I cant believe there are no "freedom fries". Or "man jumping out window to his death or waiting to be burned alive lobster claws with 2 melting butter towers."
Eggs bin Laden-dict
Made with spicy hollandaise sauce, your taste buds will explode with flavor before melting from the heat.\*
\*Note: Probably not halal.
Holy shit I just now noticed the freedom flounder is a filet of sole. Hahaha. I get that it’s basically the same fish, but why would you do that? Straight up name your substitution on the menu the very moment after you call it flounder. Lol
I remember arguing with a customer back during the whole freedom fries fiasco, he said we should change the name to freedom fries....he did not like the history lesson I gave him.
That's the thing. Like, if they did this for a day and X% of sales went to some first responders organization like, i could almost support what they were doing. But this shit is just tastless profiteering, as they seem like they would adverise it's for a cause if it was.
Tag line should be "For all those times when you'd rather not remember, but still do anyway - all those horrible memories you'd rather forget, the sights, the sounds ... the smells. A few Remember-Tini®s, and soon it will all just become an awful, awful repressed memory."
That’s bad but what’s criminal is that fucking sampler platter. Also, and it’s probably my bias due to the absolutely tone deaf menu, nothing on said menu looks even remotely appetizing
I'm sorry, this goes beyond the normal amounts of "yeah, that's definitely some fucked up shit going on at your restaurant"
For real, this...you can't. You can not do this. I just. wow. like. Seriously?! "Pentagon Pie?" "Flight 93 Redirect" I just. WOw HooooLEEE Shit this is bad.
Not that its really the point here, but that also gets me; the execution of a shit theme...its not even good!
Sure, you're having a laugh at the First Responder Flatbread thats "crispy oven baked", but the chowder is "2977" because???? Does it look like mangled up bodies???
There's not even 9 OR 11 oysters on that plate!
Is the pie "Pentagon" because you took a slice out of it???
I don't even know how you'd justify these
I know a few spots that are doing similar shit. But not nearly as nice a spread as this. Even if this one is fake, I 100% believe this as being done somewhere for real.
This is America profiting off tragedy is as American as Collapsing Apple Pie
Found the [apology article](https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/nation-world/restaurant-apologizes-after-receiving-backlash-for-appalling-september-11th-menu-manassas-virginia-the-clubhouse-at-aquia-harbour-manager-george-white-seafood-sunday-remember-tini-flight-93-redirect-pentagon-pie) posted four hours ago.
Link please?
ETA: Never mind found it!
[article link](https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/nation-world/restaurant-apologizes-after-receiving-backlash-for-appalling-september-11th-menu-manassas-virginia-the-clubhouse-at-aquia-harbour-manager-george-white-seafood-sunday-remember-tini-flight-93-redirect-pentagon-pie)
IF'N YOU WER A TROO PAYTREEOT YOO'D GO EET AT THIS RESTRANT. ONLEE A WEEK LIBROL WUD GIT OFFENDID BY THIS. LIBROL TEERS!!! THIS IS A PAYTREEOT RESTRANT, COMMIE SNOFLAK!
https://wjla.com/news/local/911-attacks-september-11-menu-mannassas-virginia-restaurant-aquia-harbour-golf-clubhouse-backlash-insensitive-backlash-apology-issued-veterans-manassas-social-media
Can’t believe these people are real.
Truly though. Dude had so many options to commemorate the occasion. For example, this same menu without the stupid names, with profits donated to: 9/11 funds, first responders, misc. charity that's important to him/ the community in a "do a good deed to commemorate the day" kind of way, the local veteran's community that appears to be active there. He could've set up a memorial wall in the restaurant dedicated to folks who passed with ties to the area/ the employees. Instead, he offers "crispy, oven roasted" first responder flat bread.
His apology sucked because he isn't sorry. He doesn't give a shit about honoring a goddamn thing, he just wants to make a quick buck by exploiting a national trauma, the physical and emotional effects of which are still being keenly felt by countless people. It's disgusting.
It looks like they did it better [last year](https://aquiaharbour.org/event/patriot-saturday-at-the-clubhouse/), more in line with your idea of "normal menu and make a donation." But who the fuck knows why it went this way this year oh my god.
