re: Restaurants Changing the Potentially Offensive Names of Menu Items

A guy I knew in college was the head bartender/manager at a place in Cambridge, MA called the Friendly Toast. Apparently one of the drinks on the menu was called 'strange fruit,' which incidentally is also the name of a song by Billie Holiday about slaves being lynched. One of the local SJWs attending Harvard came in and was apparently the first person in who knows how many years to make a connection between the drink and the song. Inevitably, she ended up waging a social media jihad against the place for being racist (because they didn't know it shared the name with an obscure song from 60 years ago). Never mind that it's Harvard and who knows how many left wings academics and minorities came in and committed microaggressions by not recognizing the 'offensive' origins of this drink, but I digress. This non story picked up steam from all the local news outlets and my old classmate ended up having to quit. Absolutely disgusting.