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I have a ridiculously dark and morbid sense of humor, and all I can say is, wow, how inappropriate. I could get behind the idea of the dinner and the menu, but that picture...seriously? I can't wait to see what they have planned for Pol Pot's birthday.

I thought we Americans had the corner on being crass and socially inept.

Shhhhhh! Beeeee quiet.
Ex-president Bush and his buddy Chaney don't want you to attend.

You're not allowed to question or talk about it. You may be charged for inquiring.

Sincerely,
Concerned non-american

If you click on the blogspot link at the bottom of the article, it takes you to the 9/11 dinner article.

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From that site:

"Notes on the forthcoming menu...

Cocktail with colloidal silver

Mini home baked poppy seed bagels with lox and cream cheese

Caesar salad

Mac and cheese (Macaroni Cheese) baked in the Aga

White Chocolate brownie with pink peppercorns and monatomic gold

Coffee

This menu (subject to change) represents both typically New York food and elements of mysticism and mystery, so beloved of the conspiracy theorists with regard to this historic event."

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The food doesn't sound particularly mysterious to me. At any rate, my sense of humor is quite dark as well, and I find this just tacky.

I don't really want to get into the tackiness or non-tackiness of the theme but that is a really terrible, boring-sounding menu.

All I can say is: What a bunch of douche bags.....

hungrychristel, you're included in that bunch.

thank god, more pampered, "anarcho," hipsters being crass about tragic deaths and calling people fascists when they speak out against it. It must be very nice to sit on your throne of smugness and look down on everyone because they find your exploitation of the deaths of other people's family members as the basis for an exceptionally uninspired menu to be offensive.

As someone who sits as far to the opposite end of the playing field as bush and cheney, loathes the kind of cut throat capitalism that occurred at the WTC, and has an appreciation for offensive humor, even I find this in poor taste.

And incidentally, douche bag is, in fact, two words. Although I'm sure in your world urban dictionary is an extremely reliable and creditable source for being rude on the internet.

Insofar as the food goes I don't really see the point of the menu either, the only thing that is, "typically New York," about that menu is the lox and cream cheese, the rest could be found commonly anywhere in the states.

It would have been good if some of your readers had actually read my post on this subject. If you have read it and still take offence then I apologize.
No disrespect is intended.
My cousin was heavily involved with the rescue effort on 9/11.
I happened to be opening up again on this date, and I feel it would have been more disrespectful to ignore the significance of the date.
My menu is guided by the fact that I am cooking for a large amount of people on an Aga, which favours slow cooking methods.
I discussed the menu with a New Yorker. She suggested the dishes.
I'm also a non meat eater which was a factor.
Americans might do well to remember that we have suffered an enormous amount of terrorism in Britain.
I do know an awful lot of people who are cynical about the official story of 9/11 and I also wanted to acknowledge that.

An Aga is a cast iron oven that is on all the time.
The picture, yes I see what you mean, but apparently the guy was actually jumping from the restaurant Windows on the World so is sickeningly appropriate.
Never forget.

Personally it made me just want to weep. What if that poor man was your friend, husband, or father? How would that make you feel? Certainly not like eating a bagel.

@msmarmitelover
You thought it would be more disrespectful to ignore 9/11 than to exploit the most horrific terrorist attack on U.S soil for your own perverse benefit? I read your post and I'm still gobsmacked that you claim, in the same breath, to be honoring the memory of those who were murdered while making snarky references to crack-pot conspiracy theorists.
And could you possibly be any more condescending with "Americans might do well to remember that we have suffered an enormous amount of terrorism in Britain." WE ARE AWARE. Will you feel better about our criticism if a restaurant in NYC has a "London Bombing Buffet" with fish & chip subs? Pretty repugnant right? But it's okay, I'm being ironic and referential and the British might do well to remember that Americans have suffered too, so we shouldn't be held accountable for being repulsive for profit and attention.
9/11 is still very present to many Americans. I don't mean to be so heated, especially on such a website, but this really takes the cake. One of my close friends lost his father when the South Tower collapsed. And every on 9/11 we all try to hang out with him and make the day as easy for him as possible. So your sickeningly inappropriate meal strikes a pretty damn big chord with me. And probably for any American who watched the live feed of people throwing themselves to their deaths. You must be out of your mind.

Vicious comments really. Completely over the top.
I suppose you felt that way about the writer Tom Junod writing about this image.
This image is iconic. Horrible. Of course I am aware of this man's terrible choice.
What about famous photographs of other wars?
And actually many Americans have celebrated British civilian deaths as a result of terrorism, when they contributed to Noraid.
In fact the only good thing to come out of 9/11 is that now Americans are aware of what it feels like to have civilians targetted in a guerrilla war.
Perhaps the only other good thing to come out of it is that people everywhere are a lot less trusting in the establishment.

I think this may be cultural. Many Americans, including myself, have not seen that picture because the press as a whole have refrained from printing graphic photos as far back as I can remember. If you didn't see this on the day it occurred, it is unlikely you saw it printed later in the mainstream press. The press in other countries I have visited (including England) do not have such sensitivity towards victims and their families. Therefore, more people outside of the US have seen this picture and consider it "iconic," than those living here. It is shocking to see it for the first time in this context.