"&" displaying as "&amp;" in Views exposed filter So I'm not sure where this happening, but would love to understand &amp; fix it.

The same data is being displayed elsewhere on the website without the above issue, only in this exposed filter (&amp; the content editor form) does it seem to happen.



In the configure filter window the ampersands appear as expected:



The filter is referring to a node reference field:



If I go to edit one of these content types, the ampersands DO NOT appear correctly either (in select list / drop-down box), only in the configure filter window do they appear correctly.

I checked the database &amp; it's saved in "&amp;" form, so somewhere Drupal is converting it...

I could write a javascript snippet to fix it, but I'd like to understand &amp; fix it the "Drupal way"
So I used this jQuery search &amp; replace to fix it client side, I still want to find &amp; fix the issue the proper way &amp; will update this when I do. Here is my resulting jQuery snippet:

(function ($) {
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("form#views-exposed-form-maps-page select#edit-destination option").each(function(){
        var text = $(this).text();
        text = text.replace("&amp;amp;", "&amp;");
        $(this).text(text);
    });
});
}(jQuery));