White customer at Mexican restaurant swears at Spanish-speaking manager

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News


A white woman eating at a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia insulted the manager after she heard him speak Spanish.



Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Feb. 19, 2019, 12:55 PM CST
By Nicole Acevedo

A video showing a white woman swearing at the general manager of a Mexican restaurant in West Virginia for speaking Spanish went viral over the weekend.

“English is our first language, so you need to speak English,” the woman, identified in the video as Jill, screamed at Sergio Budar, the manager. “Get the f--- out of my country.”

One of two videos capturing the incident shows how customers at Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were astonished at the woman’s remarks.

"I am a citizen of this country. And I didn't say this to her, but how am I going to leave if this is my country, too?" Budar, who's from Mexico and has lived in the U.S. for two decades, told Univision in Spanish on Monday. The website Latino Rebels first reported the story on Sunday.



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/white-customer-mexican-restaurant-swears-spanish-speaking-manager-n973191

[Wellstone ruled]

1. You can not fix the Stupid.

[robbob]

2. Yeah, because the last thing you want in a Mexican restaurant...

...is somebody who actually has Mexican heritage. What a racist dumbass!

[sandensea]

5. I once witnessed a similar incident years ago against a Chinese-American man

in a Chinese restaurant.

It takes something special to be a Trumpkin.

[Honeycombe8]

9. I've never heard of that complaint, either.

The height of ...what is that? Hyper-MAGA? Racism? I don't know what that is.

[sandensea]

15. You should have seen the restaurant owner though (the target of said rant). He handled it great.

Very diminutive guy in his 60s; couldn't have been more than 5'. And the bigot was a big, overweight oaf - straight out of casting central for a MAGA rally.

The Chinese man looked him straight in the eye and said: "You go. Now!" And the jerk left.

This was in '94 or '95. The early days of hate radio.

That incident - plus the frequent retelling of Lumpbaugh "bad minority/woman" tales at work - convinced me it wasn't just a fluke.

[Honeycombe8]

16. Wish I would've seen it.

Yeah, those overweight MAGATs love Rush Limpballs...because he's older and overweight and disgusting, too.

I've been to Asian restaurants (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, whatever) a number of times. They are almost always run by Asians. A big DUH. I wouldn't be surprised if they spoke the language...I never paid attention, frankly. Except that the waiters spoke English (if only haltingly in some cases); otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to communicate.

I think it's very normal and sometimes adds to the charm of the restaurant.

Bigots.

[sandensea]

17. +1

As much as they hate ethnic restaurants, you'd think they'd just stay at home at eat their pork rinds and ding dongs.

[Honeycombe8]

19. LOL. nt

[SoCalNative]

35. Or limit their outings

to Cracker Barrel or Chik-fil-A

[sandensea]

43. Ah. Haute Cuisine.

Just like their leader.

[cannabis_flower]

54. Here's the thing..

they love the Mexican food but hate the Mexicans that work there and speak Spanish. They expect to go to a Mexican restaurant and eat the delicious Mexican food and not hear any Spanish, which is ridiculous. I wonder if they went to a Greek, Italian or French restaurant and heard Greek, Italian of French spoken would the be offended, or is just Spanish and Chinese that offends them.

[sandensea]

55. You just described most of the Republicans in Orange County

They love their backyards (and with SoCal weather, who wouldn't); but hate the Mexicans that tend them.

They love their Hacienda-style homes; but hate the Mexican culture that inspired them.

They love Taco Tuesday; but hate the Mexicans that make them.

Qué será.

[Traildogbob]

18. RUSTY Limpballs!

[Honeycombe8]

21. Okay...I'm gonna have to steal that! nt

[Traildogbob]

23. ✌🏼️

[Traildogbob]

24. ✌🏼️

Please do!

[pangaia]

28. Do you know that most "Asian" people owning and working in your

everyday, small, big, large town, small city "Japanese" restaurant are Chinese?
So perhaps it adds to the 'charm," but most of those Chinese folks know nothing about Japanese cuisine. Which is ONE reason what you get is only vaguely Japanese.

Same is true of your local "Chinese'"restaurant, most of which are owned and staffed by Chinese from Fujian Province. And of course the food isn't Chinese either.

If you ever watched, you would notice that the staff in those "Chinese" restaurants almost NEVER eat anything on the menu.. cause it ain't Chinese food..

Korean restaurants are a slightly different story.. for another time...
And Thai, Vietnamese,, etc.....

[Honeycombe8]

37. Well, I'm not sure I always see the owners.

I more often see the staff. But I do know the difference between Chinese and Japanese people, although I can't swear I'd always be able to tell, esp in a restaurant situation. Even so, it's normal to see and hear Asians in Asian restaurants, Indians in Indian restaurants, Spanish people in Mexican restaurants, etc.


Jack Soo - famous actor who portrayed Asians over decades, often Chinese. But he's actually of Japanese ancestry. I liked him a lot.




And THIS....is NOT an Asian at all (Marlon Brando as a Japanese man in an old movie - cringeworthy alert):

[pangaia]

39. How do you tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese people?

[ck4829]

49. LOL, indeed

[mbusby]

3. Wouldn't go over in Houston...

...the majority population is Hispanic, including the police chief.

[Joe Nation]

4. Say Tam-PICO dammit.

Speak English

[Miigwech]

6. I think she is off her meds

Why doesn't she travel outside the USA and watch most of us Americans speaking English in other countries that do not speak English? In fact, most Americans expect folks in foreign lands to respond in English to our queries. Take your choice; 1) lack of meds 2) lack of education, understanding and love for your fellow neighbor. Head scratcher.

[wryter2000]

11. I tried saying a little Italian when I was in Italy

The cab driver answered me in English.

In fact, I overheard two Germans in a restaurant. When the waiter came to them, they spoke to him in English.

[pangaia]

29. LOLOL

I can relate.
I used to speak enough German to get around..

One day I was buying tickets at the Munchen Hauptbahnhoff... for a friend and myself.

" Zwei rundfharten nach Salzbueg, bitte." says I


"When are you returning," says the ticket agent.

[wryter2000]

38. And I tried so hard to make it sound good

I thought he'd just say "si" and drive off.

[DBoon]

27. it used to shock me how many Americans never went to another country

Some huge portion of Americans don't have a passport.

Many are proud to have never been outside the USA

[pangaia]

30. And so many of those types who HAVE been "abrooaad,"

are simply dumb, ignorant, lemming tourists.

Various versions of the Ugly American..

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. I'd guess "abroad" means "Cancun", or some Caribbean cruise. nt

[pangaia]

33. And on a 4000 passenger cruise ship...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. Those things look like floating prisons.

Spend a week jammed into an over-crowded floating hotel? No, thanks.

[alphafemale]

45. Not to mention Norovirus cesspools.

Not my idea of fun.

[jrellis]

47. me2

i once met a young man in Manhattan that had never been north of 14th street

[Inkfreak]

52. why would it be shocking that many can not afford to travel abroad?

that smacks of elitism.

we never went out of the country as a kid. we could never afford it. we still had fun vacations. and learned a great deal visiting many historic sites right here in ny. i never left the country till i joined the army.

[MineralMan]

7. I always hope that someone in a Mexican restaurant speaks Spanish.

At least there's a chance of authenticity in that case. In West Virginia, I'm not sure, though.

Good for the other patrons, though. They weren't having any of her nonsense.

[Dave Starsky]

22. Me, too. It's another opportunity to try to use mi Espaol...

Without being embarrassed. I am so bad at foreign languages, but I love learning them, and I try to speak in other languages whenever I can. I am always afraid that I will look like an idiot to native speakers, or that I will say something insulting inadvertently.

[MineralMan]

36. I'm almost fluent in Spanish.

I learned from friends in elementary school. So, living in Minnesota, it sometimes surprises people. I'm also conversational in French and Russian. It's been useful at times, helping tourists here.

[alphafemale]

46. Coastal SC and lucky enough to have many ethnic restaurants.

I love challenging my palate.

There are people that go to the same restaurant and will order the same dish for 30 years.

That is so sad to me.

[Honeycombe8]

8. OMG. For speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant?

That's a new one.

I hope she was escorted out. Quickly.

[wryter2000]

12. And asked never to return

What an embarrassment these people are.

[Honeycombe8]

14. Good. How insulting to the restaurant owners and workers.

Where does she get off? Such an embarrassment, you're right.

[Traildogbob]

20. Ass trumpanzees.

I hope they served her chihuahua road kill, marinated in armadillo urin.

[Honeycombe8]

10. She'd better not make that complaint in an Italian restaurant in NYC.

On second thought, maybe she should.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. It's all over, and it's disheartening. I was working the election in November...

when a woman in a MAGA hat was standing in line complaining about the signs in Spanish.

She claimed that English-only was in the Constitution as our national language. She did not know wearing a MAGA hat within a 100 feet of a polling place was illegal.

She was laughed at by others in the line and left. At least no one publicly agreed with her.

[zipplewrath]

25. She sounds hammered

I wonder what she had to drink before she got there. Probably started first thing in the morning.

[DBoon]

26. I bet she chugged a Corona

Followed with shots of tequila

[tanyev]

31. "Get the f--- out of my restaurant" would have been a perfectly appropriate response.

[sinkingfeeling]

40. Did the manager tell her to "get the f--- out of his restaurant and to

never come back"?

[CTAtheist]

41. "I was raped by illegal aliens"

Wow, that must have been the 1st rape in history where the victim asked for their rapists' birth certificate and the rapists couldn't produce it.

/sarcasm

[Stuart G]

42. I guess stupid pills have spread to West Virgina......I thought all of them were at the White House.

Maybe they get up and walk around and when you walk in somewhere, they materialize and you swallow them by mistake...This lady is so fucking stupid. And Stupid pills go to Stupid People which this lady is. Now, why is this stupid person going into a Mexican Restaurant in the first place?

...This country is diverse. It is part of the deal. They come from everywhere: here and there and everywhere. The people that come here speak all kinds of languages. My grandparents spoke very little English. They spoke Yiddish. When they came here in 1910, there were communities (neighborhoods) that spoke Yiddish. Just like there are communities that speak Spanish. After time, everyone learns English at their own pace...

...Three doors down from me, there are people from Syria. They speak another language. It is ok. They own the place, and often they speak English. Across the way there is a couple from an island 500 miles east of South Africa. I don't recall the name. Now, that couple speaks perfect English, but I know they speak another language too. We have Korean people in our neighborhood and they speak another language.

I guess the lady didn't understand what the U.S.A is..and its history. Oh, I used to teach history, but that lady sounds too dumb to be a student of mine. I don't think she would learn much with an attitude like she has..

[Takket]

44. Magats: The people outraged to find someone speaking Spanish in a Mexican restaurant

you can't make this shit up

[sfwriter]

48. Deplorable is as deplorable does.

[ck4829]

50. First world problems right there

[BeyondGeography]

51. Plenty of good people in that video

They stood up to her. She was severely outnumbered.

[mainer]

53. That poor guy who was with her, how did he end up escorting her?

They look about the same age. Maybe she's his sister or a coworker. Either way, he seemed really embarrassed. i felt sorry for him.