Outrage over an insensitive pun used in a headline about a dessert company owned by a Cambodian American has forced the apology from a food blog editor, according to a post by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.
The headline in phoodie.info read “Lunch Break: Pol Pot Stickers Edition.”
Annie Hitchens, owner of Koliyan, wrote the following response on Facebook.
Phoodie.info editor Adam Brodsky promptly issued an apology and removed the post.
You can read his apology and Hitchen’s response to the apology in the posting from the AAJA Philadelphia Chapter.
