NYC Pizzeria’s ‘Pic-A-Nika’ Topped With Southern-Fried Chicken And Watermelon

Pizza by Certé in Manhattan has apologized for creating a racist pizza but will not remove it from the menu because it’s a crowd favorite, reports Raw Story.

The “Pic-a-Nika” pizza is topped with “Southern fried chicken, sea-salted watermelon, arugula, goat cheese, ricotta and bleu cheese on a sunflower seed crust.”

Criticism rightfully exploded online, with many people mentioned the old urban legend that the word “picnic” originated from the term “pick-a-ni**er.” As legend goes, white people would make an event out of “picking a ni**er” to lynch.

According to Victor Guzman, the manager of Pizza by Certé, the name was meant to play on how Italians would say the word.

Right. They had no idea that a pizza named “Pic-a-Nika” — topped with fried chicken and watermelon — was racist.

We don’t believe them; they need more people.

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Rusha said:

I want to try that pizza ... with ranch dipping sauce on the side and minus the watermelon.

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Angel4Truth said:

NYC Pizzeria’s ‘Pic-A-Nika’ Topped With Southern-Fried Chicken And Watermelon

What an idiot liberal reporter who makes things up and doesn't check out facts, a quick search online even shows where the word picnic comes from and originated in the 1600s in France and it had nothing to do with anyone black, but was about potluck, bringing your own wine, etc.

Too bad most people eat fried chicken and watermelon at picnics in the summer in the US.

The comments on the article also show the lemmings in tow who don't care about little things called facts.

Whats next, should we ban fried chicken and watermelon? Or better yet, ban idiot liberal reporters who want to incite a race war so bad that they make things up? Its now a racist thing to eat chicken and watermelon at a picnic?

Seems they are the real racists, they see it in everything and look for it everywhere.

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Quetzal said:

Um, really? I mean, from a strictly technical stand point you might be right, but come on. Say the phrase out loud and then combine that with the ingredients, it is inappropriate.

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Quetzal said:

Um, really? I mean, from a strictly technical stand point you might be right, but come on. Say the phrase out loud and then combine that with the ingredients, it is inappropriate.

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Angel4Truth said:

I did and its how an italian would say it, like he said. It doesnt detract either from the fact that most people eat watermelon and fried chicken at a picnic, nor from his lie that the word picnic came from racism, the word existed long before America did.

The original word is pique-nique a french word and had nothing to do with racism.

Do you think eating watermelon and chicken at a picnic is racist? Or are you looking for 'hidden' racism too?

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Quetzal said:

My position is simple, I can see why people might be offended by it.

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Quetzal said:

Um, really? I mean, from a strictly technical stand point you might be right, but come on. Say the phrase out loud and then combine that with the ingredients, it is inappropriate.

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HisServant said:

Southern Fried Chicken and Watermelon are two of my favorite foods.. and I am white as a ghost!

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Knight said:

I think you are projecting.

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Quetzal said:

My position is simple and straight forward. You can think whatever you want.

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Angel4Truth said:

You really want the position that a lie is ok if it furthers your cause? The reporter lied in that article.

Do you think eating watermelon and chicken together is racist, or if its a white person eating it, its racist then?

How is food racist?

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Quetzal said:

It isn't. My problem is with the name of the product. It sounds close to a racial slur even if that wasn't the intent.

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Angel4Truth said:

No, it doesn't, unless you believe the lie the reporter said of the name and you are predisposed to see racism in everything.

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Quetzal said:

I appreciate your textbook example of a false dilemma fallacy.

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