The Soup Nazi on Marjorie Taylor Greene's gazpacho police: 'I knew I was in trouble'

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Larry Thomas, the actor behind the Seinfeld character, gives his take on the viral gaffe: ‘You can’t write this shit’


Matthew Cantor
@CantorMatthew
Fri 11 Feb 2022 01.00 EST

The extremist congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who previously alerted the US to the dangers of space lasers, issued a new warning to the American people on Thursday: the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, has unleashed “gazpacho police” to spy on Greene’s colleagues in Congress.

It is, of course, possible that a clandestine network bent on the regulation of cold soup operates deep under the Capitol cafeteria. But Greene was presumably confusing “gazpacho” with the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

Link to tweet

The comments prompted widespread social media mockery, but it’s not the first time soup and fascism have been linked in American popular culture. A 1995 episode of Seinfeld featured the cast visiting a celebrated Manhattan soup spot whose owner was a real stickler for the rules, earning him the nickname the Soup Nazi.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/11/marjorie-taylor-green-gazpacho-police-soup-nazi

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Could the Soup Nazi have secretly been a member of the gazpacho police? We asked Larry Thomas, who played the character, for his take on the moment as soups and Nazis march back into the headlines.

Thomas, no fan of Greene or the ex-president she claims won re-election, says he was floored by the comments. “How in the world can a grown person, who grew up in the 20th century, not know what the word Gestapo is?” he asks. “They say ‘You can’t write this shit.’ It’s beyond you can’t write this shit.”

[Pantagruel]

1. As a dedicated conspiracy theorist

I'm fruitlessly searching for a connection betwixt space lasers and gazpacho?

[Blue Owl]

2. There's also gotta be some connection between "Gazpacho" and "Benghazi"

There's just GOTTA be!!!

[getagrip_already]

3. isn't gazpacho the capitol of benghazi? n/t

[IronLionZion]

4. Jewish space lasers and cold soup police

Both might violate hippo laws

[70sEraVet]

5. We haven't had this much fun since a fly took up residence on Pence's head!

[SWBTATTReg]

6. People should mail / ship in cans of this soup to her, but then she'll mock it and turn it around

in her favor.

The best thing is to donate to a good cause and continue to mock who has got to be one of the dumbest representatives in Congress (where she joins w/ other like-minded idiots).

That's how they supposedly lead, by mocking fellow American citizens, their fellow American neighbors, workers, etc. Really pathetic, eh?

I guess that they don't know how to do the down and dirty work of actually writing bills, and getting legislation passed in Congress so instead, they mouth off. They certainly know how to do that!

[The Jungle 1]

7. She is as dumb as a bag of rocks

[Hekate]

8. KnR. I really have to drag out Mom's old recipe...

That is a good soup, best served cold, of course.