Whole Foods’ Yellow Fever restaurant slammed as 'unappetizing and racist'

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/04/28/whole-foods-yellow-fever-restaurant-slammed-as-unappetizing-and-racist.html ^

[BenLurkin]

The grocery chain does not own the restaurant, which is operated by an independent franchise with two other locations in California, SF Gate reports.

... “Super cool that no one in your company, from concept to construction to this tweet, saw nothing wrong with this,” another detractor agreed.

“I love associating the word "fever" with my lunch. Give me the shrimp pneumonia with extra sriracha,” another quipped.

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“When we finally came up with the concept, all the names we thought of just plain sucked. Buzzwords like ‘traditional’, ‘bamboo’, ‘lotus’, and ‘golden’ weren’t memorable,” the restaurant's co-founder Kelly Kim told Next Shark in 2017. “One night, we just said ‘Yellow Fever!’ and it worked. It’s tongue-in-cheek, kind of shocking, and it’s not exclusive — you can fit all Asian cultures under one roof with a name like this.”

[null and void]

Not once, not twice, but THREE times!

[shanover]

Then, of course, there is the term for Black guys who go after white women.

And white women who go after black guys. Every day is silly season in the USA.

[t4texas]

I thought it was code for “Asian Friendly”. /s

[sportutegrl]

They could have called it Seborrhea.

[An American in Turkiye]

A cousin of yours?

[onedoug]

Dengue

[lapsus calami]

 

 

They could have called it "Bowl Movement"...

 

You just won the thread.

 

 

[Sedona13]

Funny how most people offended are pansy liberal whites. My Chinese friend mentioned this place to me a few weeks ago and she likes the food. I didnt think anything of the name at the time and nor did she.

[Fiji Hill]

Odd name for a restaurant. Yellow fever is still endemic in Africa and South America, but it is not found all that much in Asia, in whose cuisine the restaurant specializes.

[BBell]

Enraged liberals going after an Asian female entrepreneur . Cool. Bing hitler restaurant. A number in Asia of course.

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The staff

Asians in Asia are not very PC.

[editor-surveyor]

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You’re back “in form.”
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[FreedomPoster]

Reminds me of the “joke”/truism:

What’s the difference between Nazis and Communists?

The Nazis had the snappy uniforms.

[KosmicKitty]

I heard the head chef was Sal Minilla.

[SaxxonWoods]

If you don’t like the name don’t go there.

And shaddup and fuhgedaboudit.

[Yaelle]

This could be the stupidest restaurant name ever.

[Mears]

:I heard the head chef was Sal Minilla.”

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Very clever. :-)

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[petitfour]

Do Skeeters discriminate?

What do they serve? Chocolate covered mosquitos? Tonic water?

[mrsmith]

Makes sense.
They'd have had to pay royalties if they'd named it 'Ebola'.

[BBell]

I love that joke and I use it often. Nazi uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss. I kid you not, look it up.

[Dr. Sivana]

It didn't work out for these folks