Comments on: Bad seeds

By: Alla Gelman

Alla Gelman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:36:15 +0000

The word on the right side of the package ВЕЗДЕПЛЮЙКА suggests a person who spits everywhere, meaning unclean dirty person. I wonder if it’s possible to bring charges against Moscow Kremlin Kitchen company and american distributor AHT who is owned by ethnic russians.

By: Alla Gelman

Alla Gelman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:09:53 +0000

This sunflower seeds package was produced in Moscow by the company Kremlin Kitchen (letter M on top means Moscow, KK is for Kremlin Kitchen)
This package has nothing to do with jews or Israel.
Portraying a typical jew on the package is shameful and should be exposed like such!

By: Andrew Silow-Carroll

Andrew Silow-Carroll — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:56:15 +0000

The left side does seem to say “Shalom from Israel.” (Шалом из Израиля)The right side also contains the word spit (везде). (I used Google Translation.)

Is it possible — and how’s this for “judging to the side of merit” — that whoever packaged this considers Israeli-made seeds a selling point, and tried to find an illustration that proclaimed “Israeli” or “Jewish”? You know — the same we we use an awful Irish caricature for Lucky Charms or Aunt Jemima for pancakes. That doesn’t make it any less anti-Semitic in the end, but the intent is a little more benign.

By: joel katz

joel katz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:38:40 +0000

russian writing says “spit them out” “from israel”

By: Steve Talmud

Steve Talmud — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:31:21 +0000

A friend of mine says: “The left side says “Shalom from Israel.” As for the right side, this may be an idiom I’m not familiar with but the literal translation is “spit everywhere” (i.e. – the shells from the seeds?)”