Bobby Sands Burger

Atoms for Peace

"Calling a burger joint in uptown Tehran "Bobby Sands," after an IRA hunger striker, might seem a little tasteless. But in Iran they take martyrdom very seriously, so paying homage to a man who died on a hunger strike by plastering his face across a greasy takeaway isn't completely out of place."
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/bobby-sands-burgers-tehran-545

Posted this on another thread but surely its more than disserving of its own thread.

munster87

Do they do Bobby Sandwiches too?

The_Valeyard

Pretty sure it's on the same street Of The British embassy to piss them off

me_irl

I bet it tastes like sh*t.

fatknacker

Anyone remember the "Hunger Strikes" Shreddies ad?
With a cartoon monster banging spoons on a starving Irish kid's stomach.

Felix Jones is God

It's probably got fck all meat in it

Should perhaps call it a lesbian burger ?

Stheno

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Tehran+Province,+Tehran,+Bobby+Sands+St,+Iran/@35.6967238,51.4149517,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3f8e019c686be037:0xc589e0dfa945352f!8m2!3d35.6967238!4d51.4171404?hl=en

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/britain-to-reopen-embassy-in-iran-on-bobby-sands-street-31466117.html

There is a street named after him in Tehran.

Ironically the British Embassy is based there.

Felix Jones is God

Stheno wrote: »

https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Tehran+Province,+Tehran,+Bobby+Sands+St,+Iran/@35.6967238,51.4149517,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3f8e019c686be037:0xc589e0dfa945352f!8m2!3d35.6967238!4d51.4171404?hl=en

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/britain-to-reopen-embassy-in-iran-on-bobby-sands-street-31466117.html

There is a street named after him in Tehran.

Ironically the British Embassy is based there.

OP linked that .

FTA69

I was actually there in February, your man who owns it runs it with his wife and he's opening another one soon. In the city centre there is also Bobby Sands St (written Babisandz) on which you can find the heavily fortified British embassy. The guards there wouldn't let me take a photo of it until after a load of pleading they let me have one on condition the embassy wasn't in the shot and one of the soldiers took the photo.

Bobby Sands burger was delicious by the way and hit the spot after a feed of illicit drink I'd been throwing into myself all day. He's probably the most famous Irishman in Iran; the concept of martyrdom is huge in Shiia Islam and the Hunger Strike had a lot of resonance in Iran.

osarusan

Stheno wrote: »

There is a street named after him in Tehran.

Ironically the British Embassy is based there.

British Embassy is built on the block between that street and some other street - they had to knock a hole in the wall and create a new entrance on the other street to avoid their address including Bobby Sands street.

Stheno

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

OP linked that .

I think it's more topical that the embassy is there

Bobby would be turning in his grave.

FTA69

The burger bar is yonks away from Bobby Sands St, took us a 45 minute drive to get there but then again Tehran is a f*cking massive ugly city so god knows where we were going.

OldMrBrennan83

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cml387

Patww79 wrote: »

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For a Bobby Sands burger of course.

FTA69

Patww79 wrote: »

Who the **** would voluntarily go to Tehran?

Iran is a beautiful, amazing country. I'd advise anyone to go. The government and political/religious system is rubbish but the people there are ridiculously friendly and often highly knowledgeable and educated and open minded. Some of the historical sites and scenery are breathtaking.

Felix Jones is God

Stheno wrote: »

I think it's more topical that the embassy is there

Bobby would be turning in his grave.

He'd be throwing poo at his coffin walls anyways

Stheno

Patww79 wrote: »

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FTA69 wrote: »

Iran is a beautiful, amazing country. I'd advise anyone to go. The government and political/religious system is rubbish but the people there are ridiculously friendly and often highly knowledgeable and educated and open minded. Some of the historical sites and scenery are breathtaking.

Yup anyone I know whose been to Iran loves it as a country, all blokes though

cml387

By the way the British Embassy is on Ferdowsi Avenue.
Just sayin'

Exeggcute

Iran is an amazing country.

It is not the dusty war-torn desert that a lot of people seem to think it is.

Indeed parts of the country more closely resemble countryside here in Ireland believe it or not.

learn_more

Bobby is now sand.

frozenfrozen

since watching this I would like to go to iran, looks great to travel around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc

The_Valeyard

I really enjoyed Tehran in Battlefield 3

martinedwards

I used to work with Bobby Sands' son.

