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Just when you thought theme restaurants couldn’t get more subversive than the Hard Rock Café (mozzarella sticks and Freddy Mercury’s pants? I don’t know guys. . .), Pittsburgh ups the ante.

Conflict Kitchen is a rotating-menu takeout joint that serves food from countries that the U.S. is currently at odds with (actual combat, apparently, isn’t a prerequisite . . . the last iteration was Iranian food). Right now, they’re serving up “savory homemade Afghan turnover filled with either pumpkin, spinach, lentils, or potatoes and leeks.” Meals come wrapped in facts and opinions about the featured country.

From Cool Hunting:

…The initiative goes beyond comestibles, intending to spur conversations about the social contexts of the conflicts within these nations. Rubin [one of the proprietors] envisioned a space that “could not only add some culinary diversity to the city, but, more importantly, could create a public platform for a more empathic discussion about the places and cultures that many people are not familiar with outside of the relatively narrow and polarizing lens of the mainstream media.”

This really takes the wind out of my cuisine-from-whatever-city-the-Blazers-are-playing idea. My Phoenix Suns concept— Kokopellis—featured leftover soup and breadsticks from the Olive Garden. Now what am I supposed to do with all the churros and frozen lemonade I bought for tomorrow’s Orlando game? Damn you, Pittsburgh.