{"id":11497,"date":"2013-11-04T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:28:17","slug":"swedish-restaurant-charged-for-serving-racist-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11497","title":{"rendered":"Swedish restaurant charged for serving &#8216;racist soup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/racist_soup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11501\" alt=\"racist_soup\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/racist_soup-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/racist_soup-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/racist_soup.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A restaurant in Sweden has been reported to the police for racism after calling one of its dishes &#8220;Gypsy Soup&#8221;, claiming as a joke that all the ingredients were stolen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prank was the idea of the Lundav\u00e4gens Grill restaurant, in Malmo, southern Sweden. It&#8217;s daily menu offered a &#8220;zigenarsoppa&#8221;, stating in brackets that it had got its name only because everything in it was a result of robbery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But one female diner failed to get the joke and reported the grill&#8217;s owner to police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is not acceptable. Veiled racism in Malm\u00f6 is dangerous,&#8221; she\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20131030\/restaurant-offers-gypsy-soup-with-stolen-ingredients\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a>\u00a0Sweden&#8217;s Metro newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apologetic restaurant owner Slavko Rasic said he had not meant to offend, but accepted that some people might find it upsetting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll take it like a man,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I am specifically pointing the finger at any race when I call it &#8216;gypsy soup&#8217;,&#8221; he added before claiming the whole thing was a private joke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rasic also said that he could have called the dish &#8220;Elvis soup&#8221;, as his choice of name was nothing more than a word.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It would be a different story if the soup was disgusting,&#8221; he added. New York Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A restaurant in Sweden has been reported to the police for racism after calling one of its dishes &#8220;Gypsy Soup&#8221;, claiming as a joke that all the ingredients were stolen. The prank was the idea of the Lundav\u00e4gens Grill restaurant, in Malmo, southern Sweden. It&#8217;s daily menu offered a &#8220;zigenarsoppa&#8221;, stating in brackets that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swedish restaurant charged for serving &#8216;racist soup&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[7272,7273,65,157,7271,185],"class_list":["post-11497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-lundavagens-grill","tag-malmo","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-racist-soup","tag-sweden"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/racist_soup.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11503,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497\/revisions\/11503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}