Southern California restaurant holds contest to rename 'squaw' bread after complaint (rename it)

Press Democrat ^ | 14 July 2015

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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.

[Vendome]

What restaurant doesn’t fry hash browns?

[SampleMan]

So “Native Vagina Bread” it is. I see sales going down.

[nascarnation]

Not an appealing food category, I must agree...

[shibumi]

Pappoose Bread.

Keemosabe Bread.

Tonto Bread.

Heap Big Loaf.

Melikeum Bread.

Nobeard Bread.

Tom Tom Bread.

Tommy Hawk Bread.

How! Bread?

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[null and void]

There is (or was?) one in Los Gatos. Believe it or not, they thought steaming them was a perfectly good alternative!

[Salamander]

Redcrust.

[Inyo-Mono]

In California, squaw bread is baked, not fried.

Yes, Indian Fry Bread is different here. Our local bakery sells "Squaw Bread." I think I'm going to stop and buy some on way home tonight, then clean my guns under my Confederate flag.

[lovesdogs]

Bread for the easily offended.

[null and void]

The bread formerly named in honor of the hard working, underprivileged, and under appreciated women indigenous to the Americas before that evil white Columbus arrived.

[JoeProBono]

[CdMGuy]

I live in Riverside County and pass through the City of Riverside on a regular basis, frequently stopping for lunch there. You can bet I will not be dining at this guy’s restaurant.

[CdMGuy]

“Some but not all Native American condemnation of “squaw” results from claims that it comes from a word for the vagina.”

If that is the case, then maybe he should rename it Indian Pussy Bread.

[BwanaNdege]

Hissy-fit bread

[mongo141]

How about OMG I am soooooo offended bread for those sniveling
perpetually crying assholes out there.

[null and void]

Winner!

[Clintonfatigued]

Some of the suggested name changes were so good, I couldn’t improve on them.

Elizabeth Warren White Bread
Thin-Skinned Politically Correct Pansy Bread
Native American Gender Fluid Bread

[Salamander]

Twat cake.

[Mastador1]

Wouldn't Brown bread be offensive to Blacks or Latinos? Shouldn't we get rid of White bread because it is racist by nature?

[Pollster1]

Can they name it after a sports team?

Redskin bread?

Chiefs Bread?

Braves Bread?

Indians Bread?

[kalee]

Make sure you let the owner know the reason you will not be returning.