Drunken Negro Cookies: New York Baker's Offensive Obama Tribute

Lafayette French Bakery, a pastry shop in New York's Greenwich Village, started selling "Drunken Negro Face" cookies on Martin Luther King Day in 'honor' of President Obama.

One customer told My Fox NY that store owner Ted Kefalinos said to her, "Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They're in honor of our new president. He's following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his."

Kefalinos spoke with Gothamist, and denied suggesting that Obama would be assassinated. However, he saw nothing wrong with the cookies themselves.

Later, he apologized to the New York Daily News.

"I'm sorry that people were offended by the cookie. We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry."

In a followup interview with My Fox NY, Kefalinos said he had been getting death threats over the cookies. Watch:

Comments

[Rianna]

Bigots like this should not be tolerated. The good people of NYcity should stop patronizing this bakery.
Hit the guy where it hurts - in his wallet. No business means a big loss for him.

[loax]

That was not ar't, it was stupidity at its' highest form. Boycott this crrep New York! It is the only way idiots like this classeless jerks like this guy will learn that there are consequences for their actions.

[hortonhearsawho2]

maybe he could make pregnant Icees to honor sarah ?

[goodtomeetyou]

Next up, "going out of business" cookies.

[IRepTheKing]

We can only hope. We do have some twisted folks in this country who would support this. Sad to say but true.

[Amazin2u]

Kefalinos insists he can't be racist because, for one thing, "my brother-in-law, he's Cuban." ...utterly clueless.

[IRepTheKing]

the first sign of a racist is that they start spouting off how many nonwhite people they know. They are always able to count them off by hand. LOL

[rock2casbah]

Here is this very "Ethnic" guy himself, smack dab in the melting pot trying to sell racist baked goods? Bwhahahaha. He's just getting "threats".? That's an understatement.

[CR46]

I hope people find anaother bakery to shop at.

[harriettubman]

LOL, Mr. K will feel the impact of his of*f*en*sive joke this week. I can see the headlines now "declining sales force bakery out of business." Ha, ha, ha....

[Eric8869]

At least the drunk gay cookies would have had festive sprinkles.

[mrcontinental]

Looks like Rush Limbaugh with a tan to me.

[CR46]

I was thinking Karl Rove

[drewziGNY]

Really, I was thinking Bill O'Reilly's lost weekend

[theotherfringe]

There are reasons why we have test markets. Before you do something harebrained, you make sure it is going to go over well. Shoulda asked somebody first.

[winnie47]

It boggles the mind that in the 21st century, there are still such ignorant, bigoted people in this country. But I guess the GOP needs its base.

[zg1968]

He's not going to find much of a GOP base in Greenwich Village...

[learnsomething]

Exactly.

[theotherfringe]

"I'm sorry that people were offended by the cookie. We were just trying to make a large number of people happy, and instead we made a large number of people confused and angry."

Mr. Kefalinos is the one who is confused and angry. He is acting like a child who can't express his feeling properly. Now, he has put his business in jeopardy over something really ignorant.

[winnie47]

What large group of people was he trying to make happy? Was there a Klan convention in town?

[roch20]

LMAO!!! Best answer yet!!!!

[zg1968]

Funny - a Klan convention in Greenwich Village, as if. If this guy doesn't realize that the Village is ground zero for liberalism, he does not know his customer base at all.

Don't know how long this guy has been in business, but I suspect he will either be relocating his business soon or going to plan B. No way is that community going to support that kind of bs - even if he is a good baker....which after looking at that "cookie" I'm not sure he is.

[learnsomething]

Good question.

[suemag]

What the HELL IS that?

[drewziGNY]

Pure stup1dity. That's what it is.

[11907281]

The entire defense budget needs to be dumped into education.