In one of life's great ironies he is a superb chef.

ancapailldorcha

FTA69 wrote: »

Iran is a beautiful, amazing country. I'd advise anyone to go. The government and political/religious system is rubbish but the people there are ridiculously friendly and often highly knowledgeable and educated and open minded. Some of the historical sites and scenery are breathtaking.

Seriously? My boss was there but he then had to go through a pile of BS with the US Embassy to explain himself as you get disqualified from entering the US if you've been.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Seriously? My boss was there but he then had to go through a pile of BS with the US Embassy to explain himself as you get disqualified from entering the US if you've been.

I thought it was just disqualified from the visa-waiver program?

Exeggcute

cml387 wrote: »

By the way the British Embassy is on Ferdowsi Avenue.
Just sayin'

That's because they got pissed off, bricked up the entrance on Bobby Sands street and put the entrance at the other side of the building.

getzls

A slimming shop would have been more appropriate surely.

Riddle101

Kind've ironic that there is a fast food joint named after a hunger striker? I mean what better way to remember the guy than with food.

Grayson

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

"Calling a burger joint in uptown Tehran "Bobby Sands," after an IRA hunger striker, might seem a little tasteless. But in Iran they take martyrdom very seriously, so paying homage to a man who died on a hunger strike by plastering his face across a greasy takeaway isn't completely out of place."
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/bobby-sands-burgers-tehran-545

Posted this on another thread but surely its more than disserving of its own thread.

want to rephrase that?

FTA69

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Seriously? My boss was there but he then had to go through a pile of BS with the US Embassy to explain himself as you get disqualified from entering the US if you've been.

Honestly, it was amazing - one of the best trips I've ever been on. I'd love to go back. Places like Persepolis, Shiraz, Esfahan and Yazd are mental like. Every day was a joy and in two weeks I was skiing in snow mountains, baking in the desert and wandering around green hillsides.

Obviously as a man I can't say what it would be like for women but I did meet a young blonde Russian woman on her own who was having the time of her life and met loads of solo female travellers who had no hassle. As someone who has been around that area I'd nearly say it's the easiest country in the Middle East to be a lone woman traveller.

As for the US, you get excluded from the waiver. For instance now I'd have to pay $160 and do an interview in the embassy. My passport is a horror for the US unfortunately, bloody evidence of Palestinian Authority, Algeria, Lebanon, Cuba and the rest. Realistically I'll have to wait for a new passport before even bothering I'd say.

maryishere

FTA69 wrote: »

I was actually there in February, your man who owns it runs it with his wife and he's opening another one soon.

He could open a chain and name some of them after some of the IRA men who died on hunger strike in Irish prison here in Ireland under DeValera, just to keep things balanced, like. Did you realise between 1939 and 1945 six IRA men were executed by the Irish State here, for example Charlie Kerins, chief of staff of the IRA.

ancapailldorcha

FTA69 wrote: »

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Seriously? My boss was there but he then had to go through a pile of BS with the US Embassy to explain himself as you get disqualified from entering the US if you've been.

Honestly, it was amazing - one of the best trips I've ever been on. I'd love to go back. Places like Persepolis, Shiraz, Esfahan and Yazd are mental like. Every day was a joy and in two weeks I was skiing in snow mountains, baking in the desert and wandering around green hillsides.

Obviously as a man I can't say what it would be like for women but I did meet a young blonde Russian woman on her own who was having the time of her life and met loads of solo female travellers who had no hassle. As someone who has been around that area I'd nearly say it's the easiest country in the Middle East to be a lone woman traveller.

As for the US, you get excluded from the waiver. For instance now I'd have to pay $160 and do an interview in the embassy. My passport is a horror for the US unfortunately, bloody evidence of Palestinian Authority, Algeria, Lebanon, Cuba and the rest. Realistically I'll have to wait for a new passport before even bothering I'd say.

Nice! My boss painted a nice picture of it. The process for getting onto the waiver program at the US embassy, not so much.

GBX

Always been a place I want to visit. Now the burger would be an added bonus

FTA69

maryishere wrote: »

He could open a chain and name some of them after some of the IRA men who died on hunger strike in Irish prison here in Ireland under DeValera, just to keep things balanced, like. Did you realise between 1939 and 1945 six IRA men were executed by the Irish State here, for example Charlie Kerins, chief of staff of the IRA.

Yep, along with people like George Plant and hunger strikers like Sean McCaughey.

Dare I say it Mary I'm probably more familiar with the intricacies of Republican history than you are. What's your point exactly?

