Hey honey, let's go out for dinner instead. Here's one. Are you up for some African Liberian bush meat?
Posted on 10/27/2014 10:20:26 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Concern over Ebola has forced a Minnesota restaurant owner who serves African food to cover up part of her sign and reconsider her Liberian-themed menu.
Kellita Whisnant has owned Mama Ti's African Kitchen in Brooklyn Park, Minn. for three years. Now that confirmed cases of Ebola have reached U.S. soil, she says business is down by about 50 percent.
“This African name that brought people in before, is now hurting me," Whisnant told Minneapolis-St.Paul's KMSP Fox9 . "We get the jokes, the ridicule."
Amid declining sales—and a customer flat out asking her if the restaurant had Ebola—Whisnant covered up the word “African” on her restaurant's outdoor sign. “Just putting that tape up there triggered emotions that I keep down, but that really hurt,” a teary Whisnant told KMSP.
But she worries the simple cosmetic change may not be enough to get customers back in her store. She has posted a notice in Mama Ti's to assure customers that her suppliers are local, despite the Liberian-themed menu. Yet with flagging sales, Whisnant is also considering changing the menu entirely.
“What could I bring in at this point to satisfy your fear,” Whisnant questions. “Will you come in and eat out of this restaurant if I sell Philly cheese? If I do jumbo wings and fries?”
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Infectious Disease Division has started its own campaign to dispel myths about the spread of Ebola, which so far has no confirmed cases in the Midwest.
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Hey honey, let's go out for dinner instead. Here's one. Are you up for some African Liberian bush meat?
that’s rasiss !!!
I would recommend they change to a Pakistani theme.
franken ... but no democRATs are involved ... Not!
Bats are off the menu? Dat be rasiss!
“Forced?”
Nashville has that Ethiopian restaurant. I’ve never eaten there, but when I think about what Ethiopian food must be like, I imagine very very small servings.
Mmmmmm......African food.......
Daze ‘em America! Tell them the Truth!
If you like Indian food, you most likely would like Ethiopian food.
If Ebola were free this wouldn’t have happened.
Or we could just pick up a couple of homo burgers.
And yet people still go to Chinese restaurants.
This restaurant is in Madrid. I wonder if they have been forced to change its name.
I have had Ethiopian food at a restaurant in Cambridge MA, back in the 80's. It was OK - and yes very similar to Indian food. I actually at antelope at a restaurant in Nairobi. That was 20 years ago.
I wouldn't touch anything from Africa right now.
Baff..its whats for dinner...
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