"The Pink Taco"

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Has our society really become even more puritan than before? Words don't just become dirty once they're been used as a "dirty" euphemism.

Yes, but has Pink Taco ever been anything but that euphamism? I honestly don't know and maybe the bar started it all, but if you search the phrase you don't find anything that isn't either a reference to the "naughty" meaning or the restaurant in Vegas (I have no idea and will never find out since you'll never find me in a place with "Planet Hollywood" or "Hard Rock" over the door).

So is this not more like a case of someone naming a bar "Vagina" and saying "Hey, you can't think we were talking about actual vaginas we were just using a word without any meaning."

There are certainly cases like Bob's Big Boy and Juicy Lucy (at least once, in D.C., these two restaurants are next door to each other) where euphamistic meanings have accumulated and others like Hooters and Big Richards where they pretend to have no idea what you're talking about. I assume Pink Taco to be in the latter category.

That doesn't mean I really care if they have that name and if the food is good enough (Lani and I will stop for wings at the local Hooters every once in a while) I'll still go in. And it could be worse, I used to know a guy who referred to it as the furry tuna-fish taco. This was also the guy in the dorm who kept a two-liter soda bottle under his bed so that he wouldn't have to make the 8-foot trek to the common bathroom (and didn't feel it needed to be disposed of until full).