If you've ever wanted to know what it takes to run your Greenwich Village bakery out of business in a hurry, here's the video for you. Apparently this gentleman, a true American patriot if there ever was one, is selling these fancy (word of the day) cookies to celebrate the inauguration, or racism, or something. Anyway, I have not tasted the cookies, but I have seen this video on every NYC based blog on the internets and on the evening news. So if you're in the area and want to try them you better act fast because the bakery is probably going to be hit by a maltov cocktail sometime in the next 48 hours. Video highlights to look for include when he is all, "yeah, drunken negro heads, was' the big deal?" and when he proclaims that he can't possibly be prejudice because his brother in law is Cuban. Brilliant.
Rating: nopointsforyou!%
Bonus tip for Village residents: Get your damn coffee from the Mud truck.
Wow, Laurie! You're right, it is a shame to see another small business closing down! I didn't watch the whole video--did someone write down the recipe?
ReplyDeleteMaybe this guy should make a whole line of stereotype cookies. I bet he'd make a really mean Splattered Guido Head.
ReplyDeleteClearly this guy is an idiot, but I do want to point out to Geraldo Rivera or whoever's the host of this show that there isn't a line between freedom of speech and blatant racism. If he wants to call the cookies "Drunken Negro Head Cookies" that's his right, as it is the right of patrons of the bakery to no longer shop there.
ReplyDeleteYeah Glenn, but he's in Greenwich Village, not Arkansas. Hopefully the shop will be served its molotov before all the tourists can rush up from the Bible belt to patronize it.
ReplyDeleteRemind me how anyone is trying to take away his right to free speech? No one said he wasn't allowed to make drunken negro head cookies, we just said he was a fucking idiot for doing so.
ReplyDeleteI have scoured my sites and nothing has come up. Is this a Chappell sketch? If it isn't, it will be!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed he can say "Drunken Negro Heads" with a straight face, as if he were saying "Lemon-rasberry squares."
ReplyDeleteHe and Adolf Hitler Campbell ought to go into business together.
I hope he makes a Korean cookie next--maybe a big cupcake paired up with a little cupcake with a black eye.
ReplyDeleteConfucius says, "Shit rolls downhill in Korea."
$3.50 for one cookie? I guess there's no recession in Greenwich Village. Good for you guys.
ReplyDeleteHa, I didn't even flinch when they said the cookies cost $3.50. Making you think $3.50 for a cookie is a reasonable price is just one of the many ways that living in NYC fucks up your brain.
ReplyDeleteIf someone knocked on my door right now trying to sell me a single City Bakery chocolate chip cookie, I would pay, I think, up to $15.
ReplyDeleteThe news guy said "He may have crossed the line from freedom of speech to blatant racism." That's just not how it works.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but I think you should explain.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think it's obvious, but as we all know one of the most important elements behind freedom of speech is the ability for anybody to say whatever they want, no matter how offensive. You can't "cross a line" from actual freedom of speech into "blatant racism," as the reporter said, because that implies that racism is not protected as free speech, which it must be. Racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic speech are all protected under the blanket of free speech, as is the right to verbally malign the government. We all know that here, though. Wasn't it Some Douchebag, Esq, who said "I don't agree with what you say, but I'll give my life for your right to say it?" Anyway, people here know all this anyway.
ReplyDeleteOkay I missed that line. Arnold Diaz is a retard. Still, those cookies are fucking stupid.
ReplyDeleteI think there's another side to that coin as well, which is that non-blatant racism isn't any more OK than blatant racism.
ReplyDeleteUnless it's against Scottish people, who drink too much, fuck their cousins, and never put in an honest day's work.
ReplyDeleteWell laddie, except for the "fuck their cousins" part (my cousins are all male, all ugly and I'm not gay) it sounds to me like being Scottish is O.K.
ReplyDeleteIt's really not. We all get diabetes before we're 50, and we have way too much time to post sarcastic nonsense on blogs and suchlike.
ReplyDeletewait wy wld someone come to your house and try to sell you cookies
ReplyDeleteLike if they were a girl scout or something... a girl scout from a very posh tribe.
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