>

I want to start up a frozen ice stand that only sells red white and blue frozen ice and call it "Snowflakes".
However, since opening, Quiroga said no one has said anything negative to her in person and the restaurant has been packed. 

This is all you need to read in the article to know the score. No one besides a tiny handful of karens cares. They just want something to whine about. The town is turning out for a good breakfast and hasn't been disappointed. >

Well, "New cafe doing great, packed everyday" doesn't get clicks >

"New restaurant has name and it BROKE THE INTERNET. (3 people on Twitter complained)" >

You (ad) won’t (ad) believe (ad) what (ad) happened (ad) next… (subscribe here) >

It's actually a pretty good name for a coffee spot.  Or Wired!  Wake might be better though. >

Wired! would be a great named for an internet cafe. >

Now that public wifi is so prevalent wouldn’t all cafes (with wifi) technically be Internet cafes now? >

I started saying something to this effect in my comment, but it started to get too wordy so I took it out.  Especially when you consider that wifi is no longer technically "wired" in the same way, though it still has some wires involved...  Also, not everywhere has wifi access yet, so not all normal cafes have wifi, and there are classic internet cafes in other countries still, so the point really wanders off track into some pointless tangents when you get into it. >

Nearly Wireless Cafe it is! >

Nearly wireless‽ 
How can you be nearly wireless? 🤓 >

“Like this!” opens a cut in CAT5 cable to reveal only a single copper wire is still intact >

This is a whole new level of nerdom. IT and HP fans. >

Great, my little town makes it to Reddit and its due to the backwoods idiots getting upset over a breakfast pun >

I guess you could say the name didn't B̶i̶d̶w̶e̶l̶l̶ bode well.
Also, we both know there's worse things coventry could have made the news for. ahem officer hicks....or carelli.... that cop that didnt lock the cell when the police station was @ town hall... heroin addicts baracading themselves in a house with guns..
Class of 2011 here lol >

haha, for sure. I've only been in town 5 years now, so i'm sure there's more I haven't heard of. >

I used to think it was such a shithole. Moved to SC 7 years ago.
I was wrong. It is a lovely place, just some stereotypical small town good ol boy behavior. >

i agree, its nice smaller town with just a pinch too many crazies. I spent 10 years in a real backwoods shithole in PA >

It's changing more now, but coventry was one of the few examples I've ever seen where low income families lived around the lake and the money was in the "north end" all these family's had houses from 100 years ago and just never moved. 
Also, you been to reins deli in vernon yet? Fuck I miss their pickles..... >

Yo I don't and have never lived anywhere near there, but I know Reins Deli! Only been once but I'd absolutely go back >

Their breakfast food is killer, Cubans and Rubens also killer.
But those fucking pickles man. I was up there for a family emergency last year, bought 2 of their gallon (maybe half gallon?)tubs since i was driving back down. I regret not having the foresight to keep the brine... live and learn. >

This is wild haha. I live in Vernon. Small
World. Let’s figure out the cost of shipping pickles for u >

The biggest snowflakes. >

Right? How much of an entitled snowflake do you have to be, to be so offended by something like "woke" as a breakfast spot name? Pathetic. >

These are the same snowflakes who feel entitled to be sexually aroused by candy company mascots, so... >

I should be aroused by green m&m's sexy sexy boots whenever I eat that sexiest of candies, and they took it away from me! The world shall know no peace until this injustice is righted! >

The shooooeeeees, they changed her shooooeeees, agghhhhh, how am I supposed to get off to sneakers?? >

I just wish they could make up their mind if they hate trans. Green is trans and they go crazy over her. >

LOL, the idea that they make up their own minds about this stuff. I guess they haven't yet been told how to feel about that by Fox News. >

Oh wow I had to look up why people say the green m&m is trans and it really kinda tracks. It seems obvious that it's not intentional, but the internal logic of the... m&m universe (?) seems to check out, so yea, it's some beautiful irony and I love it >

And yet conservatives love calling others snowflakes. Peak irony. >

I’m a former conservative turned slightly left centrist over the years. There are plenty of over sensitive folks on the left, no shortage of them at all. But… the extreme right is one of the most over sensitive hurt feeling woe is me group of people I’ve ever seen. It’s staggering. >

But left sensitivity tends to be toward compassion for the vulnerable. >

The American left are people with basic empathy that don't want to see people starve and die when we could prevent it by just using some of the money we blow on war for that
The American far right think giving hungry people food is actually evil as it's socialism and the struggle makes them work harder. >

I still don’t get the anti-socialist attitude. Why do conservatives want to struggle? >

They don't want to struggle. They just don't care if other people struggle. >


They don't want to struggle. They just don't care if other people struggle.

No, they don't want to struggle...they want other people to struggle more than they have. >

They are even willing to struggle more as long as others have to struggle even more than that. >

This is the one that made me laugh. >

It’s sadly true.  Think of how many ppl rely on Social Security that vote to have Social Security benefits repealed.  They’d be happy to suffer as long as it’s guaranteed others would suffer more >

They should lean into it. 
I'll have the Body Positive Stack of Pancakes with a side of Me Too Touch My Sausages, please. Then the waitress yells "Cancel that order!" >

I'll have some White Knight Waffles coupled with a Consenting Egg Omelette and a plate of onion Cancelled Hashbrowns. Oh and Entitlement Orange Juice with my Woke Coffee. >

"Would you like some toast that is literally worse than Hitler?" >

No no no I said glass of juice >

\^ Darkest and most underrated joke in this thread >

Took me a minute, 10/10 >

I admit I still don't get it >

Gas some Jews/glass of juice >

Wow.  That is so far out there I never made the connection.  Well played. >

Snowflakes >

We need an order of Frosted Snowflakes to go!
Free range milk and conflict free coffee. >

conflict free covfefe* >

One fair-trade covfefe coming right up. >

Conservatives love to make things up, and get angry at them. >

And then calling others snowflakes. After throwing a full-blown tantrum over something like, idk, a black character being in their video game or something >

No now they're mad that Microsoft is pushing an eco-friendly update to Xboxes >

one that is completely optional at that and gives the user more freedom over their xbox >

And a group calling themselves The Alliance Defending Freedom is trying to get an abortifacient drug banned. When they’re not busy trying to restrict the rights of LGBT folks. >

Woke up this morning >

Got yourself a gun >

Your momma always said you'd be the .. Chosen One >

She said; you're one in a million >

Ignore them. If they boycott, you're probably better off without them as customers. >

They're right-wingers. You know they whine and complain, and don't tip for shit. >

Yeah but they also vandalize and send death threats. >

Just the normal domestic terrorism things =)
Let's call it what it is >

There is no one quite as committed to cancel culture and being easily offended as an angry conservative. >

So much for conservatives and the free market. >

Conservatives: "....but you're the snowflakes." >

Next door theres a Mexican dessert place called "Only Flans" >

What is this, Bob's Burgers? >

Is it just me or do the conservatives purposefully ruin words? First came freedom then woke... 🤔😒 >

Liberty has been trampled too. >

Add patriot to the list. The American flag is quickly moving that direction. >

Yup haven’t worn American flag stuff in quite awhile for this exact reason >

I gi the other way on that one. I'm not letting them take that away. It's mine. Fuck em. >

Good for you. I can't do this with the Union Jack or England flag but I'm also not patriotic. But I hate those flags for what they mean to most now at first glance. >

What snowflakes >

They should change it to Wake the Fuck Up. >

"Wake Up, Sheeple" >

Smart business owner would run two cafes on opposite sides of the street, “Woke” and “Wake Up Sheeple!” Get the business from people on both sides of the culture wars. >

How is that a pun anyways >

That’s my big grief here. How is everyone overlooking that there is no pun here; I’d argue not even really a play on words. Headlines are stupid. >

Im confused as to the pun they are going for.
Regardless, fuck those snowflakes. Being upset over a damn name for a diner. >

It's a bit weird the way it was phrased (i.e. it was not a pun), but it's more of a design decision than a linguistic one: they wanted an egg and a coffee bean as part of the logo of their name. Which they don't show in the article. Why... >

Here's the webpage. >

Imagine being this easily offended. >

I don’t understand the fragility of these people but I fully understand why their adult children tend to stop talking to them. >

conservatives are such fucking snowflakes >

They need to get lives. Why is there a picture of a full English, though? >

Mmmm black pudding >

Conservatives are the true snowflakes. >

Funny how the same assholes that call everyone snowflakes always seem to be outraged by such trivial things. >

It’s projection >

It must be exhausting being a "Conservative"  and living one's life utterly confused and outraged by every single fucking thing in the world. >

Is the thumbnail a pic of one of their breakfast offerings? Looks great! >

Doubt it - that’s a Full English breakfast & it is very hard to source the black pudding in particular in North America >

Clicking into the article, the image is captioned, "Beans, eggs, and lean red meat are all good protein sources." So yeah, you're right, pic unrelated. >

Rename it Super Woke to pacify the locals, Or Woke Only. >

People protesting black people being killed by law enforcement with impunity are snowflakes but these people can’t even handle a restaurant named “Woke.” There are two sets of rules in their world >

I love Non Stories just as much as the next guy....
Since opening, (the owner) said no one has said anything negative to her in person and the restaurant has been packed. 
"We are very, very busy. We had to close an hour later because the people were waiting to try our food... Everybody said that the food is excellent. So we feel like, like we have good support from the town," >

Kinda feels to me like a smart advertising campaign. You get a ton of free publicity by stirring up the insatiable beehive of outrage that is modern conservatism.
Just say that one of your mascots is trans and boom- every single conservative in your area is doing free advertising on Facebook. >

Just who is the real 'snowflake'?
I don't think I've ever heard a bigger bunch of whining cry babies than today's right wing, MAGA types.
I mean, I was born into two families that were Republican back to the US Civil War. I was a Republican for years. But today's Republicans have turned Republican values upside down. It hasn't been the party of Lincoln for many many years. On the contrary, it has turned those traditional American values upside down, embracing racism, xenophobia and supporting irresponsible, out of control spending when it's promoted by hypocritical right wingers... which is about all there are anymore. >

Conservatives are so easily triggered. >

It’s almost as if conservatives are the real snowflakes. >

Just another demonstration that it's conservatives who are the real snowflakes. They get offended by words ALL THE FUCKING TIME, while claiming it's liberals who are easily offended. >

and shit, even then, liberals get offended by words that are specifically used to dehumanize people.
what conservatives are upset about here is that their attempts to sour people on a humanizing idea (wokeness) are failing.  Like when a bad parent's discipline backfires, they get bitter >

The right is really pathetic these days. >

Hasn't it always been pathetic?
I'm still not over the time they renamed french fries. >

So much hypocrisy from conservatives.. >

I just can't imagine what it's like to go through life that angry all the time.  It's got to be exhausting.  I feel bad for them. >

Conservatives triggered by a fucking word. Buncha little piss babies. >

If I had a Chinese restaurant, I’d name it Wok AF. >

Lol! I like how "Woke" is used by conservatives as derogatory term toward liberals, yet it's the conservatives complaining about it. >

Seems like a good way to keep stupid karens out of your restaurant. >

Conservatives and being triggered by the dumbest shit, name a more iconic duo... I'll wait. >

Conservative stupidity knows no bounds. It’s quite funny. >

Well reading the article, it sounds like just a few idiots on Facebook being idiots, and most people are coming put in droves to eat at the restaurant.   So that’s fantastic! >

We have a Beelzebuns Bakery. The store window had a pentagram on it, but she was forced by the city to take it down after complaints. >

Trumpers, once again, proving they are literally the dumbest group of dipshits on planet Earth. >

If you get triggered by which shoes a candy coated piece of chocolate wears, you'll probably get triggered by anything. >

Is it really so strange that she would have more than one pair of shoes? >

Look at Mr. Elitist 1% over here with his multiple pairs of shoes! >

Minor point:

A Connecticut restaurant owner named her new coffee shop "Woke" as a pun without knowing the political connotation of the word — prompting complaints from some apparent conservative-leaning residents of the town. 

Carmen Quiroga opened Woke Breakfast & Coffee in Coventry, CT, on January 19, and told Insider that the name was meant to be a spin on "Wake up and have a coffee." 
How does using "woke" to convey "Wake up and have a coffee" constitute a pun? >

It doesn’t! 
(Is ‘wake up and have a coffee’ even a common expression? It’s not like ‘rise and shine’ or something well-known.). >

I've never heard someone say that as an expression. >

When she named the restaurant, she accidentally cast Summon Karen III. lol >

It's almost like conservatives are, I don't know, morons. >

"I love the poorly educated" >

Conservative snowflakes >

What makes this even crazier is that being woke in the usual usage literally means being aware to what's happening around you. It's literally a compliment that dumb people think is an insult lmao >

Who are the real snowflakes? >

Conservatives are so sensitive to words. They really need to lighten up. >


However, since opening, Quiroga said no one has said anything negative to her in person and the restaurant has been packed. 

They only do it passive aggressively online to avoid any type of immeidate consequence? Whoa! Never would've guessed /s >

Conservatives never fail to get offended lol >

Please, everybody who lives there, give them your business!  Stick it to the morons complaining!  Make the place super successful! >

I swear to Kromdor, conservatives are such fucking snowflakes 🙄 >

Buncha snowflake babies. >

Stupid people incapable of even a scintilla of critical thought doing what Tucker Carlson, Greg Abbott, and Ron DeSantis tell them to do.
Just pathetic.
Woke=Educated, you dummies. Nothing like showing your pimply unwashed ass on a daily basis, is there, MAGAts? 
The Diapered Orange Shitstain would be so proud. If only he could read. >

Loooooooossssseeeerrrrss >

Meanwhile, this exists >

The snowflakes really are snowflaking. >

Jesus Christ. I feel like woke was a word young people used early in the Pandemic. I really haven't heard anyone under the age of 60 say it since. 
But all of a sudden it's the go to trigger word for conservatives >

