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Portland Salt&Straw Yanks Its artisanal Ice Cream From Hotel Chain Founded by Trump's Amb. Sondland
Willamette Week ^ | October 11, 2019 | Aaron Mesh

Posted on 10/13/2019 9:56:19 AM PDT by nwrep

Portland ice cream company Salt & Straw today pulled its products from Provenance Hotels, the Portland-based chain founded by embattled U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland. "After much consideration, we have made a decision to end our wholesale business with Provenance Hotels," Salt & Straw said in a statement provided to WW. "We are very thoughtful with our relationships and, after seven years, have determined it is best to go in a different direction."

Oregon Public Broadcasting first reported Salt & Straw's decision. OPB noted that Salt & Straw provided products to Provenance hotels like the Dossier, where guests could order artisanal ice cream via room service.

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Earl Bluenanauer called for a boycott of Provenance Hotels, because of its link to Sondland. (Sondland stepped down as CEO when Trump appointed him as an ambassador.)

Jim McDermott, a Portland attorney who represents Sondland, decried the boycott call. "Congressman Blumenauer's irresponsible attempt to hurt a homegrown business that supports hundreds of jobs in our local economy is just shameful and ought to outrage all Oregonians," McDermott said Wednesday evening.


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1 posted on 10/13/2019 9:56:19 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Childish


2 posted on 10/13/2019 9:57:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nwrep

This is why they want Trump’s tax returns, so they can blackmail all his business partners into severing ties to hime.


3 posted on 10/13/2019 10:00:26 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (We cannot spare this man. He fights.)
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To: nwrep
Oh well, they can always be replaced by Ben & Jerry's. It would work.


4 posted on 10/13/2019 10:03:40 AM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: nwrep

“Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.”


5 posted on 10/13/2019 10:04:33 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: nwrep
With a child, you can cure this kind of petty vindictive behavior with a scolding, or a spanking.

With an adult, only a bullet in the head seems to work. You can't rewire Stupid.

6 posted on 10/13/2019 10:04:44 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t children take their ball and go home?


7 posted on 10/13/2019 10:05:02 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: nwrep

May the suicide of Salt & Straw’s business be painful, comprehensive, and permanent.


8 posted on 10/13/2019 10:05:19 AM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: nwrep

Oh, hell, no more artisanal ice cream for me. My world is shattered.


9 posted on 10/13/2019 10:08:40 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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High Carb full of processed poison, it won’t be missed.


10 posted on 10/13/2019 10:09:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nwrep

Just a bit of speculation: Probably not a very large customer — the loss of revenue was more than compensated by the opportunity for publicity through virtue signaling.


11 posted on 10/13/2019 10:13:16 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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Let the mass melting of ice cream begin!! Hot words are able to do a lot of damage.


12 posted on 10/13/2019 10:20:34 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: nwrep

Maybe people who stayed at Provenance Hotels in Portland realized the ice cream was from a loony left shop and refused to buy it.....


13 posted on 10/13/2019 10:26:35 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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ALERT!! VIRTUE SIGNALING outbreak.


14 posted on 10/13/2019 10:28:33 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: nwrep

So lemme get this straight, they are refusing to ‘bake the cake’ and discriminating against someone.


15 posted on 10/13/2019 10:36:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: nwrep

Let us hope and pray they go Bankrupt from their Public Display of Petulance.


16 posted on 10/13/2019 10:40:50 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: nwrep

When I choose a hotel I first ask...”what about the ice cream?”


17 posted on 10/13/2019 10:58:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: BenLurkin

We have decided to politicize ice cream. It being one of the great “causes of childhood obesity,” I’m surprised dems haven’t moved to overtax or ban it. But this explains the disconnect.


18 posted on 10/13/2019 11:32:39 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: nwrep

Clash of the Special Left Coast People.

*yawn*


19 posted on 10/13/2019 11:37:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Self-esteem has completely obliterated self-respect as a desideratum." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: nwrep

Really, not doing business because of politics? I don’t care if my clients are Communist, Libertarian, Left of Center or Apolitical... I care about green... not if they are AntiTrump or ProTrump..


20 posted on 10/13/2019 12:27:51 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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