Reply #10: Perhaps, but this story was also in the Dallas paper on Dec 8th [View All]

[rainbow4321]

Focusing more on the nursing profession backlash than the food aspect of it all. Of course, what they don't add is that those people who are mocking nurses with their outfits and those who are there enjoying the look of the insulting outfits may end up at the sharp end of a nurse's needle in their local cardiac unit after they eat some of the restaurants burgers. I would especiallly love to get my hands on the guy who called us "battle axes who change bedpans for a living".

Yes, I am a nurse. And we are here to SAVE people's asses not kiss them. Florence Nightingale is probably turning over in her grave.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/120906dntexnurses.24fb04a.html

Basso shrugs off Summers' complaints, and refers to her and her supporters as prudes, cranks and lunatics.

"If anything, I think it glorifies nurses to be thought of as a physically attractive and desirable individual," Basso said. "There's a Faye Dunaway, Florence Nightingale hipness to it. Nobody wants to think of themselves as some old battle ax who changes bedpans for a living