‘Straight couples only’ particular scratched from well-known restaurant after proprietor slammed for viral video | EUROtoday

A Cajun restaurant that featured on a well-liked Guy Fieri meals present has sparked outrage for providing a meal particular just for the “real kind of couple” that “can produce a child.”

Darwell Yeager and his spouse Nettie, who run Darwell’s Happiness Cafe in Long Beach, Mississippi, shared a particular provide with prospects in a Facebook video Wednesday to rejoice Couples Day — which is often noticed yearly on August 18.

“Darwell’s,” the proprietor sings initially of the video whereas his spouse dances beside him. “If you come in and you’re a couple no longer, how long have you been together —dating, married— if you’re a couple?”

“Husband, wife. Boyfriend, girlfriend. Guy and girl couple. The ‘real kind’ of the couple,” he continued, gesturing air quotes.

Nettie Yeager jumped in, sporting a pair of outsized sun shades.

“Oh, cuz we don’t do the trans or the lesbians or gays,” she mentioned. “I’m sorry, that’s out on the street.”

“Can produce a child couple,” Darwell Yeager added. “We’ll give you something free. How do you like that, folks?”

“Real food for real people, made for real couples,” he signed off as he pointed down the digicam lens.

The video has since gone viral after a close-by restaurant, the Trax Bar and Grill, posted a display screen recording when it was taken down from the Darwell’s Happiness Cafe Facebook web page.

“I am almost speechless. Almost. His weird antics were tolerable at best until this video but not anymore,” Trax Bar and Grill’s proprietor Jessica Notter wrote. “The disgust I feel for statements made in this video is immeasurable.”

The restaurant, which was featured on Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and named one in all Forbes’ eating places of the 12 months in 2016, has sparked a backlash from different native companies, LGBTQ+ communities, and social media customers.

The Gulf Coast Equality Council, a non-profit group that helps LGBTQ+ communities and their allies, voiced its disapproval in a video assertion launched Thursday. The press launch said that “no one should be made to feel unwelcome simply for being who they are.”

Angela Singletary, president of the anti-bullying group The Society, mentioned a peaceable protest exterior the restaurant is predicted on Friday.

“It’s important that we don’t allow this kind of discrimination and these kinds of comments to… just go. We can’t just let them go,” Singletary mentioned.

After a swathe of backlash, Nettie Yeager issued an apology on her private Facebook account and cited her spiritual views.

Mississippi’s Religious Liberty Accommodations Act was handed into legislation in 2016. It offers organizations the suitable to refuse service to members of the LGTBQ+ group—which makes up 3.5 p.c of the state’s inhabitants—based mostly on spiritual views.

“I’m not perfect and I get my feelings hurt too,” she wrote. “Not always right. But I’m human too… I’m truly sorry if you got offended or misunderstood something not meant to hurt anyone.

According to NOLA, Darwell reposted the apology on his Facebook page six times, but the posts were removed by Friday morning.

He added that in his own statement that he was “tired of being bullied by the left.”