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A Florida shop had to scrap its ice cream cone mascot because passers-by thought it looked like a man dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

"We were just trying to get people to come in," store employee Jasmine Gonzalez told CNN affiliate WTSP. "We thought it was something fun for people, but eventually people took it the wrong way."

The Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches shop opened a few months ago in Ocala. The owners hired a man to stand outside the shop dressed in a vanilla ice cream cone costume to attract business.

At first store owners told WTSP they had no idea the outfit was upsetting passers-by, but then they noticed a drop in business, and began to wonder what was impacting their sales.

Eventually, Gonzalez said they were tipped off that people were avoiding the shop, because they thought the peaked cap was not an ice cream cone costume, but a KKK robe. The mascot was immediately pulled off the street.

Some customers told WTSP they could understand the confusion, while others laughed at the ordeal.

"They (KKK members) don't color themselves (with sprinkles) like that," Wayne Austin chuckled to WTSP as he looked at the costume.

(CNN-9/28/11)

*** YES! People thought the "Klan" had added "sprinkles, and a waffle cone" to their robes to give it some flair! PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS! What MORONS! I have ran into the Klan before (Back in 1987, right outside my high school, passing out flyers, they didn't like my "dark swarthy Jew" ways), TRUST ME! THEY AIN'T ADDING SPRINKLES AND WAFFLE CONES! ***

Reverenddel wrote:*** YES! People thought the "Klan" had added "sprinkles, and a waffle cone" to their robes to give it some flair! PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS! What MORONS! I have ran into the Klan before (Back in 1987, right outside my high school, passing out flyers, they didn't like my "dark swarthy Jew" ways), TRUST ME! THEY AIN'T ADDING SPRINKLES AND WAFFLE CONES! ***

There's a reason we use the term "ignorant masses".

I don't know why, but that story made me think of this scene: http://www.whoisthemonkey.com/videos/16 ... girlfriend

We offer only Vanilla Ice Cream. Absolutely no ice cream of chocolate variety. No cherry garcia, strawberry, or gelato. Vanilla with mixed chocolate pieces are as bad as chocolate. No chocolate sprinkles. Rainbow sprinkles are even worse. We offer French Vanilla for profiling purposes only. Thank you.

Do want pics!

They may be "waissis."

TheGodfather wrote:

Reverenddel wrote:*** YES! People thought the "Klan" had added "sprinkles, and a waffle cone" to their robes to give it some flair! PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS! What MORONS! I have ran into the Klan before (Back in 1987, right outside my high school, passing out flyers, they didn't like my "dark swarthy Jew" ways), TRUST ME! THEY AIN'T ADDING SPRINKLES AND WAFFLE CONES! ***

There's a reason we use the term "ignorant masses".

I don't know why, but that story made me think of this scene: http://www.whoisthemonkey.com/videos/16 ... girlfriend

Honostly if you get offended by racist statements you need to get over yourself "oh he looks like a kkk member" "oh he called me a monkey" "oh he said my eyes are slanted" "oh he said I looked like a ghost" oh boo hoo woe is me.

I am simply tired of all this overly PC BullS***, so I'm going to say this to every whiney baby everwhere SHUT THE F*** UP!!!!!

Now as for this farce, lol it's the KKK now with sprinkles for extra racism!

Story includes video. Looks nothing like a KkK member!
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/28/ic ... an-member/

BTW as a side note they have been leaving fliers in our area I guess membership is low since the whole civil rights thing kinda died down. Who do they think are going to join? And you know what's the funniest part. In big bold letters on the flier was something to the effect "nobody will know your in the KKK".

If you look at that poor guy in that costume and your first thought is "Hey, he must be a Klan member" then either
A)You need to get your eyes checked
B)Go back to your doctor and tell him your prescription med's are producing massive, unwanted side effects
C)You must be a complete moron.

AppleaDay wrote:If you look at that poor guy in that costume and your first thought is "Hey, he must be a Klan member" then either
A)You need to get your eyes checked
B)Go back to your doctor and tell him your prescription med's are producing massive, unwanted side effects
C)You must be a complete moron.

You forgot
D) All of the above.

I just watched the video. We are all doomed if this made the news.