"Hey, man! I got a song just like that...but different.
'Beaners!.....Beaners!....Beaners!....' "
Posted on 09/24/2007 8:43:05 AM PDT by stratboy
eaner's Coffee, the third-largest retail coffee chain in the Midwest, announced they will change the name of all 79 of their current stores to Biggby Coffee. The company said the reason for the change is because the current name is a disparaging term for Hispanics.
Until I ran across the story about the name change, I thought the moniker was in reference to the coffee beans through which the hot water is filtered. I feel so naïve now.
The announcement of the name change got me to looking around and evaluating who should be next. It's a surefire bet that the politically correct tone of our culture will increase in the coming years, so accusations of racism, sexism, weightism, heightism and ism-ism in the names of our businesses will increase as well. Even the most seemingly innocuous business name may someday be suspect.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I just visited Michigan over the summer and enjoyed Beaner’s great coffee throughout the stay. I was wondering if they every got heat for that name...
Another Yuppie company following the P.C. manipulated liberal line...sigh..who really cares..? I don’t drink coffee, and if I did I wouldn’t give a crap about this company, nor would I go there!
LOL !!
Nam Vet
and Carlos Mencia just shakes his head in bewilderment.
Better not drink your coffee black.
I concur.
The oldest name for a Mexican is in the poem “Hell In Texas” 1830s by ANON.
Last verse is the first name.
HELL IN TEXAS 1830 ANON
Oh, the Devil in hell they say he was chained,
And there for a thousand years he remained;
He neither complained nor did he groan,
But decided he’d start up a hell of his own,
Where he could torment the souls of men
Without being shut in a prison pen;
So he asked the Lord if He had any sand
Left over from making this great land.
The Lord He said, “Yes, I have plenty on hand,
But it’s away down south on the Rio Grande,
And, to tell you the truth, the stuff is so poor
I doubt if ‘twill do for hell any more.”
The Devil went down and looked over the truck,
And he said if it came as a gift he was stuck,
For when he’d examined it carefully and well
He decided the place was too dry for a hell.
But the Lord just to get the stuff off His hands
He promised the Devil He’d water the land,
For he had some old water that was of no use,
A regular bog hole that stunk like the deuce.
So the grant it was made and the deed it was given;
The Lord He returned to His place up in heaven.
The Devil soon saw he had everything needed
To make up a hell and so he proceeded.
He scattered tarantulas over the roads,
Put thorns on the cactus and horns on the toads,
He sprinkled the sands with millions of ants
So the man that sits down must wear soles on his pants.
He lengthened the horns of the Texas steer,
And added an inch to the jack rabbit’s ear;
He put water puppies in all of the lakes,
And under the rocks he put rattlesnakes.
He hung thorns and brambles on all of the trees,
He mixed up the dust with jiggers and fleas;
The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion stings,
The mosquito delights you by buzzing his wings.
The heat in the summer’s a hundred and ten,
Too hot for the Devil and too hot for men;
And all who remained in that climate soon bore
Cuts, bites, stings, and scratches, and blisters galore.
He quickened the buck of the bronco steed,
And poisoned the feet of the centipede;
The wild boar roams in the black chaparral
It’s a hell of a place that we’ve got for a hell.
He planted red pepper beside of the brooks;
The Mexicans use them in all that they cook.
Just dine with a Greaser and then you will shout,
“I’ve hell on the inside as well as the out! “
"Hey, man! I got a song just like that...but different.
'Beaners!.....Beaners!....Beaners!....' "
Biggby Coffee - official coffee of your Washington Redskins! /s
I’m old enough to remember Sambos.
I’m Hispanic. Use the #@$%*& word! Who cares. Only thin-skinned people get offended. Pretty soon no one will be able to say anything.
About six months ago the name was to be changed to “Buku.” Blech. I guess that didn’t poll well so they changed it to Biggby, an equally awful name.
It’s too bad. I like Beaners a LOT better than Starbucks, and this racist-name-blame-game is just stupid.
Next thing you know they’ll give an automatic salmon gutter/canner an insensitive name.
You got a problem with thin skin people?! Dermist!
:P
You don't have to be explicit if the connotations are that bad. Just a little hint will do, McGoo, LOL.
