Well
at least not condoms!
Scarecrow
collective. Belarus had disgraced himself with it on the whole world.
We
are ashamed for Sasha (Alexander
Lukashenko ).
Tomorrow
trip to Holland. I will look for the right chypsy
Special
chips: the image on the packaging helps reduce appetite causes
diarrhea and vomiting.
Many
commentators have suggested that these images also could be printed
on consumer products such as voodoo dolls, doormats, ashtrays and
toilet paper.
The
idea is really good, every country has its own black sheep and it
would be good idea to come up with XXX Bhujia or YYY peanuts in
India. (HaHa)
26
September 2013
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