Posted on 10/01/2015 2:49:25 PM PDT by Lorianne
An East End cafe that serves 120 varieties of breakfast cereal -- along with 30 kinds of milk -- has become a surprising flashpoint for protest in a city increasingly polarized between rich and poor.
The Cereal Killer Cafe has drawn both derision and big crowds since it opened nine months ago, offering a cornucopia of flakes, pops and puffs from about 3 pounds ($4.50) a bowl. On the weekend, it attracted the ire of anti-gentrification protesters, who surrounded the business with flaming torches and scrawled "scum" on its windows as customers sheltered in the basement.
"It is a bit weird," said Gary Keery, who runs the cafe with his brother, Alan. "I don't see us as hateful people - but a lot of people seem to."
Fashionably bearded 33-year-old twins from Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Keery brothers are among the latest wave of migrants to this diverse part of east London. Over the decades European Jews, Bangladeshi Muslims and hipsters from around the world have brought bagel shops and curry restaurants, espresso bars and independent fashion boutiques to Brick Lane and nearby Shoreditch.
It's that diversity that made the Keery brothers choose the area for their breakfast business.
"There's a lot of creative things happening," said Gary Keery. "A cat cafe just opened up around the corner. We just knew that if it was going to work, it would work in Brick Lane."
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When leftists run out of safe things to protest, they protest each other.
Dang. Did I miss something in the article that could explain this to normal people? I can’t read all that well on my phone.
They should be burned out as quickly as possible. Hipsters are worse than lice.
These guys sink venture /risk capital into a new business where they see an opportunity to fill a market need and you want to burn them out. Real nice. You should move to North Korea where you can choose between twigs and roots.
Whats up with protests?? They are running a business.
A breakfast cereal place with 30 types of milk for your cereal does not appeal to me but if the market is there for such a business, so be it.
Yes.
If the choice is between North Korea and hipsters, Dear Leader wins.
Sort of like Muzzies. If they have no handy Christians or Jews to kill, they’ll just as gladly kill each other.
Obviously, these goofballs prefer a system where there is only one kind of cereal - if any - on the shelf.
Not to mention
they are
CREATING JOBS
for lower to middle income employees!!!!
Leftist protests against granola and other Eco-friendly natural “free ranged” grains and vegetarian breakfasts? Who’d have thought! They’ve got way too much free time on their hands. If only their screwed- up politics didn’t destroy so many jobs........
I think they are protesting gentrification.
But the funny part is it is probably their fellow ‘progressives’ they are protesting.
Taking you at your word - the cereal bar is a symbol of gentrification, which is what the protest was against.
:-P
Whoops - didn’t read through the thread before I responded. Lorianne beat me to it in the post above mine.
The leftists of today from around the world seem to have this in common:
They claim to treasure diversity but actually abhor (even hate) anyone or thing that doesn’t strictly conform with their likes and dislikes.
30 kinds of milk?
Whole milk, skim milk and chocolate milk; what am I missing?
Organic?
Just cow’s milk?
Milk of Magnesia?
More chaos in Not So Great Britain.
Give them some Welfare Chex in chocolate milk and that’ll calm them down.
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