Don't get me wrong, I love Chef Boyardee canned spaghetti and meatballs as much as the next person, and it would be wild if he got his own statue! However, this is already a Chef Boyardee statue in Nebraska outside of the former headquarters of ConAgra Foods.
There's an online petition that's going around that's urging the Cleveland City Council to replace a statue of Christopher Columbus with a statue of Chef Boyardee, according to Delish. The online petition has earned more than 2,500 signatures in support of it! The petition is called "Replace the statue of Christopher Columbus in Little Italy with Chef Boyardee."
The petition reads, "If Italian-Americans in Cleveland want to celebrate one of their own, they need look no further than the iconic Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, AKA Chef Boyardee. Born in Piacenza, Ettore immigrated to the U.S. at age 16 in 1914. He eventually moved to Cleveland, where he opened a restaurant, Il Giardino d'Italia, that was so popular people asked him to bottle his sauce for them. It's time for Cleveland to remove its statue to a genocidal sociopath with a bowl cut and erect a statue to an immigrant success story who enriched our community with his food and iconic mustache."