Misguided and borderline xenophobic Mission residents, fooling themselves and others into the grand illusion that they're caring and creative ilk, recently NIMBY'd out all over their new surroundings. Again. This time it had to do with the superbly-titled Gunz & Bunz sandwich shop on 24th and Folsom. The name, derived from a popular fast-food chain in Beirut called Buns and Guns, offended a smattering of full-diaper neighbors scared about violence. Neighbors who threatened the owner to change the sign, or else. Neighbors who never bothered to ask the owner about the name.

"I just thought it sounded like a sexy name," says owner Mike Jweinat. "They said that they wouldn’t come here and would take photographs and tell others not to come either," he says of some neighbors. So, begrudgingly, he's changed the name back to Mike's Deli."

Meanwhile, affected names like "Mission ____" continue unabated. Cupcakes and white picket fences for everyone.

[Grub]
[Mission Local]