Yahoo Question...How did 1 cheese sandwich kill 20 million people?

[Lost in CT]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080908082901AAeFww6


Should I cross post this in GD?

[jeff30997]

1. Ok,I think I know::

Stalin ate the evil sandwich and the butchery began.(Of course he had a box full of those sandwiches

and that explain the other millions of victims).

[Fleshdancer]

2. I think this would make a spectacular GD post!

the last answer was the best: "They all starved to death!"

[Lyric]

3. It's a reference to the genocide in Rwanda.

We shouldn't be making fun of it, ya know?

:(

[MrCoffee]

6. Philip Gourevitch made a number of claims in his book which were never substantiated elsewhere

I've never read anywhere else where this story was confirmed.

[Lost in CT]

10. Well it looks like this might refer to Stalin... which is comedy gold

Though it is interesting to me if the cheese sandwich was present at two genocides.... hmmm... suspicious.

[DS1]

4. It showed up in General Discussion

[FloridaJudy]

5. Stalin was shamed

By being served a cheese sandwich, and killed 20 million in revenge? Could be. I'm half Russian, and we don't do cheese well. We're awesome cooks, but not great cheese-makers. That's best left to the Italians and the French. Or the Amish.

[FloridaJudy]

7. I think I found it

Google rules - http://books.google.com/books?id=cnGQl1fWE-wC&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=stalin+cheese+sandwich&source=bl&ots=atNaxM5tt4&sig=9PCvzUIT7AmXkBGmzYP8gEdYR3I&hl=en&ei=xFioSZGPEuHAtgfl9bn0Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result

Though it sounds as if it was his side-kick who was poisoned, not Stalin himself.

[Lost in CT]

8. Stalin had a sidekick??? You mean like Robin or Boo Boo nt

[SoxFan]

9. or Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin