# Pink Taco restaurant name causes problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967 "2006-05-16T12:45:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/1 "2006-05-16T12:45:16Z")
From Scottsdale Arizona: [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060516/D8HKJQH81.html](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060516/D8HKJQH81.html) I wouldn’t say the name was “derogatory”, but it certainly is provocative. This shouldn’t be a surprise. The same thing happened _eight years ago_ in Kansas. I don’t know if it was the same chain: [http://www.kstatecollegian.com/issues/v102/su/n175/news/city.bordertown.crisp.html](http://www.kstatecollegian.com/issues/v102/su/n175/news/city.bordertown.crisp.html) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/2 "2006-05-16T13:06:27Z")
Years ago my mother sent me a newspaper clipping about a court case in Adelaide (I’m pretty sure) which went like this: A couple opened a restaurant and called it _Get Stuffed_, the local council objected to the name and told them to change it. The owners took the council to court and argued that the name was a clever joke - eat until you are stuffed ha ha. The judge’s decision which was in really formal legalese boiled down to this: He didn’t believe that the choice of _Get Stuffed_ had anything to do with being replete with food but rather he felt that it hinted at the phrase _Get Fucked_. If that was the case, in the interests of free speech, he was prepared to rule in favour of the restaurant and allow them to call the place _Get Fucked_. Barring that they would have to go along with the council and choose another name. This was the option the weak bastards took, adopting some mundane-soon-to-go-broke name. But talk about the wisdom of Solomon. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/3 "2006-05-16T13:24:34Z")
OK, am I the only one here who never heard the term “pink taco” as a reference to a certain part of the female anatomy? Why is it “deragatory”? Me and my pink taco need enlightenment. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/4 "2006-05-16T13:34:52Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > He didn’t believe that the choice of _Get Stuffed_ had anything to do with being replete with food but rather he felt that it hinted at the phrase _Get Fucked_. If that was the case, in the interests of free speech, he was prepared to rule in favour of the restaurant and allow them to call the place _Get Fucked_. This could not possibly have been a sincere proposal in favor of free speech. More likely a highly formal, legally couched way of telling Get Stuffed to get fucked. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/5 "2006-05-16T13:35:42Z")
By the way, down the New Jersey shore (esp. at Seaside Heights) there’s a clothing-and-other-stuff shop called **Big Pecker’s**. (Maryland’s Ocean City evidently has a bar and grill with the same name. Beaches apparently attract such things.) Their sumbol is a rooster with a big beak, which is the rationalization of the name. I never heard of any protests against the name there (although there seem to have been elsewhere, judging from the Search Engine responses). Both this and Pink Taco more risque than **Hooters** , I’ll grant, and more likely to generate difficult questions from toddlers. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/6 "2006-05-16T13:59:53Z")
I had never heard the term “pink taco” before, but now that I know its a derogatory term, I’m retroactivly offended. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/7 "2006-05-16T14:06:53Z")
I just love the fact that in an article about a restaurant name that’s causing trouble because it’s synonymous with VAGINA (or maybe more anatomically correctly LABIA), that not once does the word VAGINA appear in the article. “[P]ortion of the female anatomy” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/8 "2006-05-16T14:23:19Z")
> [@AP Wire](#): > > One of those e-mails stated: “The City of Scottsdale has a very fine reputation around the world. Let’s keep the standards high. Let’s let what plays in Vegas stay in Vegas.” Oh, yeah, Scottsdale is known throughout the world as a city of moral virtue that would never tolerate a place called “Pink Taco,” and that’s a capital “P” that rhymes with “D” and that stands for DRUGS! People of Scottsdale: Send me your SS checks, and I’ll make sure the kids of Scottsdale will never run afoul. A marching band, with uniforms, instruments and maybe somebody who can teach them. (Is Maid Marian still around?) ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/9 "2006-05-16T14:47:16Z")
How is it any worse than Hooters? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/10 "2006-05-16T14:57:58Z")
There used to be a record store in Columbus named “Magnolia Thunderpussy”. Gawd, I miss it … well, that sign, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/11 "2006-05-16T15:03:45Z")
Chapel Hill used to have a restaurant called Besa mi Burro. Eventually someone translated it for a scandalized Downtown Business Administration, but by then, it was too late for them to do anything about it. Great restaurant! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/12 "2006-05-16T15:08:20Z")
I forgot to tell you that I’ll have a monorail installed. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/13 "2006-05-16T15:09:58Z")
I used to have a t-shirt that said “if God hadn’t meant for man to eat (insert appropriate word for that part of female anatomy that since this is MPSIMS I will only allude to), he wouldn’t have made it look so much like a taco” ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/14 "2006-05-16T15:27:10Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > There used to be a record store in Columbus named “Magnolia Thunderpussy”. > > Gawd, I miss it … well, that sign, anyway. Heh, I was coming in to mention that. I used to live about a block from that store, right off High street. (I really hated living on south campus) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/15 "2006-05-16T15:30:38Z")
There was (probably still is, for all I know) a bar around here called Whiskey Dick’s. Their slogan? “Where at least the drinks are stiff.” ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/16 "2006-05-16T15:32:45Z")
> [@MidnightRadio](#): > > How is it any worse than Hooters? It’s the difference between topless and full-frontal, my friend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/17 "2006-05-16T20:42:34Z")
[Does their food smell like fish](http://www.tacodelmar.com/food/tacos.html)? ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/18 "2006-05-16T21:18:16Z")
The problem is, now that publicity has fixed the association in everyone’s mind, what _can_ one name a taco stand in Scottsdale? Hot Tacos? Big taco? Sloppy tacos? Mama’s Big, Sloppy Taco? Stuff Your Own Tacos? You might as well just abandon the word “Taco,” 'cause there’s pretty much no adjective you can couple with it (sorry) that isn’t going to draw a grin (Har!). Not to mention the All-You-Can-Eat Sunday ad campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/19 "2006-05-16T21:20:18Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > He didn’t believe that the choice of Get Stuffed had anything to do with being replete with food but rather he felt that it hinted at the phrase Get Fucked. If that was the case, in the interests of free speech, he was prepared to rule in favour of the restaurant and allow them to call the place Get Fucked. Barring that they would have to go along with the council and choose another name. This was the option the weak bastards took, adopting some mundane-soon-to-go-broke name. I could’ve sworn that “free speech” meant that citizens could speak freely, naming their businesses according to their own wishes as opposed to those of the government. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > more likely to generate difficult questions from toddlers. Cry me a river. It’s not the entrepeneur’s fault somebody bought the wrong box of Trojans. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967/20 "2006-05-16T22:38:00Z")
> [@The King of Soup](#): > > You might as well just abandon the word “Taco,” How about “Jalapeno Smile”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-taco-restaurant-name-causes-problem/356967.md?page=2)