Restaurant removes sign over concerns it's offensive

[TexasTowelie]

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire restaurant that's preparing to open has removed a sign advertising its name over concerns that it sounded like profanity.

The name of the Vietnamese restaurant in a public building next to City Hall in Keene is a play on a type of soup, which is spelled P-H-O, but is pronounced "fuh." The restaurant calls itself by the name of the soup, followed by the words "Keene Great."

City Manager Elizabeth Dragon said it's intended to sound like profanity and that owner Isabelle Jolie didn't get permission to hang any sign.

Jolie said she doesn't think the name is offensive.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Imagine if they opened in Kew.

[CentralMass]

2. We have Pho King Good out here.

www.phokinggood.net

[catrose]

4. Ours is just Pho King

I haven't heard any objections.

[oberliner]

3. Probably the best thing that could happen to this restaurant

Good publicity - they are selling t-shirts.

[CentralMass]

5. +1

[Achilleaze]

6. Phee Phi Pho Phum !

[wolfie001]

7. Sofa King bit on SNL

HILARIOUS!!!

[YOHABLO]

8. I'm pretty sure there's a restaurant here metro ATL that is called 'What the PHO' It's Vietnamese

WT P-H-O

[BigmanPigman]

9. I have been aware of Pho since watching Bourdain in 2001.

Since that time a lot of people have become fans of it (largely due to Tony Bourdain going to Vietnam for 17 years and three popular TV shows). My friend, her mom and kids were with me and we went out to get some pho and they pronounced it incorrectly. To explain it to them I said, "It is pronounced like Fu** You". None of them were offended and they knew how to pronounce it immediately.