Posted on 04/03/2015 10:41:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Wisconsin eatery shares name with infamous Indiana pizza shop
(CNN) - Two years ago in a less turbulent time, Mike Premeau and Kathy Danke launched a small business, Memories Gourmet Pizza Co., in their Wisconsin town.
The two were successful in getting their line of frozen pizzas, including breakfast pizzas and gluten-free options, in stores across Nichols, west of Green Bay. They grew a base of loyal customers.
But all that was threatened this week when people began mistaking them for Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana, which made national headlines after its owners said they would refuse to cater a same-sex wedding.
People posted angry comments on Memories Gourmet Pizza's Facebook page and called its phone number to protest. And almost overnight, Premeau and Danke found themselves thrust unwillingly into a national debate over Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
"My stomach was in my throat all afternoon," Danke told CNN affiliates WBND and WFRV.
"All of a sudden, our Facebook page started getting flooded," Premeau said. "I was shocked. It was like I was a rat running around in a cage, wondering what's going on here."
In a cruel coincidence, the flood of outrage began on Wednesday, April Fool's Day.
"If I'm ever in the area, I'll be sure to starve to death before I give you and you intolerance any of my money!" wrote one commenter on Facebook.
"I don't have much of a message, except that I hope your bigotry puts you out of business very quickly," a man said in a voice mail.
Premeau thinks the firestorm was sparked by people Googling "Memories Pizza" and confusing the two businesses -- despite the fact that Nichols and Walkerton are in separate states and almost 300 miles apart.
He and Danke tried to defuse the outcry with a Facebook post saying in part, "We are not that company in Indiana, nor do we agree or condone their words or actions."
In response, they began getting messages of support on Facebook, along with a few sharp-tongued comments from supporters of the other Memories Pizza.
Premeau said he also got a call from a man whose initial post may have set off the social media storm, apologizing for the mistake. Still, he worries that damage to his wholesale pizza business may have been done.
"This misinformation and this defamation of character could cause me to lose the business over someone else's identity in another state," he said.
Premeau thinks the firestorm was sparked by people Googling “Memories Pizza” and confusing the two businesses — despite the fact that Nichols and Walkerton are in separate states and almost 300 miles apart.
well this PROVES what GENIUSES the malcontent left really are!!
There's a remedy for that. Bankrupt the leftists.
The important thing to the Leftist thug is that we have a uniform acceptance of Egalitarian fantasies. (Compassion Or Compulsion?)
The mistake many make is believing that we are dealing with people who are merely morally depraved. They are totally obsessed with their war on the realities of human existence.
“well this PROVES what GENIUSES the malcontent left really are!!”
If they had any brains, they wouldn’t be leftists.
Also notice the title of the article, which begins “Anti-bigotry critics.” They don’t sound “anti-bigotry” to me.
[[Anti-bigotry critics harass wrong pizzeria]]
Anti-Christian Hypocritical Liberal Bigots harass wrong pizzeria
There- fixed the title for you
They weren’t “anti-bigotry critics,” they were anti-religion bigots.
It truly would have been the wrong Pizzerea to harrass if it were in Rego Park NY, capiche??
I smell an ABCNNBCBS set-up.
Leftists are dumb, they just snarl and bark when they hear the whistle from the media
Those people are not anti-bigotry, by any stretch
And they say that we follow dog whistles. Projection, anyone?
I must disagree with Micheal Savage on liberalism. Liberalism is demonic possession.
Get rid of Face Book
Also note that this pizza joint said of the Indiana pizza place, “nor do we agree or condone their words or actions”
Hey, it's not President Obama's fault! That's what the teleprompter said! Stupid teleprompter doesn't know the difference between the 57 states!
Uh Oh, did Spike Lee go off on Twitter again?
The Herp Derp peoples react! Wonder if President Herp Derp will weigh in, slamming these Wisconsin pizza trogolodytes?
What you & he are calling "Liberalism," is actually an obsessive Egalitarian war on reality--the absolutely fanatical pursuit of airborne wishlists. It certainly has both demonic as well as compulsion driven aspects.
See, for example Variations On Demonic Theme. As well as Compassion or Compulsion?
I have been studying and trying to combat the malady for over sixty years.
William Flax
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