Obama Fingers?

This is...?

Germans, typically, are pretty on-the-ball with their business tactics; given that, this news is all-the-more intriguing.

A German frozen food company has caused a stir in the US by putting a fried chicken product branded with the name of the United States' first Commander-in-Chief of African American heritage. This is either a gross oversight by the company's marketing department, or a cheap publicity ploy by the company's executives.

Judith Witting, a sales manager for the company, Sprehe, said the connection between Obama and fried chicken - a stereotype long associated with African-Americans - never occurred to her.

"It was supposed to be a homage to the American lifestyle and the new U.S. President," Witting told Spiegel Online, a German media outlet.

"We noticed that American products and the American way of eating are trendy at the moment," Witting said. "Americans are more relaxed. Not like us stiff Germans, like [Chancellor Angela] Merkel."

The full New York Daily News article can be read here.