Port San Antonio Bans Food Truck For Calling Itself — What?
Port San Antonio, an industrial complex and aerospace facility on the former Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, employs 12,000 people — 12,000 hungry people, come lunchtime every day. Many of the workers there would rather not leave the premises for their meal, so food trucks can do a brisk business.
But one food truck won’t be feeding its specialty, Korean Fried Chicken, or anything else to Port San Antonio employees anytime soon. This truck has been banished from the grounds because of its name, one that Port San Antonio officials deemed “offensive to others.”
The truck’s owner Candie Yoder wanted a name that reflected her specialty dish, a dish she says is not only tasty, but authentic.
“My Korean is based more on what they would get served in Korea, so it’s spicy!” she proudly declares.
So what is this incredibly shocking, X-rated name under which Yoder peddles her five-alarm chicken?
Well, we know that Korean food is Asian, of course. And we know another name for chicken — a male one anyway — is a rooster or, bette yet, a cock. Yes, the name of Yoder’s food truck is “CockAsian.” Get it?
After she found out her CockAsian truck was forbidden to roll on to the 1,900 acre, West San Antonio site, Yoder explained that the truck’s name, believe or not, has “boundless meanings, none of which are sexual or a racial slur. I would be more than happy to discuss the basis for our name with them.”
Port San Antonio contracts with the San Antonio Food Truck Association to bring a rotating repertoire of trucks onto the facility, each for a day or two per week, so workers can only be fed, but will have a variety of offerings to choose from.
“They apparently Googled it to find out (the restaurant’s) menu and website and their truck page is not what came up,” said San Antonio Food Truck Association President Keith Hill.
In fact, what first comes up is — this.
You might not want to click on that link if you are as easily offended as the Port San Antonio brass.
