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Sunday, May 25, 2008

More Racially, Ethnically, or Otherwise Offensive Fast Food Menu Items

We're all familiar with the low, rumbling furor over Dairy Queen's "MooLatte" (a fine product, by the way - shame). But what about these other offensively-named menu items? Why has no alarm been raised?
• "Big Mac" - clearly some sort of obscure slur upon the Scots, as if to say, "You Scots! Big you are, maybe, but you have a useless layer of flavorless bread in the middle, and a predilection for freaky pink sauce!"

• The "Whopper" - originally named the "Wopper," in tribute to its popularity within the Italian-American community.

• "Papa Burger" - this is just sexist. A Papa Burger but no Mama Burger? Apparently A&W used to have a Mama Burger. But I guess they bowed to the forces of the pressures of our current dominant non-traditional family paradigm and gave Mama the heave-ho. Leaving a nation of burger lovers motherless. Burger-wise, at least.

• Wendy's "Chicken Temptations" - "temptations" is salacious enough. But when you consider that "chicken" is slang for "prostitute" in Cantonese, that's a one-two punch of FILTH! Plus as if that weren't bad enough, the "Frosty" used to be called the "Stiffy." At least, that's what we used to call it. It's so stiff! Too thick for a straw. It's like...the milkshake that eats like a meal.

• "Green Beans" - I kid you not. "Green Beans." At KFC, this is considered a "side." That's got to be more offensive than any 3 of these others combined.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

sadly, dude, you have too much time on your hands and eat too much junk food apparently.

loyally yours,

z

dogimo said...

It's an interesting point you raise, but you need not worry. The posts on this blog are largely non-autobiographical in nature. A few semi-autobiographical ones may be mixed in, but the way I present it here is nothing like the way I reacted to it. There are a few straight-up musings in there also, I guess. But overall, the posts on this blog are only writing practice: different characters of varying degrees of idiocy spouting off. Some are versions of me, some are versions of people I know, but all of them are fictional takes.

Looking at this posts, the specific 7 products mentioned, I have never tried 4 of them. I've tried both the Whopper and the Big Mac of course, but I haven't eaten either in years.

The post was just a goof on the silliness of deliberately reading offense into banality.