Thank you! I need to pass this edifying info along to some pals in Pasadena and Monrovia. They need it, really.
There’s a Mexican restaurant in the Phoenix area called the Pink Taco… www.pinktaco.com
It might be a chain. I’m not sure.
Wasn’t there a stink (erm, excuse the pun) about this a while back? It had a different name before proposing the name change that upset a bunch of people?
Not a restaurant, but I have seen billing statements from a hospital with this unfortunate misspelling: Intercummunity.
Hmm, I’m not sure, but the Scottsdale city government did receive several angry and anonymous emails that objected to the restaurants name.
The owners response was that if the restaurant were truly “vagina-themed” there would be “vaginas all over the walls.” (From wikipedia)
Also according to Wikipedia, the owner of Pink Taco “offered $30 million for the naming rights to the Arizona Cardinals’ new stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The offer was subsequently rejected by the Cardinals, who dismissed the announcement as a joke and a publicity stunt. On September 28, 2006, Pink Taco launched a similar bid to rename the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to the Pink Taco Dome. Owners of the Superdome said that negotiations have not yet begun, and Louisiana law states that any name change must be approved by the Louisiana State Legislature.”
That’s what I was thinking of – the stadium naming. I didn’t know they’d made a bid on a second stadium, though. Don’t give up easily, do they?
Ha. Apparently not. I don’t believe for one instance the owners are so clueless they don’t know the connotations of “pink taco”. And they are also apparently intent on world domination… or at least football stadium domination…
Umm, and also, as I have never really posted on any message board before (and I’m sorry if this is a stupid question) how can I make my quoted test say “originally posted by…” like everyone else’s does? Or do I just type that in myself? (Also sorry if this was an inappropriate place to ask this.?
Here we go! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/100_031451421.jpg
No idea if it’s the same pic Sternvogel is referring to.
Oh, I’m quite sure they know precisely what Pink Taco is all about, just as I’m sure they wish they could get the rights to name a stadium with a retractable dome that opens from the middle. That they could paint pink.
You can either hit the “quote” button in the bottom right-hand corner of this message, or you can use the quote tags, like this:
[ quote=yappysod ]Original text[ /quote ]
(Take out the spaces inside the square brackets; they’re there just so they aren’t resolved into an actual quote box)
Doh. Change “quote button” above to “reply button”
Thank you very much!
I’m feeling left out! When I click on the OP link, all I get is an error message that the page can’t be found, and directing me to go to deathllama.com and proceed from there.
Hey, is this a conspiracy or something?!
Apologies if I’ve missed any earlier mentions, but I think the ideal name would simply be “The Y”. As in, “Boy, I feel like dining at the Y tonight”.
Oh, and sure enough…
The old file name was “found porn” in reference to a magazine section reserved for items just like this one. But that’s a file name that can trigger sniffers at work, so I changed it to something more benign. Maybe I should ask a mod to edit the OP?
Anyway, here’s the new linky link.
And BTW, “Mom’s Taco” is a TERRIBLE name.
and TERRIBLY funny
The original Pink Taco is in Las Vegas, and expansion of the chain is planned. Here’s an article which is accompanied by several pages of predictably bawdy comments.
Hey, all these names are at least better than Restaurant. Seriously, in the town my sister used to live there was (it didn’t last long) a restaurant named Restaurant.
Was it in The City?
I’ve been to A Dong Market on Silverton Rd. in Salem. They sell Asian food and imports.
Our local giggle joint is called Thai Ho.