Mascot Gets New Name/"Pork Chop" Deemed Offensive

Squishified · Dec 4, 2007

Allentown, PA--Two days after naming it's mascot Pork Chop, the Philadelphia Phillies new Triple A affiliate abruptly dropped the moniker after receiving complaints from Hispanics that it was offensive :

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314901,00.html

SadieMae · Dec 4, 2007

Can someone explain why pork chop is offensive? I've never heard that being offensive to Hispanics.

Paladin · Dec 4, 2007

SadieMae said:
Can someone explain why pork chop is offensive? I've never heard that being offensive to Hispanics.

Not sure why, but I looked it up on urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porkchop

Rino · Dec 4, 2007

Maybe they don't like police helicopters :waitasec:

Filly · Dec 5, 2007

Rino said:
Maybe they don't like police helicopters :waitasec:

No they do not! You know them things can see a pimple on your face from way up there? LOL My Dominican co-worker told me that. My mom is just getting Latino/Hispanic differentiated. Now this! We've got many Portugese neighbors that have moved on our block in the last two years. I'm just going to ask them.

nappy2 · Dec 16, 2007

I think they need to get a life how stupid

reportertype · Dec 17, 2007

SadieMae said:
Can someone explain why pork chop is offensive? I've never heard that being offensive to Hispanics.

Ditto. How odd.

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