All I said to my wife was, “This ice cream was good enough for Allah”
various bloggers have been complaining about Burger King changing the label on it’s ice cream cones after a customer complained that image of the ice cream looked like the arabic word for Allah (and vowed to fight a “Jihad”).
But everyone commenting assumes that the ice cream label wasn’t intended to offend anyone’s religion, but is that really the case?
Here’s the offending ice cream:

And in a nightstudies exclusive, we’ve obtained a preview of the label that Burger King is going to replace it with:

And just so you can judge for yourself whether it was a coincidence here is a picture of a holy icon:

I think we’ve cleared that up.
April 27th, 2006 at 3:05 am
Funny, nobody ever mentions how much Allah’s name looks like an icecream cone…