She named her breakfast cafe Woke. A conservative backlash followed.

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/29/woke-breakfast-restaurant-connecticut/
https://archive.ph/Bh9vv

She named her breakfast cafe Woke. A conservative backlash followed.
By Kyle Melnick
January 29, 2023 at 11:51 p.m. EST



When Carmen Quiroga named her new breakfast restaurant, she wanted people to associate the cafe with waking up in the morning.

She settled on Woke Breakfast & Coffee and spent six months renovating a building and developing a logo. Quiroga moved to Coventry, Conn., a few weeks before the restaurant’s opening this month. While finalizing the permits at town hall, another resident advised her to check Facebook.

There, Quiroga saw several town residents criticizing her restaurant’s name, suggesting she’d chosen Woke to make a political statement.

That was false, Quiroga told The Washington Post. She filled her days with work and never watched the news, she said. After viewing Facebook, she researched the term’s definition and recognized the misunderstanding the name provoked.

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[Walleye]

1. This is the story with a happy ending, and I love their logo

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Somnambulant Cafe

If you call them unaware or dim-witted, they're fine with it

[Better Days Ahoy]

3. Another spot 30 minutes from where I live!

Coventry is a nice lakeside community. Glad that a few nincompoops didn't spoil this new small business owner's dream.

I thought Coventry was better than that, too.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. I know I am not the only one, but I am so fucking tired of repugs thinking they OWN

the narrative. FUCK YOU ASSWIPES!!!!

[padfun]

5. You're either woke or in a coma

That's what I've been saying in comments.

[AllyCat]

8. Love it!

[Bo Zarts]

9. Quick or dead ..

[EYESORE 9001]

6. Sheesh! The south, amirite?

Oh, wait…I keep forgetting that MAGAt trash aren’t confined within state borders.

[niyad]

15. Conn.

[EYESORE 9001]

18. Yeah...that was kinda the point I was trying to make

It seems like every time something like this happens in a red state, some will pile on about WTF is wrong with everyone there, often culminating in calls for those states to secede. When it happens in a blue state, we hear nuttin’ but crickets. The point I was trying make is that troglodytes live from sea to shining sea, so don’t feel too smug, because hate can happen even in relatively liberal areas.

[niyad]

19. I figured as much. .just confirming. After all, kevvie is from CA.

[czarjak]

7. Un-Woke and damned proud of it.

[William Seger]

14. Since "woke" pretty much means anti-bigot...

... it's really easy to guess who would have strong negative reactions to it.

[NBachers]

10. I've run out of appropriate and truthful insults for these maggot cockroaches. And yes, cockroaches

is intentional.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. What would America do without a FB/Twitter? Seriously, it would be boredom forever, right?

Is anything on social media actually….backlash? It’s words in the ethershpere! Soon to pass. Half life is around 12 hours, more or less.

[IronLionZion]

12. Liberal customers would be nicer and tip better anyway

so they're better off without MAGA types

When Woke opened Jan. 19, however, Quiroga faced different stresses. The controversy spurred other residents to support the restaurant, which led to long lines and sold-out menu items.

Publicity can go both ways. Plenty of new customers are hearing about a place they'd like to visit.

[robbob]

13. Maybe WE need to adopt their slogan:

“You woke up and made the right choice”! It’s good to see most people in that area choose to ignore bigotry and support her business. Also, they have merch, if you’d like to own a “woke” coffee mug…

[niyad]

16. Proof positive that some people have wayyyyy too much time on their hands.

[Botany]

17. I predict that the restaurant will do a brisk business .... Connecticut is very blue

If I am ever around Coventry, Conn I would go there.

BTW "woke" as the right uses it is a totally made up meme just like CRT, The Twitter Files, and DeSantis'
war on children's book.

BTW part 2 I just ordered this book for my granddaughter because DeSantis has tried to ban it.

[niyad]

20. As a matter of curiosity, what is wrong with that book, according to deathsentence?

[Botany]

21. I heard the author interviewed and DeSantis was giving red meat to his base because the book had ...

... the main characters being Asian and that makes white kids sad.

[niyad]

22. OFFS! He really needs to stop wasting oxygen.

[Botany]

23. The mother fucker needs to stop actively spreading C-19 and shipping human beings around America

n/t

[doc03]

24. We need to trademark "woke". OSU tried that with "the" nt

[tiredtoo]

25. The radical wing nuts are losing it

I put up a billboard prior to last election and it wasn't up an hour when the owner called me and said he had to take it down. He was getting too many threats. Shame.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

26. They're r fucking loco! So happy I belong to the woke group, the normal team...

Woke definition ...hadn't realized there was one, that is other than past tense of wake, pero but works for me! Mida, look search a bit and wtf..it's in the dictioary...since when ? Ok I'll bite... [ Note unedited..be back in a minute .]

Wikipedia
woke
/wōk/
Learn to pronounce
verb
past of wake1.

National World article on Woke
What does woke mean?
The old meaning of the word defines woke as simply the “past simple of wake”, as in to wake up, or awake.

In a modern sense, the meaning of the word has changed a lot, and in 2017, the new meaning of the word woke was officially added to the dictionary.


Described by Merriam-Webster as “chiefly US slang”, the dictionary defines the word as: “Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”



Marriam-Webster
woke
1 of 2
adjective
ˈwōk
woker; wokest
Synonyms of woke
chiefly US slang
1
: aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)
But we will only succeed if we reject the growing pressure to retreat into cynicism and hopelessness. … We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active; challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises.
—Barbara Lee

[lees1975]

27. I'd go often if I lived there.

And I have some conservative friends who I would treat to breakfast there.