The Word 'Bacon' Banned in Vermont Street Sign

American Thinker ^ | 08/27/2014 | Peter Wilson

[SeekAndFind]

The list of things that offend Muslims is long. Muslims are incensed, ready too often to murder offenders of their religion. The offenses range from substantive criticism: the Danish cartoons, The Satanic Verses, Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s film “Submission”; to the trivial: the Three Little Pigs banned from British schools, a teddy bear named Mohammed. A blog called the Amboy Times has compiled several hundred more.

Add to this list a sign in Winooski, Vermont, a suburb of Burlington, that said, “Yield for Sneakers Bacon.” (Not “Yield Sneakers Bacon” as reported in numerous outlets.) Sneakers is a local diner, or a “bistro and café,” that was given advertising space as compensation for maintaining a municipal flower bed.  The sign isn’t the best ad copy; apparently it was attempting a variation of “I Brake for Doughnuts.”

Unfortunately, Winooski is home to a number of Muslims whose religion teaches them pigs are filthy animals. Like Jules in “Pulp Fiction,” they do not dig on swine.

Winooski’s Muslim population is mainly Somali Bantus, originally black Africans from southeast Africa, brought north by Arab slave traders (but that’s another story). Many Bantus fled to Kenya during the Black Hawk Down period of anarchy in the early 1990s, and in 1999, the United States admitted 12,000 as refugees.

According to the Burlington Free Press, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program resettled the majority of Somali refugees in Winooski, which has “a large number of relatively inexpensive rental units near jobs and public transit.”  In 2009, “About a third of the students in the Winooski public-school system [were] English language learners… up from about 20 percent of the student population four years ago.” Note that ten years after their arrival, the refugees’ children remain “English language learners.”

[JimRed]

I’m beginning to believe that the only GOOD Muslim is a...oh, never mind.

[rfreedom4u]

Somebody there needs to get about a 1000 bacon stickers and plaster them everywhere.

[null and void]

Replace this:

With this:

[NRA1995]

Muzzies, if you don’t like it here, go find a pork-free country.

[Starboard]

The list of things that offend Muslims is long.

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There is also a long list of horrific things that do NOT offend Muslims. At least they don't speak out against such acts. Just saying...

[NRA1995]

More and more people are running around inventing reasons to be offended. What pantywaists!

[DBrow]

WE all must be tolerant and diverse, but not THEM.

Seems like THEY are using tolerance and diversity as a weapon against all that is not Islam.

[SeekAndFind]

Come here as refugees, then start banning stuff.

And we allow them to get their way...

How cool is that?

[PLD]

I agree 100%.

[nonliberal]

For caving, this place DESERVES to go out of business.

[PLD]

LOVE THAT SIGN!!!!

[Gay State Conservative]

A Brit on youtube named Pat Condell (look him up...he's amazing) does many commentaries on the Religion of Pieces.In one,in which he addresses the fact that the muzzies are always hurt or angry about something and that he,personally,couldn't care less,he says at one point something like "you can take your foolish outrage and shove it up your Khyber Pass".

Outstanding!

[panaxanax]

I like your idea.

If bacon wasn’t so expensive, I’d say hang a strip on every gas pump handle, public bathroom faucet and door knob in the city.

Screw ‘em. They can just get the hell out of my country if they don’t like it.

[Fiji Hill]

The posts over at Sneakers' Yelp site make for interesting reading.

[MortMan]

To be fair, the word was not banned. It was voluntarily removed after a single complaint.

The woman had a right to complain, and the restaurant had a right to either appease or ignore the complaint.

I, for one, think the restaurant chose poorly.

[laplata]

More and more people are running around inventing reasons to be offended. What pantywaists!

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The “pantywaists” are those who give in to them.

[Straight Vermonter]

The woman who complained about the bacon sign was not a Muslim. She actually complained because she's a vegan. She did mention that she lived with Muslims. Seriously.

[PLD]

I am going to cook me some of this for my breakfast.. Notice there are three pieces of pork sausage also..YUMMY

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The owner better get ready to cave a lot more. Their web site is loaded with the horribly offensive word.

From Sneakers Bistro History: "Many unexplained phenomena coincided with the birth of Sneaker's. A crop design was discovered in Kansas depicting two eggs over easy with bacon, homefries and whole wheat toast."

Breakfast Menu: "2 Eggs...any style, homefries or grits, toast. - Add bacon, sausage, veggie sausage ham or canadian bacon." Plus FOUR more!

Lunch Menu: "Buffalo Chicken Club Wrap … Spicy buffalo-style chicken strips, bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese & ranch dressing in a tomato tortilla wrap."

Extras Menu: "Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Sausage, Veggie Sausage, Ham"

Breakfast Catering: "Bacon, Sausage, Veggie Sausage or Homemade Turkey Sausage" plus 3 more.

The owner better get used to a lot more offended people scurrying out of the woodwork. They are never satisfied until you finally close the doors for good and turn out the lights. If the faggot wedding cakes don't get you, the bacon will.

Marc and his wife Jean Dysinger are probably dying to hear from you. Be sure to nice and be civil. (802) 878-0811; jeandysinger@comcast.net