Argentine restaurant removes “Anne Frank” burger and “Adolf” fries from its menu
A restaurant in Argentina has removed an “Anne Frank” burger and “Adolf” fries from its menu following an outcry from the Jewish community.
Other items on the menu at Honky Donky, a fast-food restaurant in Buenos Aires, included “Benito”, “Gengis” and “Mao” fries, references to the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and the Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong.
The restaurant faced a backlash from the Jewish community in Rafaela, which announced its intention to pursue legal action.
The Rafaela Jewish Community posted on Facebook: “A fast-food place in our city, banally uses the names of Anne Frank and Adolf to identify their products, the Jewish Community of Rafaela expresses its most sense of repulsion and indignation, communicating that legal action will be taken corresponding to the fact in question.”
The group reportedly brought the issue to the restaurant’s owners earlier this year and was assured that the menu would be amended, only threatening legal action when the menu remained unchanged.
Honky Donky has subsequently changed the name of its “Anne Frank” burger to the “Anne Boleyn” burger and has removed the “Adolf” fries from its menu.
In a statement, the restaurant said: “From our gastronomic venture we apologise for the offence and the lack of sense of responsibility for the misuse of names that refer to open wounds in humanity as a whole,
“The public reach that the news has gained in recent hours encourages us to continue thinking about reinforcing our commitment to the values of defending human rights as unalterable principles for living in a just society and promoting a dignified life.
“Irony and cynicism do not fit when it comes to understanding that there are limits, that not everything is the same, and that the request for forgiveness must be accompanied by an amendment to heal the damage caused.”
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