Patrons mistake ice cream shop mascot for KKK robes

ocala.com ^ | Sept. 26, 2011 | Tom McNiff

[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.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

It is the South after all. Doesn’t surprise me that they would make a KKK outfit or one that looks like it. The South gave birth to the KKK. I thought it was gone but seems like they can’t quite let it go.

Did you even read the story or look at the picture?

[CodeToad]

“The Klan brought in consultants to give them a corporate makeover.
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LOL! Nice. The prettier, friendlier KKK.

[red-dawg]

I wonder what these idiots would do if the business that was employing this type of advertising was a CRACKER BARREL.

[MarkL]

I seem to recall that at some Italian funerals, some in the burial party and pall bearers wear white robes and hoods.

Imagine what these idiots would do if they were to see that!

Example from a 1927 Taormina Sicily Funeral Procession

Mark

[Responsibility2nd]

If someone is so stupid they mistook an ice cream cone for the KKK, then I wonder how bad they'll (defecate) themselves if they ever saw this dude:

 

 

 

 

[chris_bdba]

Not only those people but they also went after anyone who dared vote republican too.The letters are included in the national archives of southern republican begging for the government to send troops to stop the KKK.

[USMCPOP]

Would Obama eat an ice cream cone there?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The South gave birth to the KKK.

True, but Indiana was the focal point of the KKK during it's second incarnation.

[x]

“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,' “ Diaz said.

I saw the waffle cone part of the suit and stayed away because I thought they were Belgians.

[T. P. Pole]

I am just sitting here crying I am laughing so hard. How overly sensitive have we become? Dude, it’s an ice cream cone. A rather bad depiction of one, but still . . .

[Shadowstrike]

Are people really this stupid?

yes, they are.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[BunnySlippers]

One has a waffle cone, three do not.

Maybe the ice cream guy needs a curly-Q squiggle on top.

[Vor Lady]

My mother in law told my children(for a family history project) that when we she was a kid, her family went to KKK rallies in Kansas and it was against Catholics not blacks. She said she was around 10 so that would have been in the late ‘20’s- early ‘30’s.

[onedoug]

Yup. The Grand Kluk hisself.

[Charlespg]

Owner should say: “If you’re that (bleeping) stupid, then don’t come in here. I don’t want your business.”

Bingo