Bacon Wars: Why Did the Sneakers Bistro Incident Go Viral?

Seven Days Vermont ^ | 8/29/14 | Mark Davis

[raccoonradio]

Pic below shows the window of Sneakers Bistro in Winooski VT (ate there once, an ordinary omelette). This small city is next to Burlington and there are nice waterfalls nearby. Some old mills have been converted to retail and there's upscale condos and hotels nearby. Some hip restaurants (I think one is called Common Ground) as well as your basic pizza joint, Donny's NY Pizza (which invites customers to "See all the Yankees Games Here" but I'm sure that they'll still let you in if you're a Red Sox fan and want to spend money). Rest of town seems fairly middle class to me.

People rave about their food on Yelp--again, my omelette was so-so but some people do like them. One spotlight review on Yelp mentions the Canadian bacon...bacon? ---BACON???--- You mean they didn't take it off their menu out of respect for that ONE person (who may or may not have even been into the place) who complained?

[untenured]

"She's hurting," said Decarreau, who has been in touch with the woman. "She didn't realize this is what would happen. If there's a lesson, it's that [online forums] are not the way to deliver a message to an individual or agency. You need to reach out directly to people."

The lesson I would've drawn is that perhaps some messages, especially those involving How Offended I AM, shouldn't be delivered on any medium.

[Cowboy Bob]

I think it would be easier to remove/dispose of the person who made the complaint. One person complained because they felt “uncomfortable,” and wound up offending a lot more people.

[FreedomStar3028]

I’m willing to wager that most of those middle class won’t be eating there anymore. I’m willing to bet that there is a large group of persons in this town that think the guy is a spineless sack. He did it for other reasons, I bet he was threatened, or his family. By the muslim dogs in the city.

Or maybe he thought it would get him business. Too bad old fart, enjoy your retirement while you contribute to the downfall of American society.

[montag813]

Notice the “reporter” doesn’t spend one sentence inquiring as to who are these “large number of Muslim families” and how exactly they all ended up in this small Vermont town.

[Biggirl]

When in America, as in Rome, DO as the ROMANS do.

[Balding_Eagle]

“They raged on Facebook: “Gutless, spineless, pukes. Anyone eating at this cesspool of a food establishment may as well join the rest of the jihadists trying to destroy this nation from within. May their faces and bodies be burned and seared with boiling bacon grease!”
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Given everything, I think that’s a proper, reserved, response.

Either that, or threaten to do some beheading ourselves.

[Constitution Day]

Michael Wood-Lewis of Front Porch Forum agrees. Lamenting the ugly out-of-state reactions to a post that had "too many hallmarks of a sound-bitey, link-bait story," he put a positive spin on it: "There are a lot of bacon conversations going on in Winooski this week. I don't know if it's community building. But it's people talking to each other face to face, which is our goal."

Hyphenated name, references to "community building." I bet this guy sits down to pee.

PS: "Bacon converations"? LOL.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

"She's hurting," said Decarreau, who has been in touch with the woman. "She didn't realize this is what would happen. If there's a lesson, it's that [online forums] are not the way to deliver a message to an individual or agency. You need to reach out directly to people."

She's a complicit terrorist broodmare.

Get them out of here.

[Zakeet]

[ontap]

I'm very much offended by Islam. Some things are more important than profit. There was nothing wrong with pointing out the attributes of bacon. No Mooslim is forced to eat it and if you're that offended go back to the 7th century mid-east.....better be sure to go to the correct sect....you could lose your head!!!

[Fiji Hill]

Surf over to the Facebook site Tell Sneakers Bistro How You Really Feel and tell them how you really feel.

[fivecatsandadog]

EXCELLENT

[fivecatsandadog]

"Women in Burkas on cellphones, drinking their Starbucks and driving their Toyotas badly is offensive to me. Bring back the Bacon!"

DITTO.

[steve8714]

Hippies. Hippies stink. They’re all for “Give peace a chance” as long as they get their way.

[fungoking]

“She's hurting,” said Decarreau, who has been in touch with the woman. “She didn't realize.....

...how many people would point out what an idiot she is, her only hope now is that her name doesn't become public so she can remain an anonymous idiot.

[Dr. Ursus]

Diversity-whites need only apply!

[GailA]

We just spent a week in Niagara Falls area, visiting hubby’s 88 year old bro. Which meant every meal was eat out. Some of the places we went had Sea Food on the menu. I’m allergic to it. So I just opted for a hamburger or a salad if they did the sea food on the same grill. And Hold the SALT, not every person can consume the over salted foods served.

Now what was so hard about that stupid woman in VT?

If a item is on the menu you can’t eat, by pass it and shut the Heck up. If you have a issue with the foods on a restaurants, chose not to go there. Publicity seeking lawsuit happy mussie!

[certrtwngnut]

Screw the perpetually offended. Lets get back to jokes about Wops, Micks, Spics, Pollocks, Krauts, and any others that you can name. Although I would draw the line at Porch Monkey and some others. That could be offensive.