General Beauregard's Owners Apologize for 'N*****ita' (GA)
By Blake Aued
October 31, 2015 1:08pm
General Beauregard’s owners have confirmed that the bartender’s cheat sheet containing a recipe for a shot called a “N*****ita” is real and say the bar will reopen with no changes to its Confederate theme on Monday.
Daniel Simmons still has not responded to Flagpole’s follow-up inquiries after releasing a statement Tuesday on the controversy, sparked when a print-shop employee posted a photo of the sheet on Facebook expressing his disgust, which was widely shared on social media and became national news. But he and Gardner Dominick emailed additional comments to the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday.
Simmons and Dominick wrote that the sheet was an old document stashed behind the bar, and only one recipe was “unacceptably themed.”
They wrote that they were “outraged” to discover that the drink existed, and they “offer our sincerest apology to the City of Athens which we love and cherish, our customers and the public” ...
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