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MLK Day menu offends some


               
2015 Jan 20, 11:21am   694 views  4 comments

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http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27893679/mlk-day-menu-offends-some

Intended as tribute, casino's MLK Day menu offends some

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey casino says one of its restaurants intended to honor Martin Luther King Jr. by offering fried chicken, collard greens and macaroni and cheese.

Some Twitter users objected to what they considered racially offensive choices. Others called the criticism political correctness run amok.

Joe Lupo, senior vice president of the Borgata in Atlantic City, says The Metropolitan restaurant chose menu items that were among King's favorite foods, as documented in numerous historical sources. He says the restaurant's manager is an African-American woman and that she chose the menu intending to honor King.

Lupo says the casino's restaurants offer menus geared toward holidays, including Chinese meals at Chinese New Year and Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo.

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1   indigenous   2015 Jan 20, 12:02pm  

No watermelon?

2   MAGA   2015 Jan 20, 12:02pm  

My favorite place for chicken:

http://flagstop.com/

3   Tenpoundbass   2015 Jan 20, 12:05pm  

Anyone offended by that menu has never had decent Collard greens, nor have they ever smapled Macaroni and Cheese, that the Cheese part didn't start out as powder or goop from a foil package.

And Fried Chicken? Come on, that's a classic pairing.

The lack of black nominies for the Oscars is a bigger nonissue than this is.

4   indigenous   2015 Jan 20, 12:08pm  

CaptainShuddup says

decent Collard greens

I love me some collard greens.

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