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Southern California restaurant holds contest to rename 'squaw' bread after complaint (rename it)
Press Democrat ^
| 14 July 2015
Posted on 07/14/2015 1:42:48 PM PDT by rey
RIVERSIDE A Riverside restaurant is holding a contest to rename its "squaw" bread after a customer refused to use the name, saying it is offensive.
Backstreet Restaurant owner Keith Holloway tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1HYpPJI ) that a woman pointed to the dark brown, molasses-sweetened bread on the chalk menu board when ordering a few weeks ago. When asked why she wouldn't say the name, she said it was a slur.
Holloway promptly covered the name with a scrap of paper, temporarily renaming it brown bread. He is taking nominations for a new moniker through the end of the month.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bread; california; crazypeople; pc; squaw; squawbread
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To: rey
The words for 'woman' in the various Algonquian languages derive from Proto-Algonquian *[eθkweːwa]. In the daughter languages, the first consonant sound has variously changed to /s/ (Narragansett squaw, Cree iskwēw), /x/ (Lenape xkwē < əxkwew), or been lost (Shawnee ekwēwa, Ojibwe ikwe). The pronunciation squaw or skwa is found in the northerly Eastern Algonquian languages in New England and Quebec.
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:02:56 PM PDT
by
Crim
(Palin / West '16)
To: rey
Well “whitebread” is also an offense racial slur and you don't hear me complaining.....and don't get me started on other bakery products slurs like "cracker"
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:03:44 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=Newspeak)
To: rey
These are the times that tribal men’s souls
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:05:04 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=Newspeak)
To: rey
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:08:26 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: rey
Really at this point why have they not gone after redskin potatoes?
Its not like the reason they had to rename Brazil nuts... “Brazil nuts”...
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:10:00 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=Newspeak)
To: tophat9000
I don’t pay for ho hos. I pay them to leave.
To: massgopguy
Colonists? French Trappers??
Were talking about bread here....Gezzz
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:11:31 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: tophat9000
I like this line from the movie “The Rundown”. An American in Brazil comments on all the “brazil nut” trees in someone’s yard, and the girl tells him “Down here, we just call them ‘nuts’”.
To: Nea Wood
To: rey
Riverside County is close enough to San Bernardino County, so I suggest this.
New England/Boston Brown Bread is already a known thing, and it is molasses bread (darn good, too, especially with hot dogs and baked beans, with a dap of butter on the bread, still warm.)
I suggest Mojave Bread. Why? The San Bernardino desert area was home to the Mojave peoples, one of the many Pima family tribes.
To: rey
Geez, is Hank Thompson in trouble!!!!
To: rey
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:26:20 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: Boogieman
I dont pay for ho hos. I pay them to leave.
Is that after they play Little Debbie and Ding Dong the Twinkly?
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:27:22 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(SCOTUS=Newspeak)
To: rey
They put their war paint on, over this?
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:28:46 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: rey
So call it Indian Maid Bread which sounds nicer, at least till someone gets upset at the Indian part.
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:29:45 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: rey
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:30:03 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: al baby
My family always called it “drunk indian laying in the gutter” bread.
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:32:37 PM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
('Zionists crept into my home and stole my shoe' - Headline)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:34:05 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: rey
To: rey
Native American words are offensive? Good to know.
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posted on
07/14/2015 2:34:35 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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