Who Knew A Cookie Could Be So Offensive?

012309cookie.jpgI love cookies, especially when you dip em in milk and they get all soft and scrumptious. OMG I’m getting hungry.

Cookies are the feel-good food of my life. It is impossible to have a cookie and not feel totally happy and blissfully content. Or so I thought…

Apparently, Ted Kefalino, a baker in Greenwich Village created the treat to honor the newest addition to the U.S. line of presidents. However, many don’t entirely see how this cookie honors anything, let alone our President. In fact, people are deeming it offensive and the local community is now boycotting the bakery.

He calls the cookies “Drunken Negro Heads” and offers them as a suggestion to compliment the customers’ cup of coffee. Yes, because I always love my coffee with a side of racial slur.

“A shocked customer tells My Fox NY that Ted Kefalinos, proprietor of Lafayette French Pastry, asked her, ‘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.’”

Some have even interpreted that last bit as an “insinuation of assassination,” which it most definitely seems like. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like honor to me.

Kefalino doesn’t seem to see the problem with his tasty treat and can’t quite comprehend why people deem it offensive, which makes me wonder if his cakes are as dense as he is.

I have never been on to turn down a cookie, but this is definitely one sweet treat I will be passing up. What about you? Would you have a “Drunken Negro Head” with your morning brew?

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9 Comments on "Who Knew A Cookie Could Be So Offensive?"

  1. Stephanie says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20091:01 pm 

    Yikes.

  2. Alison says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20092:24 pm 

    Okay, creating a cookie to honor the new president is an excellent idea! However, the racial slur it carries as a name is not.

  3. Danni says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20092:36 pm 

    that cookie looks so gross. people like this should just be ignored. all they want is attention and obviously we give it to them. the best way to deal with these rascist douche bags is to treat them like the kids they act like. and if president obama does end up changing this country for the better i guarantee you all the people that are criticizing him now will be all over his nuts.

  4. jodi says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20094:27 pm 

    Dang it, it looks so good, but I wouldn’t be able to accept it.

  5. Cali says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20094:35 pm 

    haha of course its from a bakery named Lafayette

  6. Lisa says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20094:57 pm 

    That s*it looks nasty. I would not eat it if you paid me.

  7. Alice says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20098:30 pm 

    Are the eyes made of.. red Jell-O? That’s even more disturbing than the whole racism thing! Who the hell combines jelly with chocolate??

  8. J says:
    Mon, 26th Jan 20099:47 pm 

    cali.. lafayette sucks?

    and yeah this is ridiculous. it makes me ashamed that racism is still around in ignorant people.

  9. Casey says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 200912:15 am 

    Alice, I think it’s jelly.

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