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A Florida restaurant’s burritos may be tasty, but customers are saying the dishes’ names are downright tasteless.
The owners of Lola's Burrito Joint in Jacksonville, Fla. say they were just trying to be funny when they dubbed one of their massive burritos the "Wetback Willie," First Coast News reported.
Carlos Ramirez and Robert Kapuschanski said they named the dish after one of their employees who suggested the moniker.
"He said name it the Wetback Willie after me, and some people took offense," Kapuschanski told First Coast News.
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Burritos touting the names "Dirty Sanchez Crab" and "No Papers Shrimp" remain on the menu at Lola’s Burrito Joint in Jacksonville, Fla.
People quickly took to Facebook to blast the restaurant for the name, prompting Ramirez and Kapuschanski to change the dish's title to "Wet Willie."
"Somebody said something, we immediately answered, we immediately changed, and it's the right thing to do as a human being," Kapuschanski said.
But the restaurant, which just opened in June, is still under fire for several other dishes' monikers — many of which customers say are in poor taste.
Burritos touting the names "Dirty Sanchez Crab" and "No Papers Shrimp" remain on the menu, according to Pocho.com.
"It's a crab burrito, and crabs usually eat from the bottom of the sea," Ramirez told First Coast News, explaining the reasoning behind the name.
But customers aren't having it.
"Racial slurs are not a joke and I don't believe can ever be used in complete innocence or good fun," Sophia Bejarano wrote on the restaurant's Facebook page.
croberts@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ve-menu-items-article-1.1129515#ixzz22mwYkCkM
A Florida restaurant’s burritos may be tasty, but customers are saying the dishes’ names are downright tasteless.
The owners of Lola's Burrito Joint in Jacksonville, Fla. say they were just trying to be funny when they dubbed one of their massive burritos the "Wetback Willie," First Coast News reported.
Carlos Ramirez and Robert Kapuschanski said they named the dish after one of their employees who suggested the moniker.
"He said name it the Wetback Willie after me, and some people took offense," Kapuschanski told First Coast News.
*
Burritos touting the names "Dirty Sanchez Crab" and "No Papers Shrimp" remain on the menu at Lola’s Burrito Joint in Jacksonville, Fla.
People quickly took to Facebook to blast the restaurant for the name, prompting Ramirez and Kapuschanski to change the dish's title to "Wet Willie."
"Somebody said something, we immediately answered, we immediately changed, and it's the right thing to do as a human being," Kapuschanski said.
But the restaurant, which just opened in June, is still under fire for several other dishes' monikers — many of which customers say are in poor taste.
Burritos touting the names "Dirty Sanchez Crab" and "No Papers Shrimp" remain on the menu, according to Pocho.com.
"It's a crab burrito, and crabs usually eat from the bottom of the sea," Ramirez told First Coast News, explaining the reasoning behind the name.
But customers aren't having it.
"Racial slurs are not a joke and I don't believe can ever be used in complete innocence or good fun," Sophia Bejarano wrote on the restaurant's Facebook page.
croberts@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ve-menu-items-article-1.1129515#ixzz22mwYkCkM
