Do you want fail with that?

So there's this lunch place in the neighborhood, called Certe. They do catering, and you can also go there and get salads and soup and sandwiches. In the past year, after a Midtown Lunch challenge, they've been making their sandwiches fancier. They've been giving them cute names, using crazy ingredients, stuff like that. I follow them on twitter to hear about sales and specials that only their followers get. I do this with several other eateries, including food trucks. It's useful.

This month's special has been a Bahn Mi called "The Chubby Chinese Girl." I was ready to light my torch and head off for a good and proper protest before I found out it shared the name with a food blog who had challenged them to make the sandwich, and was chuffed that they named it after her blog. Okay, fine. No problem.

The problem came when I found out what next week's new special sandwich debut. Now, I'm not a fan of "fusion" Bahn Mis, I tend to be more of a traditionalist in that respect, but if someone is doing something interesting, I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.

My issue is not that they're doing a Bahn Mi with buffalo-wing-style-chicken. That might be tasty, for all I know. No, my issue?

THEY'RE CALLING IT "THE FALL OF SAIGON."

REALLY?!

::head desk::

I mean, I know when I think of the disastrous end to a war that cost millions of lives, I totally think of a sandwich. This name is obnoxious, poorly thought out, and not at all pithy and funny like they were going for. Granted, you can't make any "Seoul Food" jokes like you can with Korean food, but still, there has to be a less offensive name that's clever. If I wasn't dizzy from my headdesk just now, I'd suggest it myself.

No. Just, no.

Do you want fail with that?

So there's this lunch place in the neighborhood, called Certe. They do catering, and you can also go there and get salads and soup and sandwiches. In the past year, after a Midtown Lunch challenge, they've been making their sandwiches fancier. They've been giving them cute names, using crazy ingredients, stuff like that. I follow them on twitter to hear about sales and specials that only their followers get. I do this with several other eateries, including food trucks. It's useful.

This month's special has been a Bahn Mi called "The Chubby Chinese Girl." I was ready to light my torch and head off for a good and proper protest before I found out it shared the name with a food blog who had challenged them to make the sandwich, and was chuffed that they named it after her blog. Okay, fine. No problem.

The problem came when I found out what next week's new special sandwich debut. Now, I'm not a fan of "fusion" Bahn Mis, I tend to be more of a traditionalist in that respect, but if someone is doing something interesting, I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.

My issue is not that they're doing a Bahn Mi with buffalo-wing-style-chicken. That might be tasty, for all I know. No, my issue?

THEY'RE CALLING IT "THE FALL OF SAIGON."

REALLY?!

::head desk::

I mean, I know when I think of the disastrous end to a war that cost millions of lives, I totally think of a sandwich. This name is obnoxious, poorly thought out, and not at all pithy and funny like they were going for. Granted, you can't make any "Seoul Food" jokes like you can with Korean food, but still, there has to be a less offensive name that's clever. If I wasn't dizzy from my headdesk just now, I'd suggest it myself.

No. Just, no.

Today in brief

( Random Thoughts of the Day )

Today in brief

( Random Thoughts of the Day )