What came first? The chicken or the gay?
I live near Orlando- the last three days on my way to work I’ve tried to stop at Chic and the drive-in window was WRAPPED around the building- lines for walk-ins were outSIDE the front door...I would have been late for work if I’d waited!
Tomorrow I work early am- will give it another go...
Lefties can start their own franchised brand called ‘Cheek filled gAy’ Might be a huge success down at the Castro district of SF.
I have never been to one. Now I have to go find one and spend some dollars. Hahahaha.
Meet S. Truett Cathy, The 91-Year-Old Billionaire Behind Chick-Fil-A
One of the comments at the site about enjoying a bigot burger and haterade, that was laugh out loud funny.
At home I’m 40 miles from a Chick-fil-a but on August 1st I’ll happen to be a 1/2 mile from one and staying at a hotel with a good frig and microwave. I’m stocking up!!
I have forwarded this story to friends, family and co-workers to show their support for a great company, not to mention the best chicken sandwich ever. There is one in Kansas City KS in the Legends area not far from Kansas Speedway. I hope the restaurant chain has a record busting day!.........God Bless Chick-fil-A and it’s Christian heritage!
I went to the link and found this comment. Love it!
This makes me so happy. I went there twice for lunch this week. Plan to go again on appreciation day. The secret ingredient in their sandwiches is liberal outrage. Tastes delicious!
I plan to buy from there on Wednesday and I never go to fastfood chains.
Haven’t read thru all the posts but buy gift cards of you can. Pictures of Sarah and Todd were great!
Chick-Fil-A is perhaps the least known fast food joint. I’ve never been to one let alone think of going there. That’s soon to change as I am doing what many people who’ve never been to one are doing. EATING AT CHICK-FIL-A. I’m anxious to see a news report where Chick-Fil-A says their sales are through the roof.. All time high! Watch.
LOL. I don’t like factory raised chicken, but we were looking for closest Chick-fil-A to go and support them. But, over a 100 mile drive to one will delay it for awhile.
Love Jennifer’s comment:
“The secret ingredient in their sandwiches is liberal outrage.”
Whether the boycott failed or not can only be shown by the sales reports and profit/loss of the corporation.
Anecdotal evidence is not conclusive.
This boycott really chaps my hide. The lines at any CFA were already long before this. Now I doubt you can get in the door. And they have a grilled chicken salad with spicy dressing that is awesome.
Actually, he has done that . . . and more! Menino effectively gave away city land valued at $1.8 million to the organization, and he gave a speech at its ribbon-cutting ceremony.
It’s the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque, and when it comes to anti-gay sentiment, one of its early supporters makes Chick-fil-A look like the Provincetown Men’s Chorus.
During the (understandable) controversy over the city selling land for a house of worship at a below-market rate a decade ago, reporters discovered that the Islamic Society of Boston counted imam Yusef al-Qaradawi as one of its spiritual guides. As the Weekly Standard reported at the time:
“The ISB does not dispute the fact that they have repeatedly used al-Qaradawi as a tool to raise funds for the Boston mosque, printing a brochure that highlighted al-Qaradawi’s enthusiastic support of the mosque and playing a videotaped message of support from him at a 2002 gathering.”
Also in attendance at the gathering, listening to al-Qaradawi’s message: Mayor Tom Menino.
Outside Boston, al-Qaradawi is better known as a vocal supporter of terrorism who teaches a hard-core version of Islam. His claim to fame as a “progressive” is that he was the first prominent imam to urge women to become suicide bombers, too.
It was only when his terror support became known that the Islamic Society of Boston announced that epeated listings of al-Qaradawi as an ISB trustee had been a mistake. But nobody’s accusing Chick-fil-A of supporting terrorism — just traditional marriage (I think liberals still see the former as more dangerous). Menino heard the president of the company call same-sex marriage a “sin,” and he announced it would not be allowed to do business in Boston.
OK, Mr. Mayor. But when you gave all that land to the ISB at a song, here’s what imam al-Qaradawi was teaching:
“[A homosexual should be given] the same punishment as any sexual pervert . . . Some say we should throw them from a high place, like God did with the people of Sodom. Some say we should burn them.”
According to the Anti-Defamation League, “In 2003 Qaradawi stated on IslamOnline that the punishment of homosexuality is the death penalty.”
In the end, says the anti-Islamist organization MEMRI, al-Qaradawi came down on the side of stoning.
Hey — say what you want about Chick-fil-A, but they aren’t trying to kill anyone. Other than, perhaps, via hardening of the arteries.
Chick-fil-A wants to come to Boston, pay taxes and put people to work. Menino says “no” because the CEO thinks same-sex marriage is wrong.
But that same mayor was all but giving away city land to the Islamic Society of Boston, even as they were presenting as one of their spiritual guides an imam who says homosexuals should be killed.
And this makes sense . . . how?
The mayor’s office did not respond to my repeated requests for an explanation of this apparent double standard yesterday. However, the mayor did finally admit that his threats against Chick-fil-A were empty. Other than sending a letter to the restaurant’s potential landlord asking that they be turned away, he has no power to stop them from legally conducting business in Boston.
So why did he say otherwise?
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1061148809
I think Mayor Menino has bigger problems than Chick-fil-A.
I was in one near Montgomery, AL on I-85 today at about 4:00 PM local time. It was quite busy for such an off time of day. You could find a table, but it wasn’t like you had a big choice of where to sit, parking lot was pretty full, lots of cars in the drive-thru as well.