A Connecticut restaurant owner named her new coffee shop “Woke” as a pun without knowing the political connotation of the word — prompting complaints from some apparent conservative-leaning residents of the town.
The owner chose the name because she wanted a logo with an egg in it, and the only word relating to waking up that had an ‘O’ in it was ‘woke’.
Debate ensued on the town’s Facebook page. Fortunately…
On Thursday, the page’s admin, Tonya Landrie Ohlund, threatened to remove “ridiculous comments” about the new breakfast shop.
“If you are that close-minded that you can’t grasp that the name is referring to the fact that it is a breakfast establishment and nothing more, then just keep that to yourself and move on,” Ohlund wrote. “It’s disgusting to read that residents are going to refuse to support a business that is trying to grow in our awesome little town because you don’t like what they’ve named it, without even knowing anything about how they chose that name. Just stop.”