A Florida shop had to scrap its ice cream cone mascot because passers-by thought it looked like a man dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.
"We were just trying to get people to come in," store employee Jasmine Gonzalez told CNN affiliate WTSP. "We thought it was something fun for people, but eventually people took it the wrong way."
The Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches shop opened a few months ago in Ocala. The owners hired a man to stand outside the shop dressed in a vanilla ice cream cone costume to attract business.
At first store owners told WTSP they had no idea the outfit was upsetting passers-by, but then they noticed a drop in business, and began to wonder what was impacting their sales.
Eventually, Gonzalez said they were tipped off that people were avoiding the shop, because they thought the peaked cap was not an ice cream cone costume, but a KKK robe. The mascot was immediately pulled off the street.
Some customers told WTSP they could understand the confusion, while others laughed at the ordeal.
"They (KKK members) don't color themselves (with sprinkles) like that," Wayne Austin chuckled to WTSP as he looked at the costume.
I guess the CONE part of the Ice Cream Cone wasn't obvious enough.
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This just shows how screwed up this country is!
floriDUH cant tell a come when they see it? morons
Really? People can be so dumb and oversensitive!
Welcome to the USA.
That is the most stupid thing I read.
That is just straight ignorant! I am black, and even though the thought "may" enter your head, it is CLEARLY an ice cream cone.
you've got to be mother fncking kidding me... bunch of jacktards. besides wastes of oxygen, who confuses an icecream cone with a garbed Klan. oh wait! no one.
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No one is forcing you to read this article. Sometimes people like to read funny, silly and/or stupid stories.
i hope they all go to hell
Amen....
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Chocolate lovers beware the Klu Kreme Kone! He'll scoop you up and tar and feather you with fudge and candy sprinkles lickety-split!
This reminds me of the time I stumbled into a KKK meeting looking for an ice cream cone.
If people think that an ice cream cone looks like a KKK costume, I'd hate to find out what they think of all the people that dress up as ghosts for Halloween.
lol
Oh God, People see what they want to see. GROW UP. How many KKK members have cone designed sheets with sprinkles?