Prince Ranjit, King of Curry

Even in this current age of celebrity chefs, no one has thought to impersonate a foreign Rajah in order to attract publicity for his restaurant, like "Prince Ranjit" did a century ago.

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Stick a "royal" title on a person and the nouveau riche salivate like Pavlov's dogs. Which I don't get! We won the @#$@# war!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/07/12 at 09:55 AM

Tareq Salahi was not the first to capitalize on the ignorance of the general public.

Posted by tadchem on 12/07/12 at 01:05 PM

Sounds like the three aviator scene from "A Night At The Opera".

"So we a-flew almost to New York and guess what? We run outta gas. So we gotta go back."

Posted by KDP on 12/07/12 at 03:12 PM

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