"The Pink Taco"

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Is it that people think dirty or that certain words and phrases have become common euphamisms?

I don't know. Naughty is fun but then the naughty police come in and the word becomes "bad".

[innerSpaceman]

Wow, there's nothing inuendo about the Pink Taco in Vegas, other than its name I suppose (but I think that's a stretch). Such great, great food and knock-you-down-if-you-knock-em-down drinks. I never associated the place with any inuendo. Just a name, folks. Tell the peeps in Phoenix to chill.

[€uroMeinke]

I just think the name fails in it's cleverness, coming across more juvenile than sophisticated - Pink Taco, Hooters, Big Dicks, they're all kinda something your seven-year old would giggle over.

On the other hand I love the club name Liquid Kitty, though it is also a play aon certain sexual euphamisms

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Is it that people think dirty or that certain words and phrases have become common euphamisms?

I think it's a combination of both, but it's all in the realm of the individual as to whether it's a bad thing. I think these euphamisms are common enough that even the cleanest of minds can pick up on a great extent of the verbage. Verbage is just that, though... nothing but a bunch of words we assign a personal meaning to.

I just think it's funny. But I think most things are funny.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Tell the peeps in Phoenix to chill.

It's the mayor of Scottsdale. If she hadn't made such a big deal over it I'd never have heard of it.

[Not Afraid]

I have never even used the phrase "pink taco" and would think nothing of it if the Mayor of Scotsdale hadn't revealed her own kinky nature.

[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).

[Not Afraid]

I guess I must live a sheltered life.

[blueerica]

I don't think the folks who started The Pink Taco bar/restaurant have denied it's reference to female bits and pieces...

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by blueerica

I don't think the folks who started The Pink Taco bar/restaurant have denied it's reference to female bits and pieces...

"(The name) came out of a dish (that's on the menu), but it's tongue-in-cheek. It was amusing, catchy," Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton said. "You've got to stand out from the rest of the crowd."

Link.