Baraklava Obama

Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia, a storyteller and video director who collaborates with us to produce Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America, sends this snapshot from Istanbul. He's in Turkey for an international storyteller's convention.

"While visiting a hip Baklava spot in Istanbul," says Joe, "This chef proudly walked out exhibiting his political creation: Barack Obama made completely from baklava."

As an aside: looks like the chef used the same Associated Press photo as reference material that got Shepard Fairey in so much trouble. Can you barter for photo licensing with tasty sweets?

• [trefecta]

  Which photograph of Obama was this based off of? 

  • [LogrusZed]

     The one where he was Rey Mysterio Jr without his luchadore mask and weird contact lenses.

• [vonbobo]

  Baklava coppyright infringement?

  can I have it with ice cream?

  bonus netdollar to the first “baklava” poster

• [SedanChair]

  “Hey that’s copyright infringement”

  (mouth full) “Nnn whrr you tlkn bt iown see no cprr infffrrr”

• [john cummings]

  Such a difficult title, Barack Baklava would be equally as good

• [Josh Jasper]

  Oh, that Obama! He’s a real honey, but kinda flaky, and pretty nuts too.

• [Ultan]

  Looks more like Paul Wolfowitz than Obama.

  • [niktemadur]

    Looks like Bush Jr to me, he’s even got the jug ears.
    I’ll never forget the phrase Uncut Magazine once used to describe Bush:  “That jug-eared goon squatting in the White House”.

    • [Marc Mielke]

      To be fair, both guys got funny ears. 

      • [zarray]

        To be really fair, everybody has funny lookin ears, especially on acid.

• [Matthew Wise]

  “Hip baklava spot”? No. Hip places go in and out of style. Gulluoglu is the best baklava in Istanbul and it has been around since 1949. Respect!  http://gulluoglubaklava.com/

• [BombBlastLightingWaltz]

  Is that dude holding the baklava smiling or sneering? Or doing a Mona Lisa lip curl?