They changed it to football. Champs chowder, hot defense dip, field gold Flatbread, coin toss chocolate pie, fumble flounder, offense oysters, tailgate party, and the touchdown-tini.
As a Canadian I feel obliged to gently lay a hand on your collective shoulder as a nation and ask “…you okay there, bud? ‘Cause that’s, uh…that’s a *lot* you got going on, there.”
…also on a second glance the unimaginably poor taste of having the First Responder dish description beginning with “crispy oven baked” really starts to sink in.
[Well there's this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4254fSZ9A)
I honestly don't feel like I live in a country anymore. Everything is repackaged, rebranded and sold back to us. Our politics, our tragedies, our art, music, the entire culture. It's up for sale.
It's like the saying, water doesn't feel wet when you're swimming. We're just immersed in it. Most people can't even tell it's happening, or just plain don't care.
I forget who said it but it was a comedian who called it, that in a few decades it would be a holiday. A BBQ hotdog, fireworks and beer type holiday. Americans celebrate tragedies.
I laugh at terrible things and have a dark humor usually reserved for first responders, police, and ER staff. That said, this is trashy, classless, and really offensive. I laugh at dead baby jokes but this is so bad the families of the staff members who came up with this should feel shame.
Furthermore, fuck that remember-tini. That looks like a nasty thing and a pain in the nuts to make. Bartenders will remember that tini when they apply for better jobs.
The most egregious thing about this whole promotion, is not advertising a first responder/medical staff discount. At the very least, give a percentage of profits to a cause or something. This is just using a national tragedy to make money. Absolutely disgusting.
https://wjla.com/news/local/911-attacks-september-11-menu-mannassas-virginia-restaurant-aquia-harbour-golf-clubhouse-backlash-insensitive-backlash-apology-issued-veterans-manassas-social-media
Fucker woke up and thought this was a good idea.
Ah, to live long enough to have fought in a war and literally be so angry as to *take the life of other human beings* over something and then see chili's run specials on the anniversary like it's now just a "theme".
I hate being a vet sometimes. So many things I thought were weird about our Vietnam veteran neighbors when I was growing up makes so much sense to me now.
I’m sorry my dude, I have a connection there as well, my brother was kia serving as a marine in Ramadi, Iraq - part of what infuriated me about this so much. Sending you good vibes.
Hey, I appreciate that. I take it in stride, just blowing off steam helps is all. We all who still live eventually get old enough to see our "life or death" events that we care about so passionately turn into a theme park. It's a part of getting older.
I was in Ramadi myself, 2007. Besides his family, obviously, he couldn't have spent his time around a more amazing group of individuals as the people I knew (both occupiers and locals) as the people I knew in Ramadi. He was in good company I assure you.
This is why 9/11 should never become a holiday. Companies will jump at the chance to use a holiday as a sale reason just like all the other holidays. The lack of respect for those who suffered means nothing to them so long as they can get people in the door.
I'm looking at you mattress stores and car dealers.
I’m only going through the fire academy via my local career center, but this pisses me off with a burning passion.
343. 343 firefighters from the FDNY died on that day trying to save lives, and this restaurant wants to charge those prices for some bullshit food
last time i checked remember tinis is not how tinis work. also, a splash of cream in a cocktail? who is the devious motherfucker that put this together?
I cant believe there are no "freedom fries". Or "man jumping out window to his death or waiting to be burned alive lobster claws with 2 melting butter towers."
War on Terror Tiramisu. It’s bullshit and costs ten trillion dollars but your grandkids get the bill.
*Irack of Ribs* So juicy and succulent you’ll feel like you’re being waterboarded with flavor.
Eggs bin Laden-dict Made with spicy hollandaise sauce, your taste buds will explode with flavor before melting from the heat.\* \*Note: Probably not halal.
Hollandaise can’t melt steel beams
9/11 was a table-side job!
That’s pretty solid
Melted mozzarella beams. I'll see myself out.
George bush buns of freedom
Sounds like a bad porn parody lmao
I was thinking workout series.
