Hitler’s Cross eatery renamed after protests

A restaurant named after Adolf Hitler that enraged Mumbai’s Jewish community will soon have a new monicker, its owner promised Thursday.

Puneet Sablok said he would remove Hitler’s name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the eatery’s menu since it had angered so many people. He had previously said the name and symbols were only meant to attract attention.

“Yes, I have decided to change the name. I never wanted to hurt people’s feelings,” said Sablok, who made the decision after meeting with members from Mumbai’s small Jewish community. He did not say what the new name would be.

“Once they told me how upset they were with the name, I decided to change it. I never wanted to create this controversy or hurt people with this name,” said Sablok. “I don’t want to do business by hurting people.”

Hitler’s Cross opened five days ago and serves pizza, salad and pastries.

Mumbai’s Jews had called the theme of the restaurant offensive, and demanded a name change. There are about 5,500 Jews in India, with about 4,500 of them living in Mumbai.

On Thursday, Mumbai’s Jewish community welcomed Sablok’s decision. “He realized he made a mistake and listened to reason,” said Elijah Jacob, a community leader. “Some people have wrong conceptions of history and he realized it was not appropriate.”

So the hotel owner finally obliged. Here is one interesting line from the report above Some Indians regard Hitler as just another historical figure and have little knowledge about the Holocaust. Might be true but really shocking to know that Indians are ignorant of one of the greatest butchers of all times. And i wonder what the restaurant owner intended to achieve by Hitler theme. So how will the menu look like

1.) Holocausted chicken

2.) Chicken TANKri.

3.) CONCENTRATED vegetable

4.) Special soup with Hitler’s moustache hair as add-on.

And the end of the menu card would read “Please multiply the charges by 3 if you are a Jew and divide my 3 if your forefather had any remotest association with the Nazi party.”

It seems Israel was really pissed off at this trifle issue.

Germany and Israel joined the protests with the Israeli consul-general in Mumbai writing to city authorities urging them to take steps to get the restaurant’s name changed.

I wonder if Hamas or the Hizbollah were renamed as Hitlermas and Hitlerbollah then perhaps Israel would nuke them.