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Patrons mistake ice cream shop mascot for KKK robes
ocala.com ^ | Sept. 26, 2011 | Tom McNiff

Posted on 09/26/2011 12:36:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Once and for all, people, it's an ice cream cone.

The owners of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches at the busy intersection of South Pine Avenue and Southwest 17th Street say their two-month-old business is getting creamed because passers-by have mistaken their white-hooded ice cream cone mascot for a KKK protester.

Co-owner Jose Cantres says rumors are swirling on Facebook about the exact nature of the little vanilla cone, and employees heard through word of mouth that potential customers have steered clear of the shop to avoid the character.

Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection.

“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,' “ Diaz said.

Interestingly, Diaz, who is from Puerto Rico, had never heard of the KKK before this controversy. She can't even quite get her tongue around the name, referring to the white supremacist group as the “Ku Ku Klan” without a hint of irony or sarcasm.


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TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: floriduh; icecream; kkk
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To: napscoordinator
It is the South after all. Doesn’t surprise me that they would make a KKK outfit or one that looks like it. The South gave birth to the KKK. I thought it was gone but seems like they can’t quite let it go.

Did you even read the story or look at the picture?
41 posted on 09/26/2011 1:18:11 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Oztrich Boy

“The Klan brought in consultants to give them a corporate makeover.

LOL! Nice. The prettier, friendlier KKK.


42 posted on 09/26/2011 1:18:33 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder what these idiots would do if the business that was employing this type of advertising was a CRACKER BARREL.


43 posted on 09/26/2011 1:19:44 PM PDT by red-dawg
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I seem to recall that at some Italian funerals, some in the burial party and pall bearers wear white robes and hoods.

Imagine what these idiots would do if they were to see that!

Example from a 1927 Taormina Sicily Funeral Procession

Mark

44 posted on 09/26/2011 1:21:38 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If someone is so stupid they mistook an ice cream cone for the KKK, then I wonder how bad they'll (defecate) themselves if they ever saw this dude:
 
 
 

 


45 posted on 09/26/2011 1:25:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Not only those people but they also went after anyone who dared vote republican too.The letters are included in the national archives of southern republican begging for the government to send troops to stop the KKK.


46 posted on 09/26/2011 1:33:39 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Would Obama eat an ice cream cone there?


47 posted on 09/26/2011 1:49:17 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: napscoordinator
The South gave birth to the KKK.

True, but Indiana was the focal point of the KKK during it's second incarnation.

48 posted on 09/26/2011 2:09:27 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,' “ Diaz said.

I saw the waffle cone part of the suit and stayed away because I thought they were Belgians.

49 posted on 09/26/2011 2:12:15 PM PDT by x
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I am just sitting here crying I am laughing so hard. How overly sensitive have we become? Dude, it’s an ice cream cone. A rather bad depiction of one, but still . . .


50 posted on 09/26/2011 2:53:17 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: RetiredArmy
Are people really this stupid?

yes, they are.

51 posted on 09/26/2011 11:18:16 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: windcliff; onedoug; I Drive Too Fast

ping


52 posted on 09/27/2011 3:47:41 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: Pollster1

One has a waffle cone, three do not.

Maybe the ice cream guy needs a curly-Q squiggle on top.


53 posted on 09/27/2011 3:57:05 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: PeterPrinciple

My mother in law told my children(for a family history project) that when we she was a kid, her family went to KKK rallies in Kansas and it was against Catholics not blacks. She said she was around 10 so that would have been in the late ‘20’s- early ‘30’s.


54 posted on 09/27/2011 6:34:00 AM PDT by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: stylecouncilor

Yup. The Grand Kluk hisself.


55 posted on 09/27/2011 9:06:00 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Owner should say: “If you’re that (bleeping) stupid, then don’t come in here. I don’t want your business.”

Bingo

56 posted on 09/28/2011 3:40:35 AM PDT by Charlespg
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