CT conservatives complain about a breakfast spot named "Woke"

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A Connecticut business owner named her new breakfast spot 'Woke' as a pun. But then some conservative residents mistook the name and complained.



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.

Carmen Quiroga opened Woke Breakfast & Coffee in Coventry, CT, on January 19, and told Insider that the name was meant to be a spin on "Wake up and have a coffee."

"When we were thinking of an idea, we obviously wanted a word that would represent something related to morning. We wanted something that was quick and easy to say," Quiroga told Insider.

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Quiroga, who immigrated to the US from Mexico said she did not know the term was used as a derogatory term by conservatives toward liberals.

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However, since opening, Quiroga said no one has said anything negative to her in person and the restaurant has been packed.

"We are very, very busy. We had to close an hour later because the people were waiting to try our food... Everybody said that the food is excellent. So we feel like, like we have good support from the town," Quiroga said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/a-connecticut-business-owner-named-her-new-breakfast-spot-woke-as-a-pun-but-then-some-conservative-residents-mistook-the-name-and-complained/ar-AA16EB3W



Residents, however, say divisions over the name have been heated.

"Just a word of warning, anymore ridiculous comments about the name of the new breakfast place in town will be deleted," the administrator of The Coventry CT Citizen's Open Forum on Facebook wrote Thursday.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Woke-Breakfast-Coffee-Coventry-controversy-17730765.php

[GenThePerservering]

1. Damned gopers

whine about EVERYTHING.

[Sky Jewels]

2. M&Ms, saying Merry Christmas, Mr/Ms Potatohead ... but WE'RE the snowflakes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. What an absolutely shitty non-story that boils down to "people were mad on Facebook."

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4. Poor conservatives, triggered by words, ideas, and books.

Must be hell, living in their heads.

[WVreaper]

5. Stay woke!

[Meadowoak]

6. Conservatives can open a restaurant, and call it "I hate everyo

That isn't me".