UPDATE: Taco Bell Corporate Owner's Banh Shop Near SMU Has Won't Have Commie Logo

Pretty great response from YUM, involving the complainant(s) in approving a new logo. Hat-in-hand is rare for a big corporation.

You do know Yum Brands fired Mike Rawlings don't you?

http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/news/rawlings-out-hearl-in-as-pizza-hut-president/

The power of social media.  This would have taken months, if at all, before the age of Facebook, Twitter and Blogs.  Now on to the next step--don't do stupid shit like this in the first place!

Meh. Roll n' Go isn't that far. By the same respect, neither is Richardson.

not that i'd go for some fast food version of something when i can get the real stuff but at least they named it after Saigon instead of it's current name. there's a good chance they are that stupid and didn't realize what the red star was about....or maybe they're trying to outdo urban outfitters? 

"And there's the Saigon whore that bit my nose off!"

'Look, we get that Vietnam is a communist nation..'

The commie thing kind of fizzled out.

'Vietnam has made a shift from a highly centralized planned economy to a socialist-oriented market economy which use both directive and indicative planning (see Five-Year Plans of Vietnam). Over that period, the economy has experienced rapid growth. Nowadays, Vietnam is in a period of being integrated into the global economy. Almost all Vietnamese enterprises are small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Vietnam has become a leading agricultural exporter and served as an attractive destination for foreign investment in Southeast Asia. As the planned economy of Vietnam lost the momentum for productivity and sustainable growth, like most of the Communist economies in the world after the Cold War period, nowadays the economy of Vietnam relies largely on foreign direct investment to attract the capital from overseas to support its continual economic rigorousness.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Vietnam

Jane Fonda gives it two thumbs up!

Sign the petition led by the President of the Vietnamese-American Community of Greater Dallas. This will be sent to their public affairs office.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/yum-brands-banh-shop-logo-change

the important question....is the beer cold?

@bvckvs but would you feel the same way if people were complaining about a business that displayed the swastika?
http://vietfacts.com/VF_RECamp/hidden-horrors-of-vietnams-re%5B1%5D.htm

"The review found:

• An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials.

• 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe.

• Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed.

• Prisoners were incarcerated for as long as 17 years, according to the U.S. Department of State, with most terms ranging from three to 10 years.

• At least 150 re-education prisons were built after Saigon fell 26 years ago.

• One in three South Vietnamese families had a relative in a re-education camp.

@dingo you're absolutely right. Their economy has shifted to a socialist/capitalist type economy, But their GOVERNMENT is still communist. Power is still abused, and the people still don't have the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. This is the same government that brutalized their own people in re-education camps (which could be why they're "over it?")

China went from a centrally planned economy to a more socialist/capitalist economy as well, but their communist government is still as controlling over its population as ever. You're talking about money. We're talking about people.

You know, 50 years from now. I'll tell people to get over 9/11. I'm sure that'll go over well...

@nguyenalbert @dingo  you are correct and wise. there are many who believed 911 to be just a taste of long over due payback - some of those live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

@bvckvs @dingo do you not remember the millions slaughtered or are their lives merely the cost of doing business? 

@bvckvs @dingo so what about the nazis bashers?
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The review found:

• An estimated 1 million people were imprisoned without formal charges or trials.

• 165,000 people died in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's re-education camps, according to published academic studies in the United States and Europe.

• Thousands were abused or tortured: their hands and legs shackled in painful positions for months, their skin slashed by bamboo canes studded with thorns, their veins injected with poisonous chemicals, their spirits broken with stories about relatives being killed.

• Prisoners were incarcerated for as long as 17 years, according to the U.S. Department of State, with most terms ranging from three to 10 years.

• At least 150 re-education prisons were built after Saigon fell 26 years ago.

• One in three South Vietnamese families had a relative in a re-education camp.

They'll start putting Doritos in the Pho within a year.

@bmarvel @pak152  pretty funny