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German 'Cannibal Restaurant': Flimé Site Causes Anger
Flimé: New Berlin 'Cannibal Restaurant' Claims to Serve 'Wari Cuisine'
An ad campaign from Flimé, an as-yet-unopened Berlin restaurant, is angering German politicians with what they say is a hoax: that Flimé will be a cannibal restaurant.
Flimé claims that it will serve "authentic Wari cuisine", referring to the Waricaca tribe of the Amazon, which engaged in ritual cannibalism. The German version of the site has a Jobs section, which advertises for "an open-minded surgeon".
On its website's "membership" page, you can download an "application": the page says, "After the medical check, you can decide which body part to donate!"
Echoes of Armin Miewes
The campaign is most likely referencing the case of Armin Miewes, who was jailed for cannibalism after eating the penis of Bernd Jürgen Brandes, who volunteered for the procedure. So far, several German politicians have gotten complaints from constituents, and felt compelled to speak publicly; none, though, are treating the Flimé ads as anything other than a hoax.
The claims of cannibalism seem a transparent marketing ploy ahead of the restaurant's opening at the beginning of September. In a conversation with SPIEGEL ONLINE, a restaurant spokesman insisted unconvincingly that the project was not a hoax.
Michael Braun, the vice-chairman of Berlin's Christian Democrat party, said he had received several protest emails calling for the restaurant to be banned. He had been unable to get to the bottom of who was behind what he said might be "a stunt".
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at 10:44 on August 26th, 2010
sounds fun...i wonder if that miewes dude already planned a visit...
at 15:05 on August 26th, 2010
bit.ly/b3uYRCPlease check it out (and use GoogleTranslator if needed) to see it's a coarse hoax.
at 03:32 on August 27th, 2010
False! This restaurant does not exist! Not in Brazil. I think its a marketing ploy (worst). It is forbidden to do this so as to rob or kill someone. This woman is an actress who has done some commercials for shampoo.
at 03:33 on August 27th, 2010
OMG, that is really funny. I am brazilian and can assure you: this is a great piece of indian marcketing, a stunt one xD. The sulth american natives are no long cannibals.
at 08:18 on August 27th, 2010
Restaurante com carne humana não existe e é boato, diz PFO delegado Julio Mitsuo Jujiki, da Polícia Federal em Rondônia, afirmou nesta sexta-feira que se trata de um boato a existência de um restaurante que serviria carne humana nas proximidades de Guajará-Mirim, a 320 km de Porto Velho. De acordo com o delegado, o restaurante não existe na cidade, e o contato divulgado pelo estabelecimento é da agência bancária do banco Bradesco do município. Além disso, o site é hospedado na Inglaterra, o que torna ainda mais suspeita a atividade do restaurante, segundo Mitsuo. "Estamos investigando para saber de onde partiu o boato, mas certamente se trata de rumores, brincadeira de internet", disse o delegado. O caso ganhou notoriedade na Europa na quinta-feira, depois que o jornal inglês The Guardian, a revista semanal alemã Der Spiegel e a agência EFE noticiaram a abertura de uma filial do restaurante em Berlim, capital da Alemanha. Chamado de Flimé, o restaurante teria como inspiração gastronômica o hábito canibal dos índios da etnia Wari.
at 17:59 on August 27th, 2010
Cannibal restaurant? I remember when I used to work security at a train station I used to tell this one girl that I was going to go to cooking school to learn how to cook anything, even especially her, all 5'1" of her. She was in film school and don't know/care what happened to her and she would laugh but maybe she was afraid of me. Look people, if humans were tasty there would less people running around. Movies like The Road glorify cannibalism and yeah right, in that scene where the hero finds out where the food is coming from there was a room of naked and bloody women, teens and old people. There were no black American or Armenian women (two of the most ornery womenfolk) in that room because then there wouldn't be any room with people for meat in that place! I like those gory sites like that Magu Kitchen or Dolcett comics because yeah right, some bimbo is going to sign a waiver for you to eat them for free and then you cook them: 1)alive 2)and that they still look good after you cooked them; LOL these people need to go to the sun and live there. Especially us Americans, we eat crap like bologna and hot dogs that there probably people in it and that's good eating! If cannibalism will start, Solyent Green would be closest to this horror reality!
at 18:00 on August 27th, 2010
BTW! I'm a guy! LYC!
at 22:18 on August 27th, 2010
Hahahahahah... excellent joke!!!