In the underrated You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, John Turturro’s character retires from battling the Israelis to open a chain of shawarma restaurants called Muchentuchen. Yesterday, Hugo Chavez opened a shawarma restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon:
The restaurant, it seems, is quite patriotic indeed — decorated with flags and pictures of the Venezuelan president and, nearby as the press release from the Embassy put it (my translation), “instructions of our head of state relating to the fight for the sovereignty of the oppressed people of the world against the pretensions of potential imperialists.”
What atmosphere! Add the waiters’ red shirts and hats, clothes traditional to Venezuela, and you’ve go the whole deal.