Wednesday, April 4, 2007
About the Hooters Controversy
Some people in the Troy area are objecting to the new Hooters restaurant on Big Beaver Road, which is having trouble getting a liquor license. Presumably their objection is that a slang version of the restaurant's name is an advertisement for the waitress's breasts. It is not referring to their breast size, or it would be called "Big Hooters". Now we do have Big Boy restaurants, but the name refers to the mascot, (who seems to have lost weight over the years). So one solution would be for Hooters to adopt the Hoot Owl as a mascot. Another would be to switch to a French version of the name, Tetons. After all, Americans are proud of the Teton mountain range, whose tallest mountain is the Grand Teton, and not even John Ashcroft would have dared to cover it when he was Attorney-General, as he did a statue in his office.Part of the objection is that Big Beaver Road is the main thoroughfare in Troy, and that it should not be sullied by crude restaurant names. But what about the slang version of "Big Beaver" itself? Would we want Hooters to change its name to Beavers? So we had better think about changing the name of the road while we are at it. How about Big Boxes, referring to all the stores located on it. Certainly the objection can't be to what is going on INSIDE the restaurant. Fancy hotels are welcomed in Troy, even though they peddle pornographic movies on their guestroom televisions. And surely there would be little objection to having a Casino on Big Beaver Road, regardless of its name, and we know what the score is in there!
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