By Kolten Parker, My San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO — What’s in a name?
CockAsian food truck. Photo from Urbanspoon.
To the owner of local food truck CockAsian, it’s a clever spin on the Korean Fried Chicken that is the truck’s most popular dish. But for Port San Antonio officials, it’s an offensive and risqué name for a restaurant on wheels that is now banned from the 1,900-acre site in West San Antonio.
Candie Yoder, 40, who opened the food truck in November, said the name has “boundless meanings, none of which are sexual or a racial slur… I would be more than happy to discuss the basis for our name with them.”
But Port San Antonio officials didn’t see it that way, said Keith Hill, president of the San Antonio Food Truck Association, which coordinates food truck scheduling with large employers such as the port.
“They apparently Googled it to find out (the restaurant’s) menu and website and their truck page is not what came up,” Hill said, who admitted he knew the name would be controversial when Yoder opened the restaurant.
A quick Google search shows the website UrbanDictionary.com, which is known for having over-the-top and vulgar definitions for words and phrases, is the top hit on the term.
Read the full story by Kolten Parker from My San Antonio.
