Comments | abunaisakana: What the crap!

abunaisakana

What the crap!

Oct 02, 2007 23:08

I first read this in The Week and I just remembered now to check up on it and apparently it got into today's State News. Beaner's coffee is changing their name because "beaner" can be a derogatory term against latinos. I both love Beaner's and knew of the term "beaner" (I learned from Carlos Mencia) but I never connected the two in my head. One is ( Read more... )

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unrealsnow October 3 2007, 12:16:40 UTC

yeah, i love beaner's and i had never heard of the racial slur. now it will make me think of bigby wolf from the "fables" comic book series which i think is kind of cool, but c'mon: beaner's is a way cuter, more original name. and i hate that it's spelled with two g's.

abunaisakana October 3 2007, 17:24:09 UTC

The new name is just so blaaaaaaaaaaah. And the two g's are dumb. Was Big B's already trademarked?

abunaisakana October 3 2007, 18:30:27 UTC

Oh wait. I realized why they didn't just go with "big b's" BECAUSE IT IS TOTALLY RETARDED! They're just trying to disguise it with biggby's

chocorisu October 3 2007, 15:45:06 UTC

Hurray for Carlos Mencia and his particular brand of stupid, racist humour, for popularising a racial slur that nobody had heard of otherwise. What a winner.

Big B is Lame O. But I can understand the desire to change the name when moving down into the more backward, racist half of the country.

I think we could come up with a hundred better names though.

Ultra Bean
Bean Master
BEAN
Bean 3000
Laser Bean

Bean starts to get really funny the more times you say it.

abunaisakana October 3 2007, 17:22:36 UTC

hahah, it does. That's what I'm saying! This is an MSU coffee place so place out some fricking ballots or something. It'll be cheaper than having it done professionally (maybe they just did it internally). Of course I guess MSU isn't the problem, no one would want to change the name. You get to the states with a clash of latinos and other Americans in the border states and those are the people who they're changing it for ( ... )

youjik33 October 3 2007, 18:36:43 UTC

According to Wikipedia, his real name is Ned. XD

chocorisu October 3 2007, 20:58:29 UTC

The smart kind of race humour mocks widely-held stereotypes. He merely mocks people /using/ stereotypes. At least that is my perception.

I heard about him basically stealing his act... but then, you'd think he'd be better, wouldn't you?

ck_coburn October 3 2007, 23:28:59 UTC

Biggby sounds like Big Boy. :/ I don't think I can ever go there again (not that I ever really did). It sounds like there would be clowns in coffee suits.