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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I just heard recently from someone that Without Papers is an ethnic slur against Italians used against them back in the day when they were undocumented immigrants to the USA. I finally made that connection to why the racist slang for Italians is WOPs.
He was surprised they would open up a restaurant with that name. To him (as an Italian) it would be akin to opening up Mexican food truck call Spic Tacos or a Chinese restaurant called Slant-Eyed Palace.
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It's more of a backronym, as the term itself isn't based on the phrase without papers. I think it's based on the word guappo? But given that it's a pizza place and the phrase "without papers" is based on the ethnic slur, it's definitely in pretty poor taste. And I'm not particularly surprised that the people who'd open a restaurant with that name are also unhinged antivaxxers.