Racially Insensitive Menu Item At Lennie’s Hoagies Sparking Outrage In Philadelphia’s Asian American Community

By Natasha Brown, CBS Philadelphia

February 21, 2021

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A menu item at a Roxborough restaurant is sparking outrage in the Asian American community. A mac and cheese dish at Lennie’s Hoagies is titled COVID Mac, and it’s described as homemade mac and cheese topped with Chinese chili garlic sauce.

“One of our followers, Tommy, had sent something over and said, ‘Hey, this is from Philly, have you heard anything about it?’ I said no but this is awful,” Jerry Won said.

A flurry of complaints about the racially insensitive menu label was brought to the attention of Won, who runs an Asian American-focused media company in Los Angeles.

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