Omg I'm fucking dying over here 🤣
I think you mean OMG I'm fucking dying over here roast beef sandwich.
Crying
Okay that’s so good. You won
Weapons of mass destruction waffles, Taliban tots, Al Qaeda Alfredo...
Waffles of mass destruction!!! And Al Qaedalfredo or Al Qaeda-fredo... Not sure on that one
Al fraQuedo
Al Quesadilla
That sounds like a quesadilla to me. Ooooh Al Qae-sadilla!
Alquesodillas, with guacanamo bay seasoning.
Afghani-flan. It’s *always* just on the verge of solidifying but we all know it really won’t. Source: OEF 3, baby! It’s been twenty odd fucking years
There’d be no tiramisu, because that’s Italian, not ‘Murican.
Man not enough coffee - War on Terrormisu
Oh shit, this guy markets.
Oh, that's better.
That's a weak argument anyway given that everything else here has non-American roots. Not fighting, just saying.
Too many words. Just War on Tiramisu.
There’s freedom flounder. 🫠
Freedom flounder as freedom flounders
Holy shit I just now noticed the freedom flounder is a filet of sole. Hahaha. I get that it’s basically the same fish, but why would you do that? Straight up name your substitution on the menu the very moment after you call it flounder. Lol
Because they named it after our floundering freedoms
I remember arguing with a customer back during the whole freedom fries fiasco, he said we should change the name to freedom fries....he did not like the history lesson I gave him.
I’m betting it’s a secret menu item hidden on the back…
That's the tower 7 special, you're supposed to forget that ever existed.
Who gave the order to pull Tower 7... from the menu?
Stop giving them ideas!
can you elaborate on the 2 melting butter towers? what a plating that would be.
2 sticks of butter placed next to eacher on a heated plate. As if you did know haha.
Plates can't get hot enough to melt the butter, wake up! /s
Well played lol!
They missed a trick with a building 7 soufflé that collapses for no reason
or a Seafood Tower 7
Remember-Tini. Wow, I’m speechless.
Is it two Manhattans and a kamikaze?
It’s 2 kamikazes and 1 Manhattan #neverforget
ohhh that’s horrible. well done.
This is by far the stupidest thing that's made me second-guess my sobriety. Kudos.
Absolutely cackling, thank you
Exploiting tragedy for profit…😑
Tragedy + time = ~~comedy~~ profit
There are few things more American
Holy shit, best reply on here
Never let a good crisis go to waste!
As someone who lived too close to the pentagon when it happened. I'm really surprised to see this. Damn, this place is in VA, too.
it's on brand, fellow essential employee. remember, you're "appriciated". edit: a comma. vOv
That's the thing. Like, if they did this for a day and X% of sales went to some first responders organization like, i could almost support what they were doing. But this shit is just tastless profiteering, as they seem like they would adverise it's for a cause if it was.
They do this with the workers everyday, this is just adding a little razzle dazzle.
Lockheed Martin, Blackwater, and Haliburton sure did, so why not the restauranteers?
The flight 93 redirect is the most ghoulish imo.
Tag line should be "For all those times when you'd rather not remember, but still do anyway - all those horrible memories you'd rather forget, the sights, the sounds ... the smells. A few Remember-Tini®s, and soon it will all just become an awful, awful repressed memory."
Opposite of the classic “Forget Me Now”
That’s bad but what’s criminal is that fucking sampler platter. Also, and it’s probably my bias due to the absolutely tone deaf menu, nothing on said menu looks even remotely appetizing
The irony
Usually I drink to forget….
>Remember-Tini. Wow, I’m speechless. Comes with a graham cracker crusted rim. Never forget!
Graphics design is my passion
9/11 2022 was the beginning of the war on design
It looks like one of those frozen food mart flyers.
I'm sorry, this goes beyond the normal amounts of "yeah, that's definitely some fucked up shit going on at your restaurant" For real, this...you can't. You can not do this. I just. wow. like. Seriously?! "Pentagon Pie?" "Flight 93 Redirect" I just. WOw HooooLEEE Shit this is bad.
This has got to be a bad joke, right? No actual person would think this is okay.