Gaz

Took this photo of the street sign after getting permission from the patrolling soldiers. This was back in 2007, I think this particular sign is gone now though.

And couldnt agree more on the previous comments, amazing country and people.



bobby.jpg

maryishere

FTA69 wrote: »

Yep, along with people like George Plant and hunger strikers like Sean McCaughey.

Dare I say it Mary I'm probably more familiar with the intricacies of Republican history than you are.

It is very possible and no doubt you are.

FTA69 wrote: »

What's your point exactly?

People are very familiar with Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike under Thatchers regime, but the cases of IRA hunger strikers who died in jail here south of the border are not so well publicised. Kids in school, for example know about Bobby Sands but not so likely to learn of other IRA hunger strikers who for example died in this state. Perhaps to redress the balance the next burger joint could be named after another hunger striker, one who died under DeValera? Or else name it after a victim of the army of the hunger strikers ( perhaps a child blown up by an IRA bomb) , if as you say " your man who owns it runs it with his wife and he's opening another one soon".

biko

Bobby Sands burger song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NXdj3MaFk

Jayop

Mary just can't help but get that boring agenda in as much as possible.

FTA69

maryishere wrote: »

It is very possible and no doubt you are.



People are very familiar with Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike under Thatchers regime, but the cases of IRA hunger strikers who died in jail here south of the border are not so well publicised. Kids in school, for example know about Bobby Sands but not so likely to learn of other IRA hunger strikers who for example died in this state. Perhaps to redress the balance the next burger joint could be named after another hunger striker, one who died under DeValera? Or else name it after a victim of the army of the hunger strikers ( perhaps a child blown up by an IRA bomb) , if as you say " yhour man who owns it runs it with his wife and he's opening another one soon".

Pop over and tell him yourself altogether. Tell him I sent you and you might get a few chicken wings.

dm09

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Seriously? My boss was there but he then had to go through a pile of BS with the US Embassy to explain himself as you get disqualified from entering the US if you've been.

I have been to Tehran twice for work in 2012 and 2014, the rule excluding you from US Visa Waiver was only introduced in Jan 2015 as a backlash to the deal Obama Administration signed .
I went to the US embassy but it was a very straight forward formality, I now have a B1 visa which covers for 10yrs and i no longer need to apply for ESTA and crossing the US border is actually more straight forward - i know longer need to provide my finger and thumb prints because I'm in the 'System'

I would also echo the above posters sentiment, its a fascinating country and the people are friendly , very hospitable and welcoming. Some stunning scenery too

Hector Bellend

Bobby McSands

The_Kew_Tour

Patww79 wrote: »

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Proably one of the best countries I have ever been and I have travelled to 80-90

Honestly its got some amazing spots

The_Kew_Tour

biko wrote: »

Bobby Sands burger song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NXdj3MaFk

Wil you have a Chicken Super Bobby Sands from Rangers to Celtic fans is still one of funniest chants I have heard

OldMrBrennan83

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ancapailldorcha

dm09 wrote: »

I have been to Tehran twice for work in 2012 and 2014, the rule excluding you from US Visa Waiver was only introduced in Jan 2015 as a backlash to the deal Obama Administration signed .
I went to the US embassy but it was a very straight forward formality, I now have a B1 visa which covers for 10yrs and i no longer need to apply for ESTA and crossing the US border is actually more straight forward - i know longer need to provide my finger and thumb prints because I'm in the 'System'

I would also echo the above posters sentiment, its a fascinating country and the people are friendly , very hospitable and welcoming. Some stunning scenery too

Oooh. Was thinking of going to India this year but might reconsider. 2 week job you think?

Gaz

Give it 3 weeks if you can ... there is so much to see and do.
I made it a little more interesting and got the train all the way from London to Tehran.

Fred Swanson

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Sue Pa Key Pa

me_irl wrote: »

I bet it tastes like sh*t.

That's an awful smear

dm09

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Oooh. Was thinking of going to India this year but might reconsider. 2 week job you think?

2 Weeks would be a decent trip, its also a lot easier to get into Tehran since since the sanctions have been eased last year with a lot more airlines flying from Europe - BA, KLM , Air France, Lufthansa, Alitalia. The visa process is also quite straight forward, they have an embassy in Blackrock - Visa on arrival might also be a possibility for tourism.
Whatever of the politics of the government, its a fascinating country - almost feels like its in a time warp with a lot of vintage cars pre revolution (kind of like Cuba) and they've over 20 Unesco World Heritage sites