That's just Pho Keene Great!

When I open my own restaurant, it will be named Pho Q.

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Vietnamese Restaurant Forced To Remove 'Offensive' Sign


City officials in Keene, New Hampshire, have forced a restaurant preparing to open to take down an exterior sign with the business’s name, because it sounds like a profanity.

According to Associated Press, Keene City Manager Elizabeth Dragon told the business owner, Isabelle Jolie, that the sign had to be removed because it could be seen as offensive and she didn’t get the correct permission.

In comments to NBC Connecticut, Dragon said: “I contacted Isabelle, the restaurant operator, and asked her to take down the sign. The lease that she has with the city requires that she gets permission from the city before putting up any sort of signage, posters or lettering, anything that would be seen from the exterior of the building.”

The restaurant in question—which is located in a public building next to Keene City Hall—will serve Vietnamese food and has been named “Pho Keene Great” by the owner.

Pho is a popular Vietnamese soup—consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat—that is pronounced “fuh.” When followed by the city’s name, the two words become a play on the well-known expletive "f***ing."

Dragon noted that she wished Jolie all the success with her business but told New Hampshire Public Radio that she had to “strike a balance.”

The restaurant is set to open in March, although Jolie and city officials are still trying to come to an agreement over the issue. Jolie has said that she doesn’t think the name is offensive.

In a Facebook post on Pho Keene Great’s official account, she addressed the situation writing: “City manager has deemed our business name as offensive and a permanent sign with our business name, will not be allowed. The [Pho Keene Great sign], is a temporary sign, and it was requested that we take it down due to her opinion that it is offensive name and a contract violation as it relates to City ordinance.”

“Please note,” she continued. “The City is not delaying our opening over the name issue. We just can't have a sign with "Pho Keene Great' on it.”

In December, a university restaurant in Clemson, South Carolina, sparked outrage after using a sign many considered to be offensive to promote a chicken sandwich named after the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

The sign contained the phrases “big enough to feed a caravan” and “so good it should be illegal” with the last word underlined, the Anderson Independent-Mail reported.

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The restaurant in question—which is located in a public building next to Keene City Hall—will serve Vietnamese food and has been named “Pho Keene Great” by the owner.

How about not giving your business a double entendre name?

Keene - they are supposed to have a great burger joint. Now I've two reasons to visit.

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Keene City Manager Elizabeth Dragon

I find her last name offensive. We all know the meaning of the term "Dragon Lady".

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Originally posted by 12131:
Jolie has said that she doesn’t think the name is offensive.

Nor do I. But, I do find it crude and stupid.

How about just giving it a normal name? What a crazy thought.

Lame.

There are already Pho Q restaurants, fwiw. There's at least one in Houston.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by 12131:
Jolie has said that she doesn’t think the name is offensive.

Nor do I. But, I do find it crude and stupid.

How about just giving it a normal name? What a crazy thought.

Because freedom, that's why.

Don't like it, don't go there.

What we need is 100x less worrying about what others do in their homes and businesses.

Crass or not. Their business, their choice.

This is America, FFS.

I've been to Keene, New Hampster, for a wedding. They won't have much competition for Vietnamese food especially if it's pho king great instead of tasting like the Vietnamese version of Panda Distress.

The biggest surprise in Keene was my friend (also a Texan) had BBQ catered for the wedding. She assured me it was good and she was correct. I was at a table full of Texans and we all liked it.

I grew up just south of there. Even in the 1960's everyone knew a bunch of liberal turds lived there. The towns population had a reputation as acting like they were just a bit smarter than the rest of us local hicks.

Even now, Keene gives New Hampshire, a beautiful state, a bad name,

Our city has an annual Pho competition called Pho King Cook-off. The news covers the event but they are not allowed to say the name.

We have a “Pho Kim Long” near us. It makes me chuckle.

Gallup, NM

Are you Fu King Kidding me?

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Originally posted by egregore:

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The restaurant in question—which is located in a public building next to Keene City Hall—will serve Vietnamese food and has been named “Pho Keene Great” by the owner.

How about not giving your business a double entendre name?

How about we let people name their business whatever they want? How about these weenises stop being babies, crying about every stupid thing that offends them? How about when those weenises do bitch and moan, we tell them to consume excrement, and die?

I think the vast majority of pho places have retardedass names, and yeah, they're pretty childish sounding, but regulating stupid business names I don't think is an essential function of government. I'm sure the town has more pressing concerns than whether or not a business has a crude name that makes 12 year old boys giggle, and they should focus on those issues. Otherwise it's just government jacking off.

There is a Pho King restraunt in Austin. Its pretty good. Pho is definitely a soup that I need to learn to make. Buying the chicken feet has been something of an hurdle. In the meantime I will chill and me and girlfriend will enjoy the vietnamese Phuc Long jasmine tea. And the Horny Goatweed tea.


https://www.phuclong.com.vn

Lol, when I was a cop, we got a new restaurant named, What the Pho, in town....we spent EVERY night shift doing security checks on that place...
Me:404 to Wilson”
911:“Wilson, go ahead”
Me:“Security check of What the Pho.”....


It’s the little thing sgs...if you are so offended by stuff like this then you should pull up your big girl panties and take your dolly elsewhere

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
How about these weenises stop being babies, crying about every stupid thing that offends them?

Yep.

And these same fuck heads are offended by

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The sign contained the phrases “big enough to feed a caravan” and “so good it should be illegal”

Makes me want to open a restaurant with a sign "Fuck You If You Don't Want To Eat Here".

What a bunch of pussies.

Oddball for the win.

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Originally posted by oddball:

Makes me want to open a restaurant with a sign "Fuck You If You Don't Want To Eat Here".

I'd eat there.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Lol, when I was a cop, we got a new restaurant named, What the Pho, in town....we spent EVERY night shift doing security checks on that place...
Me:404 to Wilson”
911:“Wilson, go ahead”
Me:“Security check of What the Pho.”....


It’s the little thing sgs...if you are so offended by stuff like this then you should pull up your big girl panties and take your dolly elsewhere

I had no idea there's a pho joint in Wilson. I'll hit it up the next time I'm there.

And on the topic, seriously, every one and their uncle who has a pho restaurant names it something like that. It's how it goes. Puns are funny.

Plus, how many Americans know that it's pronounced "fuh" and not "faux"? Few, I suspect, so the pun is lost more often than not.

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Originally posted by 46and2:

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

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Originally posted by 12131:
Jolie has said that she doesn’t think the name is offensive.

Nor do I. But, I do find it crude and stupid.

How about just giving it a normal name? What a crazy thought.

Because freedom, that's why.

Don't like it, don't go there.

What we need is 100x less worrying about what others do in their homes and businesses.

Crass or not. Their business, their choice.

This is America, FFS.

Yep. What you Pho Keene said.