Muchos Hipocresia

...Keeping with the topic of fattening food from my last post, I came across a brief story that mixes in the issue of immigration and speaking English while ordering a heaping serving of dead cow.

...The editorial staff at the Philadelphia Inquirer is offended at the management of Geno’s Steaks—the other cheese-steak joint in Philly, aside from Pat’s—because Geno’s is taking food orders in English only. It looks as if the Inquirer staff wants the fine folks at Geno’s to learn Spanish in order to become a more diverse cheese-steak establishment.

...In their editorial on the matter, they attempt to make Joe Vento, Geno’s owner, look like a hypocrite because his grandparents were from Italy and spoke limited English. Unfortunately, in an apparent effort to look chic among the politically correct cliques, the Inquirer seems to brush aside Vento’s grandparents’ lack of whining about their language barrier—instead the folks from the old country took the initiative to learn the language of their new home.

...The paper concludes by calling Vento’s policy “boneheaded” and suggests that it might put Geno’s out of business. For some reason I seriously doubt that Geno’s is going to go belly-up because they don’t take a few orders in a language that their employees might not even understand.

...What’s most interesting is to see that for a newspaper which is so supportive of others catering to non-English speaking people, I can’t seem to find a Spanish edition of the Inquirer. What’s this? They don’t accommodate Spanish-speaking customers?

...I’m not sure which is more applicable here: “Do as I say and not as I do”; or “When in Rome, make sure that the Romans change their ways to make you happy.”

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer