Originally Posted By Tony Manero Taken from the article: """ "Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They're in honor of our new president. He's following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his." Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies—they're actually drunken "N-word" cookies. She says the backwards baker then repeated the dark suggestion that, like Lincoln, President Obama "will get what's coming to him." Go Secret Service, go!""" LOL maybe the baker just has a cultural barrier that prevents him from meshing with our's. I think he is French.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Yup. Thank you, barboy./// you're wecome---just thought I'd help out a little (I should have pulled up the movie *audio only* for all to enjoy)
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "The bakery merely baked a cookie & gave it a humorous, and offensive name. It's not like they shot or hung anyone." Did you read the article? I think that the baker is harboring darker feelings for blacks that you think.
Originally Posted By alexbook From the way I read the article, it seems to me the guy's probably just doing it for the publicity.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Which, I think, makes it even worse...being offensive ro personal gain.
Originally Posted By avromark Well to play devils advocate pick your argument 1. It's just a cookie name 2. They could be tasty 3. He was frozen for a few decades is all. 4. And they wonder why people think New Yorkers/Americans/Those Cuban Brother-In-Law/Other are ____.
Originally Posted By DAR <<And being offensive is not humorous.>> There are times when being offensive can be this isn't one of those times.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Also, even if he didn't find the "negro" part offensive, how is the "drunken" part supposed to be a compliment? In "honor" of Obama, he gets a drunken mishapen cookie? I somehow doubt the baker "didn't know".
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Wasn't the word negro used only after he changed it from that other "n" word?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 No, it sounds like he got flack for "Negro" and then resorted to saying "N-word" instead. I don't think he used the real "N-word".
