How can you walk into a Tex Mex restaurant and bitch because you get a Latino server?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

I was diving into my Queso tonight at dinner when this party of three was seated next to us. They were apparently sharing our server. I heard the mean looking old woman go, "I can't believe there's one Beaner waiter in this place and we had to get him." First of all, he was the best server we've had in a while and he was really sweet. Who cares how dark his skin was? What is wrong with people?!
Duckie

[kedrys]

1. Head...exploding...

Some people should just be shot.

[Deja Q]

8. Wow, and people tell me nobody advocates violence around here.

:crazy:

Quite. The racist comment was DUMB. But your comment was dumber.

[tammywammy]

2. Did he actually say "beaner?"

That's strange, I haven't heard that word in years.

And, no you can't complain. That's like going to a Chinese restaurant and complaining because you have the Asian waiter.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. I swear to God, she said Beaner.

And he was so nice to her. We even tipped him extra because of it. He didn't hear it, but I knew he wasn't going to be getting shit from them.
Duckie

[tammywammy]

6. I think I feel a little miffed if I'm eating Tex-Mex

and my waiter is white. That's just not right.

Plus, I like the hole in the wall places, where everyone basically only speaks Spanish.

[madeline_con]

22. I SO would have tried to tell him. n/t

[xmas74]

15. I've heard it said in Missouri

(where I live right now) and it isn't by the older folk, either.

I tend to hear it quite a bit from the college kids and the airmen in my town, along with much worse.

[ChoralScholar]

17. I think the resurgence in the term is partially

because Carlos Mencia uses it quite a bit (I think...).

He's not even from Mexico himself, so whatever...

[xmas74]

25. Maybe

or it could be because I live near a number of hicks and overall pieces of trash.

Nasty words never go out of style in the trash community.

[bullwinkle428]

19. I hear the term get tossed out every so often in Iowa -

we have a significant Latino population, so the racists like to "stretch their vocabulary" and use all the terminology they're proud of... :puke:

[fizzgig]

3. they're asshats who think they're entitled to...whatever, i guess

i don't get that reasoning either but people like that piss me off

[Karenina]

4. It's the Amurikkkan way!!!

(Mindestens ein teil davon.)

[XemaSab]

7. If I went into a Tex-Mex place

and the waiter was white, I'd probably expect mediocre food. :P

[Deja Q]

9. Haven't you seen the commercials? It's called "West-Mex" now.

At least, according to the one chain; I think it's "Taco John's"...

[xmas74]

14. They still have Taco John's?

I used to live off of that place. Two weekends a month they had a "Feeding Frenzy"-4 tacos or 4 bean burritos for one dollar.

Not authentic by any means but much better than Taco Bell and they had really cheap meal platters.

[UTUSN]

10. I'd never heard the word "beaner" until that comedian, whassisname

DUers don't like him. I sort of tolerate him. It's sort of a "mainstream" thingy going on. Like, I thoroughly dislike the George LOPEZ show and the picture it does on Hispanics. Anyway, try driving through a Taco Bell and asking for a taco.

[flvegan]

11. The racist had me at "beaner" tbh.

Probably go for Jamaican and use the...you know...word.

[skygazer]

12. Beaner? Oh, my aching ass....

I hope he spit in their food. :nuke:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. He was so nice.

He never heard them say it, but she had such a pickle face, and the guys looked like they were treading on egg shells around her.
Duckie

[AlCzervik]

16. Beaner? he's probably way too good a person to huck up a big one into her food.

i'm not.

[TheMightyFavog]

18. Owwwww... This makes my brain hurt worse than...

The one time the notoriously right-wing Catholic Fundie columnist for our weekly paper said that Mercury was dangerous to humans "because it has so much Lead in it."

[krispos42]

24. Ooch....

:banghead:

[Redstone]

20. The fuck? That's just inexplicable, and unexcusable.

Redstone

[madeline_con]

21. What an asshole! n/t

[Skittles]

23. trust me

she is the kind of gal who ends up with "extra ingredients" in her food

[pitohui]

26. alzheimer's

i'm not kidding, there was a time when the lady wasn't old and she went into a tex/mex or mexican restaurant expecting and desiring service from an actual authentic mexican, unfortunately something happens to a lot of people's brain as they age -- her family just remembers she used to like the place and so that's where they took her and now this shite

you'd be amazed at the stupid unbelievable crap my grandma did when she was in prodromal stage of alzheimer's and no one knew or suspected she had it, we just all thought she was an asshole

or think of ronald reagan, unfortunately, you are still able to walk and talk but your judgment and ability to be kind is already gone, this is the evil of this disease, if you just collapsed all at once it would be better

[judaspriestess]

27. what a motherfucking idiot

IMO

This coming from a Tex-Mex Princess :)