Bobby Sands Burger

Atoms for Peace · 17-01-2017 10:01PM #1

"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 · 17-01-2017 10:06PM

Do they do Bobby Sandwiches too?

The_Valeyard · 17-01-2017 10:29PM

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

me_irl · 17-01-2017 10:30PM

I bet it tastes like sh*t.

fatknacker · 17-01-2017 10:31PM

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

Felix Jones is God · 17-01-2017 10:32PM

It's probably got fck all meat in it

Should perhaps call it a lesbian burger ?

Stheno · 17-01-2017 10:37PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:39PM

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

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FTA69 · 17-01-2017 10:39PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:39PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:40PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:42PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:45PM

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cml387 · 17-01-2017 10:47PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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For a Bobby Sands burger of course.

FTA69 · 17-01-2017 10:48PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:52PM

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 · 17-01-2017 10:58PM

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 · 17-01-2017 11:02PM

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

Exeggcute · 17-01-2017 11:04PM

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 · 17-01-2017 11:09PM

Bobby is now sand.

frozenfrozen · 17-01-2017 11:13PM

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

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

The_Valeyard · 17-01-2017 11:13PM

I really enjoyed Tehran in Battlefield 3

martinedwards · 17-01-2017 11:20PM

I used to work with Bobby Sands' son.

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

ancapailldorcha · 18-01-2017 12:04AM

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 · 18-01-2017 12:18AM

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 · 18-01-2017 12:32AM

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 · 18-01-2017 03:36AM

A slimming shop would have been more appropriate surely.

Riddle101 · 18-01-2017 04:16AM

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 · 18-01-2017 04:37AM

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 · 18-01-2017 09:11AM

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 · 18-01-2017 10:39AM

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.

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