Worked with a dude who once talked fondly of the spaghetti westerns of his youth among a group of colleagues. He beamed, “You know why they were called ‘spaghetti westerns’? Because they were sponsored by Ragu spaghetti sauce!”
One of the others in the group gently explained it was because they were made in Italy and that there were racist undertones in that name. All the color drained from his face and he got quiet for quite a while. I felt bad that we had witnessed the death of the joy he had in that memory. I hope he managed to recover eventually.
Worked with a dude who once talked fondly of the spaghetti westerns of his youth among a group of colleagues. He beamed, “You know why they were called ‘spaghetti westerns’? Because they were sponsored by Ragu spaghetti sauce!”
One of the others in the group gently explained it was because they were made in Italy and that there were racist undertones in that name. All the color drained from his face and he got quiet for quite a while. I felt bad that we had witnessed the death of the joy he had in that memory. I hope he managed to recover eventually.