I stole the title of my post right from the Spiegel Online article explaining the latest frozen snack available here in Deutschland…

A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.  —Charles Hawley, Spiegel Online

I am vaguely insulted by how little market research they bothered to do before sending this product to the shelves.  I am also a little grossed out imagining Obama’s fingers in a box in the frozen food aisle.  And lastly, is that the Golden Gate bridge in the background?  Because San Francisco + Obama = frozen fried chicken?

I mean,  I’m glad that Germans like Obama and want to pay “homage to the American lifestyle and the new US president” — as the company’s spokesperson is quoted as saying — but this might be taking it a tad too far, don’t you think?

Anyway.  See what other expat bloggers are saying about it over at Die Zwei Luftmenschen,   Heidelbergerin, and Letters Home.