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Local burger purveyors learn valuable lesson: not even food deserves to be called “half-breed”

By Jon Sufrin

Good burgers, bad jokes (Image: Meri Perra)

Holy Chuck Burgers is known for its twisted humour, but too much obnoxiousness is apparently a bad thing. According to the Toronto Star, a rush of customer complaints has prompted the restaurant to take two burgers off its menu: the Half-Breed and the Dirty Drunken Half-Breed. It seems the names were intended to be taken literally, since the burgers were half beef and half bacon. Unbeknownst to the owners at the time, “half-breed” is also a racial slur.  

All of this could have been prevented with a quick consultation of the dictionary. Merriam-Webster clearly says that the term is “often offensive.” Try telling that to Cher.

[Toronto Star]

 
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