According to Wikipedia, White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas by Walter A. Anderson (a cook) and Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram (insurance man). Responding to the public's queasiness about eating ground beef following Upton Sinclair's muckraking classic, The Jungle, they wanted to "invoke a feeling of cleanliness." Thus they made sure "their restaurants were small buildings with porcelain enamel or steel exteriors, stainless steel interiors, and employees outfitted with spotless uniforms"--to draw contrast with those restaurants that outfitted their employees in spotted uniforms, I suppose.
How much better would it be if you had called it "Off the BQEaten Pathursday"?
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"Off the BQEaten Cardvaark PaThursday" please!
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Some readers may not be familiar with the Port Authority Trans Hudson's (PATH) shortlived program from the mid to late 1980s, PATHursdays. On Thursdays, PATH workers would set up booths at the 33rd St. (and maybe others) and solicit suggestions on how the PATH could be improved. One of my brothers, visiting from college, wrote "Change your name!" He received a polite thank you note to let him know his suggestion would be considered. Apparently, they decided to stick with PATH(etic).
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