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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhole Foods is slammed over Yellow Fever restaurant; owner says it's not racist
Kelly Kim and her husband wanted the name of their new pan-Asian restaurant to stand out, eschewing bland or stereotypical phrases, like bamboo, dragon and lotus.
Then it hit them. Yellow Fever.
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The announcement triggered a national outcry on social media, with many criticizing the name's racist undertones.
Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands every year, mostly in Africa, and named for the jaundice hemorrhage that the virus produces. But the phrase is also a common reference to a term associated with a white man's sexual fascination with Asian women.
Read more: http://www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-whole-foods-yellow-fever-20180429-story.html
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it may be kinda stupid naming a restaurant after a dread disease (imagine naming it after Harold Ivan Victor 's initials), but racist?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)TreasonousBastard
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(22,145 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)This was a really stupid name for a restaurant.
Cirque du So-What
(25,811 posts)a diner named Sam & Ella's.
FSogol
(45,356 posts)They are credited with inventing the chili burger.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)CozyMystery
(652 posts)Racist, sexist, and the name of disease.
Since the owners are Asian, do you think that makes it okay? I don't.
When my son told me about this yesterday, I didn't know it was an Asian restaurant. My first thought was I wouldn't go to a restaurant named for a disease. Son left out that crucial detail when he didn't understand why I was hung up on the disease.
If I were the owners, I'd bag being defensive about it and change the name.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)"Ugh the name of this place skeeves me out," a woman said in an August five-star review, "but I'll be damned if they don't make a tasty bowl."
I remember the furore of Richard Branson's Virgin record store or the obvious meaning of FCUK.
although they seem to have decent reviews .
catbyte
(34,169 posts)disease or racism/sexism--it's not a name of a restaurant that I'd want to spend money in. WTF were they thinking?!?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Either of those is better for a restaurant.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Name the dishes after the various symptoms. Black Death has probably been done already.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Salmonella Dumpling
Viral Pork
Chicken Dropping Soup
General Himmler's Chicken
Tofu Bacteria Style
Tetanus Noodle
and the house special: