Taco Bell Corporate Owner's New Banh Shop Near SMU Has Commie Logo. You Expected Tasteful?

[TexasTowelie]

Dallas -- Banh Shop's theme is apparently as red as the tomato slabs on their overpriced sandwiches. The fast food joint, owned by the Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands, opened three days ago as a pilot restaurant near SMU. But visitors may have noticed more than awkward guacamole and sour cream on their sandwiches. Looking around, the place is rife with underhanded Vietnam War references.

First, visitors are greeted by the shop's red, five-pointed star logo, the symbol for communism. Their motto is "Saigon Street Food" -- which sounds catchier than Ho Chi Minh City Street Food, but gives the creeping impression that the red star, looming overbearingly above the motto, might soon encroach on former Saigon. And there's the overpoweringly red and black website, which lists sandwich choices such as "Grilled Steak," "Grilled Tofu," "Grilled Chicken Breast," "Grilled Pork Meatball," and then, oddly, "The American."

And visitors so far are not happy. The shop's Facebook page has exploded with furious commenters, many of them Vietnamese-American. On the plus side, the Dallas store is just the pilot run. Although the second Banh Shop is slated to open at DFW later this month, the company still has time to turn around the negative image.

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[delrem]

1. But I'll bet the "The American" was quite some sandwich.

OK, that's weird.

But is it weirder than that Americans to this day don't feel even a twinge of guilt over the Vietnam war?

[blkmusclmachine]

3. We just keep LOOKING FORWARD. No remorse, no guilt, no lessons learned. That's the ticket!

[Warpy]

2. I used to shop at the Red Star Market in N. Cambridge, Mass.

I also prefer Red Star Yeast to Fleischman's.

It's a red star, not a hammer and sickle.

Why does Dallas keep growin 'em so stoopid?

[djean111]

4. My thoughts exactly.

Probably makes us both Putinistas now.

[hobbit709]

5. So Taco Bell wants to do to Vietnamese food what it did to Mexican food?