Baseball Mascot Gets New Name After 'PorkChop' Is Deemed Offensive

FoxNews.com ^ | 12/3/2007 | AP

[blam]

"How much longer before major grocery stores are sued because they sell a product named with this derogatory word?"

The 'P' word?
(That's not fair, the 'N' word did all the work in the early days of out-lawing words.)

[MissouriConservative]

According to the article, this is why it was deemed offensive.

“Guillermo Lopez, vice president of the Latino Leadership Alliance, said he was called “pork chop” when he worked at Bethlehem Steel decades ago.

“If my parents were alive, they’d be having fits,” said Lopez, among those who complained to the team. “It meant much more to them than it does to Puerto Ricans now in the Lehigh Valley.”

So one guy was called “pork chop” as a kid and he deemed it offensive to himself and complained.

[ansel12]

Pretty interesting.

[Hot Tabasco]

He deserves the day off,don’tcha think? :)

Caught it dintcha? LOL!

[Gondring]

“PorkChop had been submitted by 32 fans. The replacement name, Ferrous — from the Latin word “ferrum,” or iron — received the most fan nominations, with 235.”

I wonder why they didn’t pick ferrous in the first place.

Isn't that offensive to Latin Americans?

>smirk<

[DeLaine]

I must be missing something. What has Pork Chop got to do with Hispanics?