The New York Times reported today on a new promotion at everyone's favorite Dallas pizza joint, Pizza Patrón, that has gotten some criticism from patriotic Americans who don't like the fact that Pizza accepting pesos for pizzas. Apparently the company’s Dallas headquarters received about 1,000 e-mail messages on Thursday alone. Some were supportive, but many called the idea unpatriotic, with messages like, “If you want to accept the peso, go to Mexico!” There were even a few death threats. The company has gotten a lot of phone calls announcing boycotts: “Next thing you know, we’re going to be raising Mexico’s flag,” one caller complained.
Mark Krikorian, extra special person and executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, a group that seeks to limit immigration, said he was concerned that Hispanics could create a parallel mainstream in the United States. “It’s a trivial example, but Hispanics now have their own pizza chain,” Mr. Krikorian said. “It’s a consequence of having too many people arrive from a single foreign culture, and may well reflect a kind of cultural secession.”
Having spent a lot of time in Buffalo, New York, amagomundi is ready to join the thousands of callers who have also been criticizing Tim Horton's for accepting Canadian dollars in their New York stores. One of our fictional faithful readers says, "It's a trivial example, but Canadians now have their own coffee shops." Well, amagomundi has had it up to here with Canadians coming to Buffalo to take the jobs from the American worker, and we call for more National Guard troops to police the border. If they want bagels and coffee, let the Canadians get them in Erie, Ontario! Stop the cultural secession of Western New York!
Another fictional caller said, "Next thing you know, the Canadians are going to be raising Canadian flags in New York State."
Next week: Americans spending American dollars in Ontario.
And check in the week after for our piece on Estadounidenses spending din Mexico.
And the week after: Why Tim Horton's tastes so damned good.
2 comments:
I happen to know of a certain professor who is using this incident to spur discussion in her class tomorrow.
The Pizza Patron incident not the Tim Horton's incident.
Also, after visiting their web site, I'd like to say that:
a) That's the first official employee picture I've seen in a long, long time that had absolutely no racial diversity whatsoever. Not even one token gringo!
b) They seem to have a trademark on calling a pizza "lista." So, we need to be careful what we say.
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