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Keep it clean Carolina BBQ.

http://www.drf.com/news/nyra-sued-fo...atoga-ejection

I did not even realize dago was a bad term,

Wasnt that in a move last year?

I was told by Fowler that Andy named this food truck as well.

that was funny

They serve three sandwiches that go by the names The Dago, the Polack and the Westie. I guess they were too stupid to get a proper derogatory term for Irish people.

their 1st amendment rights weren't violated. no one made them change their name.

Surely people can decide if they want to buy insensitive food stuffs

and saratoga can decide it doesn't want someone with an incendiary name on its property.
why would they want to be associated with it? i wouldn't.

This place has been an institution for almost 100 years in Baltimore:

http://www.polockjohnnys.com/

Baltimore is just more open minded than New Englanders you hear

Maybe, but what does New England have to do with New York?

Upstate NY is NE for me.

In NE the water isn't toxic and you can actually get dry after a shower and not smell like sulfur . plus we don't have those awful Albany accents. They almost sound like they're from wis-CON-sin

Whatever you say Hoss.......:rolleyes:

stay on saratoga lake one summer....then you'll know what I mean. The locals bring their dogs to the bar with em. Even the dogs smell like sulfur.

:zz:

Sharp posts -- both of them.

I've lived in 6 different states (3 of them in NE) and my shower didn't smell of sulfur or really any different than anywhere else when I lived in Saratoga Springs. You might want to get out more.

What the hell is a Dago?

it's a not so nice name for italians

Gotcha...I just always called 'em WOP's.

Did you know that stands for without papers? My Sicilian aunt told me that last week. Knew it wasn't nice, I don't have time for silly name calling.

except it's not true. an old, incorrect myth...

dago came from 'diego' and originally was directed towards spaniards. it somehow started getting said towards italians, and well....you know the rest. sometimes people also use the slur of 'guido'.

as for wop:

One famous false etymology is that it stands for "without papers" or "without passport" (abbreviated WOP),[1] widely known to be a fantasy derivation by acronym.[2] According to Merriam-Webster its first known use was in 1908.[3] The commonly accepted etymology is that it originates from a southern Italian dialect term guappo, meaning swagger, derived from the Spanish term guapo, via dialectical French, meaning ruffian or pimp.

Ok then. These are things I don't look up.

i looked it up because i knew 'without papers' wasn't where it came from. but people still repeat it, just like they still say the turns are tight at pimlico.

My grandpa commonly used 'Dago' describing everything from fellow Italians to dago food, dago t-shirts, dago garden etc.

Use or call him a 'Wop' and it was on.

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Another myth, this one in the form of a kind of joke:

Q - Do you know why so many Italian guys are named Tony?

A - Because the immigration officials put a tag on them when they got off the boat - To NY!