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September 17, 2005

Castro kitsch

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Val Prieto, at Babalublog, has some fun at the expense of a restaurant in Minneapolis which serves "revolutionary Cuban cuisine" amidst portraits of Che and Fidel.

Val writes what getting a real meal is like in Havana, and he asks if that is what this guy is serving. He also asks if the restaurant accepts Castro's toilet paper money or hard dollars. It's a masterpiece of debunking. He floors the guy in that magnificent storytelling way that only he can.

Revolutionary Cuban cooking!? I wonder if the maitre'd hands everyone a ration card