Soup Nazi Throws His Ladle at Danger Room

So this happened: the Soup Nazi is unhappy with me.

Nee Larry Thomas, the culinary bete noire of the Seinfeld crew e-mailed to say how angry and hurt he was that I included his face in a post yesterday about Osama bin Laden’s personal chef. Thank you, blogosphere, for giving me this day:

Spencer,

I am shocked and amazed today to get tons of messages that you posted my photo in an article about Osama Bin Laden….Compote of Chaos.  I am a third generation American citizen and to attempt to link me to Terrorism is a gross insult and very defamatory to my career and character.  Plus you also chose to use a copyrighted photo without permission.  That is not a photo from the TV show but one I had commissioned and own outright.  I would appreciate it if you would take my face off of your article about convicted terrorists.

Thank You,

Larry Thomas

Larry, I’m man enough to concede that we messed up by putting a copyrighted photo of you on the blog yesterday. As you can see, now we’ve replaced your visage with a clip from your immortal Seinfeld episode. My fault. I apologize and I hope that settles our tab.

But whoa. Was I calling you a terrorist? “Attempting” to “link you to terrorism?” Come on. Humorlessness about being the Soup Nazi — that’s just a tragic irony.

And before you can say it: Large Mulligatawny. Next!