I guess Godfather's Pizza, Inc. will have to change its name now. Can't upseta da Eyetralian guys in da organization.
Leni
While I do drink a cup or two a day, I fail to understand the addiction to all these gourmet coffee joints like Starbucks. I never set foot into a Starbucks and never will.
I remember when five cents would get you a cup of coffee.
There are plenty of franchise coffee shops here in Bratislava. Fortunately, NO Star*ucks :)
It's a derogatory in reference to the fact that poor Mexicans eat a lot of beans. Another food-related Mexican derogatory is "taco-bender".
Here is one source of info on the term "beaner"... Urban Dictionary definition of "beaner"
taco bender... hadn’t heard that one in a while.
a couple of months back i’m grocery shopping with my family. my wife is reading off the list of things we still need to get. she reads out loud “beans.. ok... we need beans”. my 4 year old shouts “YEAH, CUZ DADDY’S A BEANER!!!”
Why? Are the neighborhoods getting taken over? `Frad they might loose a buck? The word Beaner has been around for at least 20 - 30 years that I know of, probably longer. BEANER’S COFFEE was founded in East Lansing, MI in 1995 by Bob Fish and Mary Roszel. So now that they are successful and their website is, of course, “beaners.com” they are all of a sudden massively "culturally sensitive?"
from their website... felt the need to distance ourselves from a term that is considered a disparaging expression. That’s it, nothing more. A big part of our success up to now has been about doing the right thing when the opportunity presents itself. This is one of those opportunities, and we’re happy to make the change.
What a pandering load. They would not do a complete name change unless not doing it meant loosing money. Which is ok but to get all gushy and self-righteous is a load of krap.
Totally asinine! What’s next to go? Woppers? Spic ‘n’ Span? Jig Saws? It’s really a slippery SLOPE!
“Beaner’s Coffee, the third-largest retail coffee chain in the Midwest,
announced they will change the name of all 79 of their current stores
to Biggby Coffee. “
Thanks for the post.
Now I have another addition to my “Don’t Patronize These PC Morons’ Business”
list.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Quick, sombody email them a copy of Beaner's press release and see if they will change their name too!
I guess “WetBlack” is not going to fly either?
If Hooters is for big breasted women, then IHOP is for one legged waitresses.
......Bob
His understanding of “coconut” and mine differ. I had always understood it to be interchangeable with ‘oreo’.
Well, you know what I mean. :-)
The musical “Grease” has to go...
Sigh. Gone are the days when we could stop off at Pepperbelly’s cafe for a snack then go to Sambo’s for some Beaner coffee. finally ending the day watching Allan Arkin in Freebe and the Bean and then Bill Dana as Hose Hemaniez complete with advertisments for the Frito Bandito.
I guess I don’t know any real Mexican haters, because this is a new one on me.
But it appears to be so. Warning: there’s a lot of vile racism in the synonymns and definitions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaner
Does that mean I can never wash... 
my back anymore?
Coffee beans! There are different kinds. A coffee officianado is a beaner. For C-—st’s sake, what kind of a nit wit runs that place? I’m sure glad our culture is safer now!
The lights are on in America, is anyone home? Is there even a single brain cell left between us?
We’re folding like a house of cards. If it isn’t the Muslims, it’s the Mexicans. If it isn’t them, it’s some other group. My town as declared the Armenian Holocaust to be a city holiday. Say what?
Honest to God, everyone wants us to be something we’re not. We’re not a nation that has it’s own culture. We’re supposed to change to whatever the latest flavor of the month is. And it’s getting to be a bit much folks.
Why? Is “rigid” offensive to conservatives?
Yep!!
We are so PC now, especially in Hollywood. It wasn’t always that way: http://imdb.com/title/tt0071521/
I used to have a floppy disc but I have a hard drive now.
If I were a customer of theirs, I wouldn’t be now.
There is still a store in Santa Barbara - I think on Cabrillo.
I'm old enough to remember Sambo's before they PC-ized the murals and menus.
Sambo's in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles was one of my favorite coffee shops, with good food and excellent service. If you ordered coffee with your meal, the waitress would always come by to refill your cup before you could finish.
I believe the original Sambo's in Santa Barbara is still in business.
I think you might have overlooked "jap flaps."
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