Dallas-based pizza chain under fire for taking pesos

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation's debate over immigrants.

"This is the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico," one e-mail read. "Quit catering to the damn illegal Mexicans," demanded another.

Dallas-based Pizza Patron said it was not trying to inject itself into a larger political debate about illegal immigration when it posted signs this week saying "Aceptamos pesos" — or "We accept pesos" — at its 59 stores across Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and California.

Pizza Patron spokesman Andy Gamm said the company was just trying to sell more pizza to its customers, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic.

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Oh, for crying out loud! People are just fucking nuts on this illegal immigrant shit. Look, this company can do this. There are no laws against it, and in no way can this be construed as any kind of threat to the United States or the American way of life, whatever that is. Christ, I'm getting really sick of these xenophobic morons pulling out of their asses lunatic rules for how people are supposed to be American: there is no one way to be an American! If there is any one culturally unifying tenet in this country, it is the melding of the various cultures that have found outposts here--generally, these racist xenophobes push some kind of Anglo heritage as being the only acceptable form of cultural expression, but, obviously, such a stance is blatantly unAmerican, if such a thing even really exists.

And now, I'm hungry for some Mexican pizza! It's funny: only the US could give birth to such culturally hybridized food. Fucking racist assholes.

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