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On one Danish island, no pizza if you’re German or French
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Aage Bjerre has three rules for dining at his pizzeria on the Danish island of Fanoe: No dogs. No Germans. No French.
Beats the hell out of "no shoes, no service, no shit".
The owner of Aage's Pizza said Monday that he's tired of French and German attitudes toward the United States, calling them "disloyal" and "anti-American" in their bid to thwart a possible U.S.-led attack against Iraq. Since hearing news of France and Germany's opposition, which has led to a rift in U.S. relations with Europe, a split in NATO and a feeling of malaise between old friends and stalwart allies, he's made it rule number one to bar service to any French or German tourists in Nordby, the North Sea island's largest town. "Hadn't the United States helped Europe in defeating Germany, there would have been photos of Adolf Hitler hanging on the walls around here," he said, referring to Nazi Germany's occupation of Europe in World War II.
Boy, there's no speech quite as shocking as the plain spoken truth, is there?
The island, 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of the capital, Copenhagen, is a popular spot for visitors from neighboring Germany. Of the approximately 100,000 tourists who come, some 60 percent are German, said Birthe Elstroem, head of the island's tourism office. The others are mostly Scandinavians and Dutch. There are few French visitors to the island, which has a year-round population of 3,300.
While I appreciate the support, and I agree with his statements, I'm not at all sure I agree with the concept of a blanket ban. There are lots of Fritzies, and even Monsieur Jacques Crapauds who don't hate us on GPs. My butt cheeks are still clenched over this, and I'd not wish it on anyone who's undeserving. Fair is fair — and unfair is still unfair.
The idea of losing euros from German and French tourists hasn't curbed Bjerre's zeal. On Friday, he put two homemade pictograms on the shop door, much like the ones that show the outline of a dog with a bar across it. One featured the silhouette of a man colored red, yellow and black — the colors of the German flag. The second was painted blue, white and red — the French Tricolor colors. Both silhouettes had a bar across each man.
Where can I get one?
The ban has yet to effect his business because tourist season typically starts after Easter and peaks during the summer. "I do what my conscience tells me to do," he said.
Thereby breaking with 2000 years of European behavioural tradition
Should Germany decide to participate in U.S.-led military action against Iraq, Bjerre, 44, said he would lift his ban. But the few French tourists who do visit the island will need to fill their bellies elsewhere. Frenchmen have "a lifetime ban here," Bjerre told The Associated Press. "Their attitude toward the United States will never change."
And apparently, niether will their manners, clothes or bathwater.

Does he have a website? Is there anyway we can send some note of thanks to this brave isolated soul of decency behind the lines in "occupied europe"?
Posted by: Frank Martin 2003-02-24
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=10607