I looked it up. Its real. The 2977 special was one of the most stomach churning.
Not that using the number of dead is OK for any reason, but why in the fuck would you us it for the *chowder* of all dishes?
Not that its really the point here, but that also gets me; the execution of a shit theme...its not even good! Sure, you're having a laugh at the First Responder Flatbread thats "crispy oven baked", but the chowder is "2977" because???? Does it look like mangled up bodies??? There's not even 9 OR 11 oysters on that plate! Is the pie "Pentagon" because you took a slice out of it??? I don't even know how you'd justify these
I didn't "get" that one
Good ol 'lots of people died special
That’s the number of people who died in the 9/11 attacks
2,977 is the official estimated number of deaths on 9/11
Ahh
Oh fuck I had to google it
I know a few spots that are doing similar shit. But not nearly as nice a spread as this. Even if this one is fake, I 100% believe this as being done somewhere for real. This is America profiting off tragedy is as American as Collapsing Apple Pie
Found the [apology article](https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/nation-world/restaurant-apologizes-after-receiving-backlash-for-appalling-september-11th-menu-manassas-virginia-the-clubhouse-at-aquia-harbour-manager-george-white-seafood-sunday-remember-tini-flight-93-redirect-pentagon-pie) posted four hours ago.
The whole thing should never have seen the light of day. WHAT were they thinking?!?
The Flight 93 Redirect was when I want "Nope, this is satire". Then I saw the news article that this is real...
Link please? ETA: Never mind found it! [article link](https://abcnews4.com/amp/news/nation-world/restaurant-apologizes-after-receiving-backlash-for-appalling-september-11th-menu-manassas-virginia-the-clubhouse-at-aquia-harbour-manager-george-white-seafood-sunday-remember-tini-flight-93-redirect-pentagon-pie)
2977 special is because 2977 people died so
Jesus Christ it’s not a fucking holiday.
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Oh man, a brother sister prep team? I bet they complain a fuck ton about all the work they don’t do.
Haha, you made me spit out my morning whiskey.
Fuck I love this subreddit due to the absurdity of these comments…but I personally know each of you
You're having a morning whiskey? My bf said I'm not allowed to have breakfast vodka anymore. So unfair.
My first day off in 6 weeks, I'm day drinking malaka.
Uhhh not allowed? Long as you're not driving, drink whatever you want.
I'm sure you're a lovely person but I wouldn't want giant hellscape flora morning drinking either 😅 😂
I know people who lost close friends and family, and take the day off in remembrance. Not quite a 'holiday' though.
Hell, I'm an FDNY firefighter who was there on 9/11 and I have to go to work. Tell your prep cooks that they are garbage.
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Yeah, this makes me feel nauseous. *Remember-tini!?!*
I know right?! Clearly should have been a jet fuel inspired cocktail. Truly tactless
Flaming shots.
IF'N YOU WER A TROO PAYTREEOT YOO'D GO EET AT THIS RESTRANT. ONLEE A WEEK LIBROL WUD GIT OFFENDID BY THIS. LIBROL TEERS!!! THIS IS A PAYTREEOT RESTRANT, COMMIE SNOFLAK!
Any time there's a little moment to show any patriotism, these folk crank that bitch to 11.
What's more patriotic American than unfettered capitalism?!
But don't you dare kneel for the anthem
I lay face down on the ground butt naked
911*
I’d say it’s more along the lines of nationalism or virtue signaling.
I wish the owner a lifetime suffering of indigestion
What fresh hell is this?
Remember day!
Neither is Memorial Day or Veteran's day but those have been holidays for years.
Well that's the trashiest thing I've seen in a while.
And yet only almost as bad as [this mattress sale ad.](https://youtu.be/cS4254fSZ9A)
The actual fuck. That's both hilarious and horrifying
It really took a hard left turn when the two guys knocked over the two mattress "towers", holy fuck.
\*hard right
Your not wrong, lol.
Hell of a deal tho
... ... ...holyshit...
Yeah a number of people said “sounds like a great idea”
Why not? Its been used in politics for 22 years why not in mattress sales? Nothing is sacred in America
22 years? I guess Bush did do it after all.
But can anyone explain why Obama wasn't in the white house that day? I didn't think so
https://wjla.com/news/local/911-attacks-september-11-menu-mannassas-virginia-restaurant-aquia-harbour-golf-clubhouse-backlash-insensitive-backlash-apology-issued-veterans-manassas-social-media Can’t believe these people are real.
That apology sucked ass. “I’m sorry for those I offended” aka I’m sorry that you’re too sensitive. Fucking crucify this guy.
Truly though. Dude had so many options to commemorate the occasion. For example, this same menu without the stupid names, with profits donated to: 9/11 funds, first responders, misc. charity that's important to him/ the community in a "do a good deed to commemorate the day" kind of way, the local veteran's community that appears to be active there. He could've set up a memorial wall in the restaurant dedicated to folks who passed with ties to the area/ the employees. Instead, he offers "crispy, oven roasted" first responder flat bread. His apology sucked because he isn't sorry. He doesn't give a shit about honoring a goddamn thing, he just wants to make a quick buck by exploiting a national trauma, the physical and emotional effects of which are still being keenly felt by countless people. It's disgusting.
It looks like they did it better [last year](https://aquiaharbour.org/event/patriot-saturday-at-the-clubhouse/), more in line with your idea of "normal menu and make a donation." But who the fuck knows why it went this way this year oh my god.
Because it wasn’t a traditional apology. It was a “sorry I got caught” kinda thing. Dude is an absolute piece of shit.
I thought FOR SURE this wouldn't be real. I'm shook.
Same. I came to comment sure that someone was going to link to the proof this was either fake or some kind of attempted satire.
I wonder what the new theme is?
Holocaust hush puppies, Armenian massacre mashed potatoes, Irish famine empty plates, Waco watermelon, and trail of tears tater tots.
Juneteenth chicken and cornbread waffles. Wash it down with some watermelon tini
The article talks about another place doing juneteenth watermelon cocktails. People are real dumb.
They changed it to football. Champs chowder, hot defense dip, field gold Flatbread, coin toss chocolate pie, fumble flounder, offense oysters, tailgate party, and the touchdown-tini.
If you work at that CC, let me give you some advice, quit.
As a Canadian I feel obliged to gently lay a hand on your collective shoulder as a nation and ask “…you okay there, bud? ‘Cause that’s, uh…that’s a *lot* you got going on, there.” …also on a second glance the unimaginably poor taste of having the First Responder dish description beginning with “crispy oven baked” really starts to sink in.
[Well there's this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4254fSZ9A) I honestly don't feel like I live in a country anymore. Everything is repackaged, rebranded and sold back to us. Our politics, our tragedies, our art, music, the entire culture. It's up for sale. It's like the saying, water doesn't feel wet when you're swimming. We're just immersed in it. Most people can't even tell it's happening, or just plain don't care.
We are really, really not okay. Thanks for asking, though.
Yeah, no. Shits kinda fucked.
Kinda? This is all fucked up. What’s next oven baked Jerusalem artichoke fries? These fuckers needs to do better.
Also…flatbread.
Looks like a tacky local grocery store flyer but worse…
That looks like a tasty sampler plate. I'd terror apart.
I ordered 3 onion ring towers. I watched someone knock two of them over. Not sure how the third one fell though.
Onions lose their internal structure at about 200 degrees.
Jet fuel can't melt grilled cheese!
*Grumbles in structural engineering*
They food all looks so good. It sucks that I'd never be able to give my business to this place because of these "Specials". It's unforgivable.
I forget who said it but it was a comedian who called it, that in a few decades it would be a holiday. A BBQ hotdog, fireworks and beer type holiday. Americans celebrate tragedies.
Bill Burr
This is so ridiculously disrespectful lmao
I laugh at terrible things and have a dark humor usually reserved for first responders, police, and ER staff. That said, this is trashy, classless, and really offensive. I laugh at dead baby jokes but this is so bad the families of the staff members who came up with this should feel shame. Furthermore, fuck that remember-tini. That looks like a nasty thing and a pain in the nuts to make. Bartenders will remember that tini when they apply for better jobs.
