What is this logo?

September 14, 2018 4:20 PM

Friends: received a gross of these for free to pass out as gag gifts (decorated with lights). Now feel uncertain - what is F.O.G? What is the logo? Internet says Fear of God and Fat Oil and Grease, not very festive.
posted by garbanzilla to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Best answer: It's the "White-and-red Polish flag with superposed "anchor" emblem of the Polish resistance" from the Warsaw Uprising
posted by dilaudid at 4:25 PM on September 14, 2018 [3 favorites]

The Kotwica, specifically, since the Warsaw uprising page doesn't seem to spell that out
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 5:13 PM on September 14, 2018 [1 favorite]

That looks almost like a Polish military vet item you got there. Wear that in the wrong bar as a gag and you might get out only with broken legs. A bit like how telnyashkas were briefly popular a few years back until very large Russian ex-marines might politely request you never wear their mark of honour again.
posted by scruss at 5:37 PM on September 14, 2018 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: You all, are amazing. If my batteries had not been running low I might have recognized the flag colors and perhaps gotten somewhere.
posted by garbanzilla at 6:58 PM on September 14, 2018

Best answer: Warning: over the last few years it's become something of a right wing emblem in Poland. Someone wearing that wouldn't make an immigrant or LGBT person comfortable.
posted by I claim sanctuary at 4:26 AM on September 15, 2018

Response by poster: sanctuary, I was afraid of that.
posted by garbanzilla at 6:51 AM on September 15, 2018