Posted on 08/29/2017 12:11:13 PM PDT by EveningStar
In an age of careful branding, restaurateurs put a lot of thought into choosing just the right name. Rarely will they go to the trouble and expense of changing it.
Yet the chef Tom Colicchio is dropping the name of his newest Manhattan restaurant, Fowler & Wells, after learning that it has historically racist connotations. The new name is Temple Court.
Fowler & Wells, which opened last October, was named for a publishing company and scientific institute that once operated in a building on the same site in the financial district; that building was later torn down, replaced by Temple Court, the building that stands there now. The men who started the company, Lorenzo and Orson Fowler and Samuel Wells, were proponents of phrenology, a popular 19th-century belief that the shape of one’s skull revealed characteristics like mental aptitude and personality.
The practice was frequently used to justify slavery and to advance a belief in African-American inferiority. Orson Fowler wrote that coarse hair correlated with coarse fibers in the brain, and indicated coarse feelings; that, he wrote, suggested that people of African descent had poor verbal skills and traits that were best suited for nursing children or waiting on tables.
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Sensitive Stasi forced a name change... because previous name was racist! See?
It’s his money...................
So, when are we gonna DEMAND that Planned Parenthood be dissolved because its founder believed the same exact things?...................
Isn’t Temple offensive to atheists?
What’s golfer Ricky Fowler to do?
Isn’t Court offensive to criminals ?
Need to change again. The Temple district in London got its name from the Knights Templar who originally owned the area. The name came from Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, where the Templars fought as crusaders. Obviously an anti-Muslim name.
Tomorrow: all words beginning with the letter “N” will be banned, because, you know, n-word.
Guess his real historical knowledge, and desire for thereof, doesn't extend beyond what the writers of "Top Chef" write for him.
“Fawk the F.B.I. and fawk all the Army troops/Fighting for what, b*tch? Be your own man” – Soulja Boy"Poor verbal skills and traits." Really? I never would have noticed. We probably don't want these "modern" guys nursing children or waiting on dinner tables, though.“A young n*gga on the warpath/And when I’m finished, it’s gonna be a bloodbath/Of cops, dying in L.A.” – Ice Cube
And Court to anti-royalists?
Oh....you're just being hateful now. You must be a Trump supporter?
Coliccio needs to give up his restaurants because he’s of Italian descent. It’s the politicalky correct thing to do because of Christopher Columbus. /s
Lo, Fowler and Wells
Ring, ring; ring ring that bell
Around that darn curve
I miss Sambo’s.
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