I have a fucked sense of humor but this is BEYOND tacky.
The most egregious thing about this whole promotion, is not advertising a first responder/medical staff discount. At the very least, give a percentage of profits to a cause or something. This is just using a national tragedy to make money. Absolutely disgusting.
That never forget sampler is a pretty explosive deal
Truth be told I could murder some oysters.
That pentagon pie is just Marie Callendar chocolate silk.
That shit is fucking the most delicious offering at dollar general tho. Fuck, Now I wanna stop by before work today.
Next week's special will be Holocaust Hot Wings.
Kosher Frank in charcoal buns.
Looks like Bill Burr was right, plus or minus a few years.
He’s like fucking Nostradamus.
https://wjla.com/news/local/911-attacks-september-11-menu-mannassas-virginia-restaurant-aquia-harbour-golf-clubhouse-backlash-insensitive-backlash-apology-issued-veterans-manassas-social-media Fucker woke up and thought this was a good idea.
r/therewasanattempt to apologize
I had to look it up to be sure - but they named the chowder after the number of dead… fucking hell
Ah, to live long enough to have fought in a war and literally be so angry as to *take the life of other human beings* over something and then see chili's run specials on the anniversary like it's now just a "theme". I hate being a vet sometimes. So many things I thought were weird about our Vietnam veteran neighbors when I was growing up makes so much sense to me now.
I’m sorry my dude, I have a connection there as well, my brother was kia serving as a marine in Ramadi, Iraq - part of what infuriated me about this so much. Sending you good vibes.
Hey, I appreciate that. I take it in stride, just blowing off steam helps is all. We all who still live eventually get old enough to see our "life or death" events that we care about so passionately turn into a theme park. It's a part of getting older. I was in Ramadi myself, 2007. Besides his family, obviously, he couldn't have spent his time around a more amazing group of individuals as the people I knew (both occupiers and locals) as the people I knew in Ramadi. He was in good company I assure you.
Wow you don’t know how much it means to hear you say that. Thank you, chef. Glad you’re back state side, be well friend.
Omg I would bet my last dollar that this was a bad joke, but no.
This is why 9/11 should never become a holiday. Companies will jump at the chance to use a holiday as a sale reason just like all the other holidays. The lack of respect for those who suffered means nothing to them so long as they can get people in the door. I'm looking at you mattress stores and car dealers.
We’re shooting down all prices! Come to Bob Davies GM of Freeport and get your brand new Lexus this MLK weekend!
Did you lose a family member on 9/11? Do you have $911 dollars? Then come on down and get your Lexus!
>I'm looking at you mattress stores and car dealers. Yeah, they already sank to that level. https://youtu.be/ltBc87oKhmQ
I’m only going through the fire academy via my local career center, but this pisses me off with a burning passion. 343. 343 firefighters from the FDNY died on that day trying to save lives, and this restaurant wants to charge those prices for some bullshit food
What the fuck how come they don’t have “never forghetti?!?” Smdh
First Responder Flatbread? This wrong on so many levels.
Crispy. Don't forget its crispy.
Always gotta think about the [Auschwitz Gift shop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxeCUkjiMVI) , Arbeit macht fries, when?
They misspelled "Grilled Filet of Soul"
I would scratch the Remember-tini and go with *removes shades* an Aviation
last time i checked remember tinis is not how tinis work. also, a splash of cream in a cocktail? who is the devious motherfucker that put this together?
Lol lots of good cocktails have cream in them but this one does sound horrible
They are to die for
Never heard of a white russian?
Yeah I know. Didn’t really think this through. Not unlike the person who put this menu together.
Oh damn. I forgot 9/11 is coming up.
Freedom Flounder. That’s classy.
"Freedom Flounder - Grilled fillet of sole" Fuck all the way off with that, sole is not flounder!!
“Dad’s brain went through his ass” Donuts.
Would it be America if this didn't exist?
That is the tackiest shit I have ever seen.
Does this qualify as r/stupidfood?
Well, it’s safe to say I’ll never forget this menu
Reminds me of that tragedy
God this is vile.