It appears that a Queens outlet of the retail chain Strawberry has pulled from shelves a T-shirt with the slogan, "I may not be an Irish girl but I drink like one." Strawberry's spokesperson has yet to comment, but a customer service rep told Jacqueline Quinn, a 45-year-old fashion designer from Queens, that the shirts would be pulled from their Steinway Street location after she complained. "I was so livid," Quinn tells the Daily News:
It's a teenage family store. I shop there with my niece and my 9-year-old daughter. It takes a sterotype and it's basically saying that all Irish people drink. It's always related to alcohol. Why can't they quote Oscar Wilde? Why can't it be something positive?
So true, but the thing is, it's tough to fit some Wilde quotes on a T-shirt. Take this one, for instance: "I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication." Or maybe this one might work: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
