Restaurant sparks fury over 9/11-themed menu including Flight 93 Redirect Crab Dip and Pentagon Pie
A RESTAURANT has sparked fury over a 9/11-themed menu intended to commemorate the terrorist atrocity.
The Clubhouse restaurant’s dishes included ‘Flight 93 Redirect Crab Dip’ and ‘Pentagon Pie’ as well as ‘2977 Chowder’, in reference to the number of victims who died during the September 11 attacks.
The ‘Patriot Day 2022’ menu was posted online by George White, the manager of the restaurant, in Aquia Harbour, Virginia.
Also on the special seafood menu was ‘Freedom Flounder’, ‘9-11 Oysters’ and ‘First Responder Flatbread’.
But he swiftly removed after he face an immediate backlash with one Twitter user branding it “appalling”.
“Hopefully they’ll be properly shamed for this,” wrote another after the menu went online.
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Monica Iken, who lost her husband in the attack, also condemned the restaurant.
“9/11 should not be used to sell food and if one was going to do that the right thing would be to donate to a 9/11 related cause or foundation,” she
White later apologised on Facebook and explained it had not been his intention to offend anyone.
“My intention was to bring attention to that horrific day 21 years ago,” he wrote.
“To honor those who lost so much as well as those who gave everything that day. We will have a new theme tomorrow.”
He has since updated the Sunday menu with a football theme that features ‘Hot Defense’ crab dip, ‘Champs Chowder,’ ‘Fumble Flounder,’ and a ‘Touch Down-tini.’
It comes after a limo hire service in New York has been blasted for using September 11th imagery to promote a discount coupon.
Carmel Car and Limousine Service sent out an email to advertise a anniversary promotion.
On September 11, 2001, a group of al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners.
Two planes – Flight 11 and Flight 75 – crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.
American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the West wall of the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
Of these who died 2,606 were killed at the World Trade Center and the surrounding area.
Both towers collapsed following the impact, with debris causing more deaths and injury on the streets below.
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The dead included 300 New York firefighters.
Among those who died was “The Falling Man”, a figure photographed falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41am.