Shoney's Commemorates 9-11 With Free Bowl Of Soup
To the fallen, the office workers, the families; to the firemen, the first responders, the workers; to the the hole in the ground, the empty space in the sky, to the the gray miasma—here's a free bowl of soup. Thanks Shoney's. I can't tell whether that's incredibly tacky or deeply poetic. Either way, it's free soup.
(Photo: samwilkinson.org) Note: The post originally credited Econolodge, but after speaking with the photographer more, we think it was actually Shoney's, billed above on the same sign, dispensing the free soup. The picture was taken in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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@Triterion: Or freedom pie. Only filling from apples in the US.
/kidding. I don't think freedom pies every existed.
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I think Olbermann is arrogant, but he's right. 9/11 is a trademark, its a "brand" now- something that is managed and promoted, used offensively or defensively like any other brand.
@Rolcol: Why???
@Gstein: I was soooo waiting on that!! Thanks :)
@ARP: I agree - and I think it's disgusting. You cannot make a sale out of EVERYTHING! It's just WRONG!
Shoe Carnival had a freakin' MLK Day sale...seriously?? MLK didn't give a rat's ass about your ability to buy one pair of Nikes and get another pair half off.
@ARP: Good ol' Olbermann. Those Republican's will be shoving 9/11 down our throats for years, as if they were the only heroes to emerge from it. I hope people really think about what the RNC truly did with that video.
I think this is evidence that we've come to the point of "Meh, it's 9-11 huh. We should do something."
I agree with the poetic bit, because free soup is just like the kinds of things that businesses in downtown NYC were offering to first responders, everything from free coffee to free massages.
The 1993 attack didn't kill anywhere near the number of people, or for that matter anywhere near the number of people that the rightwing attack in Oklahoma City did. And of course there was some feeling of closure with those bombings since Clinton didn't call off the search for the bombers, instead urging his people to capture, try, and convict them, which they did.
@shorty63136: but you forget the annual President's Day sales, where i see commercials of Abraham Lincoln telling me about mattresses 80% off
My vote: deeply poetic. Soup = comfort food. Manager who offers free comfort food to memorialize national tragedy = not shallow. People who look at someone else's memorial with disapproval = judgementally suspicious. What memorials did you have? Any? Doesn't have to be federally mandated as a holiday to memorialize it personally or even with your business.
@Carbonic: People who think 9-11 didn't affect people if they were all the way over on the West Coast forget (or never even bothered to consider?) that people from all over the country were passengers on those planes, and that people all over the country had family members - sons and daughters and parents - who worked and died in the towers.
Faith in humanity - you're doing it wrong.
@mac-phisto: Seen that a bunch, I love how they tell us "this will never be released for circulation" as if that is a good thing and somehow makes it valuable. Yeah, no shit it's not going to be in circulation, because it's not actual money or affiliated with the U.S. mint in any way...
Again I blame the television networks who continue to sell air time to any scammer with the right amount of money.
@mac-phisto: I guess I haven't been staying awake to watch the late, late, late movie. Of course, these days, I don't watch anything in real time; so I FF through the commercials. But I don't recall even seeing this zip through.
And you are correct: that commercial is despicable.
And @alphafemale: +1 to your comments.
@Carbonic:
That has got to be one of the most uneducated things I have ever seen on this site. I live in the Western US and had friends in DC at the time of the attack. I knew people who responded to the Pentagon. I helped my son's Godmother track down her Uncle who was a pilot for one of the airlines. My in-laws are air traffic and where on duty when the order to ground all airplanes came down, so it did have a profound impact on my life, and many people I know. Your comment was pointless, tasteless, and even at the risk of getting lectured about the comment code, you are an unbelievable ass.
@coddat: Yes, you might be right. This is much how like Culvers always means to put stuff like "Double ButterBurger" and "Brownie Ice Cream" on their signs, but they just smush them together so it looks like "Double ButterBurger Brownie Ice Cream"...yuck.























If they want to give me free soup because thousands of Americans were murdered on this day (yesterday), I'm not going to stop them.
It's free soup!