Good publicity. >

She should rename it Conservatives Are Fucking Stupid >

Is anyone else just sick and tired of conservatives? They are just so hyper focused on the least important things in the world and peoples lives. It cost them the midterms and they still don’t get it. >

Conservatives project toughness but they’re the biggest snowflakes >

They're not conservatives. They're right wing lunatics . And whiny little titty babies. >

Conservatives are the dumbest fucking people to ever exist. >

So, are those complaining snowflakes? >

The rights obsession with the word "woke" and applying it to anything they don't like, including the simple acknowledgment that non-white, non-cismale, and non-heterosexuals exist has become a sickness. >

I thought the liberals are supposed to be the snowflakes?? >

Wow, conservatives being a bunch of stupid fucking pants shitting sniveling crybaby dumbasses, what a surprise. >

Snowflakes. >

Conservative bigot needs to get woke >

Omg I did not expect to see this on reddit. I went there this past Monday morning.
Everyone was very nice and patient, the only outburst was some really old dude who didn't wanna wait. But, hey, he was hungry.
The town drama around it has been eggcellent. >

Woke is literally a word that conservatives use to piss each other off. They fall for it every time too. >

Remind me again how conservatives are not the real snowflakes? >

Conservatives are absolute fucking fragile snowflakes who want everyone to care about their feelings. 
Change my mind. >

If that happened to me I’d get a bigger sign. What a bunch of Nazi snowflakes. >

What is it about the word "woke" that conservatives hate?
They go to war on words all the time. I guess if you have no ideas of substance that voters like, you attack a straw man, that you created. >

Woke is pro-rights-for-dark-skinned-people  
They can't call people ni**er in public without losing their jobs so they scream woke now. >

Once again exposing that conservatives don't even know that they don't believe in anything. It's just stimulus and response. >

Stimulus? They're against that too. Rabble rabble rabble. >

Another reminder to google a business name for potential problems before you start using it. >

Then don’t go… >

Animal brains in people bodies. >

This is really great publicity at the end of the day. >

Thanks for the great yokes, everybody! Nothing quite like the insanity of the modern American conservative… >

If anything those conservatives should be laughing, not getting enraged >

What is the opposite of “woke”? “A sleep”? “Sleeper”?
I seriously want to know >

Slept >

Republicans have weaponized the English language. >


No worries, her business is safe. No one who gets pissed about someone/thing being 'woke' would EVER patronize an immigrant owned business anyway. >

I’m not saying conservatives as a whole are assholes, but…. >

snowflakes lmao >

The article doesn't cite a single instance of someone complaining, and even the cafe owner says no one has come up to her and said anything. >

Goddamn that breakfast pan looks awesome >

I heard this place has kitty litter in the back instead of a bathroom, and all the staff are abortion doctors. Sounds like my kind of joint. >

I don’t get how the party of free markets and freedom of speech can be this blind to their own obsession with shutting people up. >

If you don’t like the name, don’t go >

"Woke? Woke?! Like those sensitive cry babies?!" >

Pathetic snowflakes >

I swear conservatives are such little bitches most of the time >

Probably would’ve misread the sign as “Wookie” and thought cool >

Fuck conservatives.  However,  this isn't a pun and I suspect the owner is smart enough to know that.  Clever marketing. >

I live one town over from this place, it's mostly a liberal area, but there is a pocket of conservatism around there. I sometimes go to the bar across the street from where that place is and you frequently see MAGA hats in there. >

Imagine being triggered by breakfast >

I was in a store with my 8 year old cousin the other day. He pointed to a Peanuts cartoon puzzle and said he used to like Charlie Brown but that he is woke now and so his parent's have banned Peanuts from the house. His mom is so brainwashed that when my elderly grandmother wanted to hold her newest grandchild at Thanksgiving, she was not allowed to because she had been vaccinated and the mom was worried about the vaccine affecting the kid.
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It's gone too far. >

I think we might hit this place up for breakfast this weekend. We're always looking for new breakfast spots and Coventry is just far enough away for me to search there. >

well, those arent the people you want as customers anyway soooo >


apparently conservative

I have a bigger issue with this article. >

Lol, in this day and age, the business should of known using the word "Woke" is terrible branding.  Marketing 101 >

What did I miss? When, why and how is woke offensive? >

God, how freaking fragile are Republicans at this point? >

Damn conservatives and their cancel culture. What ever happened to free speech? >

The people upset about this also have bumper stickers that say "Easily offended people offend me" >

Remember that time Fox News and conservatives lost their fucking mind over Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" because they are so fucking dumb they thought it was promoting being a lesbian? >

So fragile