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“Why not rename the city Flavortown? The new name is twofold. For one, it honors Central Ohio’s proud heritage as a culinary crossroads and one of the nation’s largest test markets for the food industry. Secondly, cheflebrity Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, so naming the city in honor of him would be superior to its current nomenclature,” the petition creator, Tyler Woodbridge, wrote in the campaign’s description.
The Food Network star’s “kind of optimism and charitable work embodies more of what Columbus, Ohio, is about rather than the tarnished legacy of Christopher Columbus,” Woodbridge, a Tennessee resident who spent seven years in Columbus,. But Woodbridge said he would also support renaming the city after an indigenous figure — anything for Columbus to no longer be named after its namesake.
In an update posted on the Change.org page this morning, Woodbridge wrote that he will be delivering the petition to the Columbus City Hall on June 30, with a planned stop to protest the Statue to Columbus, and an open invitation to others to join him. “Cover your face, wear your loudest Guy Fieri style clothing, carry signs, and project your voice,” he urged. “Let’s make a statement that day. Let’s show the anglocentric oligarchy that they made a mistake.
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