Posted on 09/26/2011 12:36:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Once and for all, people, it's an ice cream cone.
The owners of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches at the busy intersection of South Pine Avenue and Southwest 17th Street say their two-month-old business is getting creamed because passers-by have mistaken their white-hooded ice cream cone mascot for a KKK protester.
Co-owner Jose Cantres says rumors are swirling on Facebook about the exact nature of the little vanilla cone, and employees heard through word of mouth that potential customers have steered clear of the shop to avoid the character.
Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.
“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,' “ Diaz said.
Interestingly, Diaz, who is from Puerto Rico, had never heard of the KKK before this controversy. She can't even quite get her tongue around the name, referring to the white supremacist group as the “Ku Ku Klan” without a hint of irony or sarcasm.
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Welcome to Obama’s America.
This person handles other peoples' money? Time to switch banks.
If people are so ignorant that they can’t tell that white hood from a Klan white hood, that’s just pathetic. Unfortunately, it looks like they’ve got a pathetic group of customers that the shop needs to placate. I’d get rid of the white hood, perhaps go for the chocolate or strawberry look.
Probably just some subliminal niche marketing. /s
Are people really this stupid?
Ice cream is RACISS!
No, they're niggardly about using their intelligence.
;^)
So are “Waffle” Cones.
OK. So why do they call the M&M’s with ice cream thingy the “Grand Wizard Blizzard”?
See if you can spot three differences between the pictured robes.
I didn’t know the Klan used sprinkles on their robes.
He doesn’t look like a white guy.
“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,’ “ Diaz said.
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Owner should say: “If you’re that (bleeping) stupid, then don’t come in here. I don’t want your business.”
Did they think the KKK added multicolored chocolate spinkles to their hoods?
Sorry, it’s the Cool Cone Clan,
Geez, I drive by him all the time. He is black and the bottom part is an ice cream cone.
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