cheese steak grill (posted my monkapotamus--thanx, monk).
Posted on 06/10/2006 7:42:36 AM PDT by Liz
A city official has asked Geno's, one of Philadelphia's best-known cheesesteak joints, to take down a sign......"This is America: When ordering, speak English."
Councilman Jim Kenney noted some residents of linguistically diverse South Philadelphia find the sign offensive.
.....Geno's owner, Joseph Vento, a grandson of Sicilian immigrants....(said) "I don't see much of a big deal about learning to say, 'Cheez Whiz.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I've been working for the last month with a guy I thought was from PA. Yesterday I asked him if he was enlightened after his four weeks in the Southland? He looked at me quizzicly and his buddy said "He lives in North Carolina"
He was truly enlightened, having actually moved to Mount Airy NC 11 years ago from Cape May NJ.
The joke was on me.
For the first time in my life I heard the word "Youse " used in a conversation. He had not yet learned the more correct idiom " Y'all".
The $64 million question. We been pushed over the frickin' line, and we ain't goin' back. Americans are sick and tired of devious hyphenates manipulating the political process, using the US government as an ATM to finance their various self-esteem problems.
The border invaders have learned the hyphenate MO only too well----that vote hungry politicians will assume the Hyphenate-Fellate position and handover the US Treasury to potential voting blocs/campaign contributors....just as long as they hyphenate themselves.
The ongoing American tragedy is the balkanization of American culture by hyphenates to manipulate the US govt to serve the greed and incessant demands of various hyohenated voting blocs.
The point is: real Americans don't use hyphens.
As one astute FReeper posted: "Americans understand that they are being threatened with financial disaster, unemployment, lower standards of living, crime, backbreaking taxes, loss of liberty, and of civil rights, to name a few. All because of a burgeoning illiterate population, with racist, anti-American attitudes, and Marxist indoctrination to take over our country with the vote, and violence, if necessary. "
Americans will not allow this to happen.
Done!
cheebuger, cheebuger, cheebuger, cheep, cheep, cheep, no coke, pecsi.
The ironic thing being that 1. Cubans are now one of the wealthier ethnic groups in America 2. Second Generation Cuban Americans prefer English to Spanish and 3. Many of the latter complain about the Haitians and Central Americans not speaking English. That being said, I've eaten in practically every Cuban restaurant in Miami and have never received the same treatment......Clemenza
There has been a great influx of non-Cuban Latin Americans into Miami and just because a restaurant features Cuban food does not mean it is run by Cubans.
The Latin American Cafeteria chain is an example.
Turning away a paying customer would be a very "un-Cuban" thing to do. We Cubans have our priorities straight and making a buck is right at the top of the list. :-)
Can the tude!
No, it isn't. I've actually left restaurants because I couldn't communicate with the staff or management. I've gone to many places where I've really had to struggle to communicate what I did buy b/c the staff/mgt. also couldn't understand English to any level that provides for smooth communications.
And who are you to tell me what I've experienced? What a pompous take!
And where the hell do you live, in some po-dunk town up in South Dakota?
Heheh----cute story.
Reminds me---I pulled into a gas staion the other night---and---surprise---the guy who walked up to my car was white and spoke perfect English----not some incomprehensible Asian pigeon English dialect.
I wanted to hug the guy. I could actually understand him, and he looked so American in his sparkling white undershirt and black khakis.
BTW, he told me he recently had a new employee from an African nation who spoke only two words of English--"Yes, master."
Too bad...as a private business owner, he has every right to put up any sign he chooses and to serve whomever he chooses.
Absolutely right......that's one of the threats of these invaders---wanting to establish a permanent Spanish-speaking sub culture on out shores.
I bet you are right....and a good restaurant is only as good as the last meal they served....consistancy is paramount!
Remember, the publics opinions or desires have no validity with the courts. The courts almost always bow to liberal opinions and pressures.
"No shirt, no shoes, no English, no service, no exception."
You are the one who started this and now you are all pissed because I called you on it. You said that we had to learn spanish as a "practicality" now explain that away as not caving in to PC! Can't take the heat? Don't post on FR and you won't have to. If you do post be prepared for someone to take exception to your un American attitudes about having to learn spanish to do business for the sake of "practicality"!
As far as your remarks about someone living in a "podunk town in SD" I am sure you have pissed many a South Dakotan off highly and you show your liberal leanings by showing a distainful and elitist attitude of people who don't live where ever the hell you live. Nice work!
Because these are the PRECISELY kinds of digestible, sound-bite friendly, gut-level 'human interest' American TV stories most rank-and-file, Joe Sixpack, politically inactive people in the USA who don't pay particular attention to legislation and Senate passage, and detailed illegal alien social-cost/crime statistics, can really get into and form an image and then an opinion and then action.
Before you know it, everyone will know the GENOS' STORY, and the little tatooed guy off Pasayunk Avenue will be a absolute coast-to-coast national folk hero... people nationwide will be 80/90% in favor of that little sign.
The hispanic/illegal alien and ambulance chasing-lobby will only be urinating on themselves big time. It comes at a very bad time indeed. It is just as potent as all those illegals' Mexican flags and defaced US flags in the streets in LA which destroyed their positive image in the minds of most Americans overnight...the national poll numbers ran massively against them. It radicalized folks over simple imagery.
I in fact say BRING IT ON. I HOPE they file a lawsuit. And this becomes a national symbol.
The pro-bilingual, pro-illegal crowd will have done GREAT SELF-INFLICTED DAMAGE to themselves. How stupid could they be???? :-)
I have been following this story for the past couple of days ever since my wife brought it to my attention. Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno's is bright, intelligent, articulate, and dead on target.
The councilman is, as most politicians today are, ignorant, wrong, and an azz.
You got that right. It takes only a small item---like a "Speak English" sign---to tip the balance.
Geno's signage is the thing that brings on the full-scale revolt against the invaders.
Amen.
No, he's quite correct. At least it was that way in the late 1980s. If you speak even a few words in French, they consider that you want to learn the language and they are really nice to you; otherwise, they think you are an obnoxious bore. I suppose the desire for tourist bucks may have limited that impulse since then, though.
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