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Woke Portland pizza restaurant hits diners with anti-ICE propaganda and bizarrely declares ‘food is political’
Fox News ^ | 2/17/26 | Chris Bradford

Posted on 02/17/2026 5:33:15 AM PST by Libloather

A woke Portland, Oregon, pizza restaurant bombarded diners visiting its website with an unhinged anti-ICE rant — before bizarrely claiming that food is political.

The note posted on Tastebud’s website, which has gone viral, called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and surfaced weeks after the deaths of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

“Ice out everywhere,” the notice said.

“Food is political. No one is illegal on stole land. F‐-- Ice. Abolish Ice.”

The note then started to ramble about issues such as the Jeffrey Epstein files and transgender politics.

“Release the Trump/Epstein files. Free Palestine. Black Lives Matter. Trans women are women. Love your LGBTQ+ neighbors. The Holocaust was real,” the unhinged tirade continued.

Website visitors met with the note before they could subscribe to the restaurant’s newsletter.

Critics accused the restaurant of choosing politics over pies, with some promising to boycott the establishment.

The restaurant faced a torrent of backlash online and the note has since been toned down.

“Since receiving attention for our statement, we have experienced a surge of hateful, harassing, and abusive reviews, calls, and emails. This is concerning for our staff, our family, and our guests,” a Tastebud spokesperson told Fox News.

The restaurant told the outlet all diners are welcome.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: antifa; food; pizza; political; portland; tastebud

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“Food is political because care has become political,” the toned-down note says.

There is no charge for spit on the menu. Cook could be Martha frickin' Stewart, I ain't eatin' it. Broke on the way. (Would be kinda fun to screw with the help, though.)

1 posted on 02/17/2026 5:33:15 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Anyone tells me my land is stolen had better say it to my face and be ready to back it up.


2 posted on 02/17/2026 5:37:47 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather
I’ll take what is “food is political” for $400 Alex…..

The answer is what is the Soviet Union and Communist China?

3 posted on 02/17/2026 5:38:44 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Libloather

“The Holocaust was real”

At least they got one thing right. Surprising as usually leftists deny it.

By the way, if this place feels that way about ICE, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if I break into their place at night, make myself a couple of pizzas and stay as long as I want.


4 posted on 02/17/2026 5:41:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Libloather

I predict their business will go through the roof. They know their customers.


5 posted on 02/17/2026 5:41:40 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Libloather
“Food is political."

Stalin's Holodomor.
Mao's Great Leap Forward.

Control the food, control the people.

6 posted on 02/17/2026 5:46:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: Libloather

““Since receiving attention for our statement, we have experienced a surge of hateful, harassing, and abusive reviews, calls, and emails. This is concerning for our staff, our family, and our guests,” a Tastebud spokesperson told Fox News.”

It’s a real bitch when the shoes’ on the other foot isn’t it?


7 posted on 02/17/2026 5:46:21 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: Libloather

It’s all about the Benjamins.


8 posted on 02/17/2026 5:47:54 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“The Holocaust was real”

So they are Islamaphobic.


9 posted on 02/17/2026 5:50:10 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Libloather

If they perceive themselves on stolen land, they should find the nearest Indian tribe and hand it over the property right now. Put up or shut up with your ‘stolen land’ BS.

And about that ‘no one is illegal’… if I show up in your living room with a dozen friends and decide this is where we live from now on - you’re just going to have to deal with it. Don’t try to reason with us either, we don’t speak English and won’t understand a damn thing. Oh, you have to feed us and pay for our healthcare. We deserve equity, justice, cold beer, reparations, and some seed money for some daycares we’re opening around the city.


10 posted on 02/17/2026 5:52:05 AM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: ClearCase_guy
(Control the Food, Control the People.)

YEP. That will be the End Game, I guarantee you.

First they start with the Digital ID 🆔...

This WILL NOT happen tomorrow but we have to tell people TODAY.

Because the days WILL come when owning a Bible and PREACHING
Sound Doctrine will be ILLEGAL. We're almost there already.

Even in the good old U.S.A.


11 posted on 02/17/2026 6:00:43 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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12 posted on 02/17/2026 6:02:27 AM PST by Twotone (Sometimes I wrestle with my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle.)
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To: Libloather

New menu item: liberal pizza topped with baloney and chicken wings on the side….just left wings.


13 posted on 02/17/2026 6:04:09 AM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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> No one is illegal on stole land. <

Good to know.

So should I ever visit Portland, I’ll just move into that pizza restaurant and set up house. I’ll pick a nice spot in a corner. I like my privacy.

Side note to the restaurant owner:
The land you’re on was stolen from the Multnomah people. It ain’t yours, pal.


14 posted on 02/17/2026 6:07:22 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Libloather

The last item on the list of political screeds is “stay hydrated.” LOL. This won’t hurt the restaurant in Portland; in fact, its a marketing tool. Most restaurants go bankrupt within two years and in Portland, odds are that this owner will probably go bankrupt within that time or sooner.


15 posted on 02/17/2026 6:08:52 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Libloather

Every square foot around the world is stolen including land Indians stole from other Indians. Enough of your guilt tripping.


16 posted on 02/17/2026 6:10:58 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Libloather

I don’t want anyone that crazy near my food.


17 posted on 02/17/2026 6:20:18 AM PST by sevlex
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> Indians stole from other Indians <

That’s right.

Here’s a story you might find interesting.

I once read an article about a French fur trapper who worked the Great Lakes region around the time of the American Revolution. He was on good terms with all the natives. I don’t remember the names of the two Indian tribes in the article, so I’ll just use A and B.

One day the trapper went to visit his friends at Tribe A and couldn’t find them anywhere. So he canoed down to his friends at Tribe B.

“Where is Tribe A?” he asked the chief of Tribe B.
“We killed them all,” the chief replied.

(Tribe A gone. Tribe B now “owns” their land.)


18 posted on 02/17/2026 6:24:05 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: sevlex

Nor do I.


19 posted on 02/17/2026 6:26:12 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Libloather
The restaurant told the outlet all diners are welcome.

Go into it wearing a Trump/Vance T-shirt and see how welcome you feel...

20 posted on 02/17/2026 6:27:29 AM PST by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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