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The White Moose Café, located in Dublin, posted a plea to vegan customers asking for a kind heads up before coming into the restaurant with the expectation that they could eat a full vegan meal at the drop of a hat.
**ATTENTION VEGANS**Please do not waltz into our cafe with no advance notice and look at us as if we have ten heads…
Posted by The White Moose Café on Thursday, August 13, 2015
Once the vegan community caught wind of this, all hell broke loose. Taking to the café’s Facebook page in large numbers, they received over 2,000 one-star reviews. Unfortunately, the hate spewed at the restaurant for allegedly being “anti-vegan” caused the restaurant’s exposure to spread like wildfire, prompting a trolling post from the owner who had published the original Facebook update.
Precious vegans,We have received over 2,000 1 star reviews on our café over the past 24 hours. Using some of the…
Posted by The White Moose Café on Saturday, October 24, 2015
With their “no publicity is bad publicity” attitude, they went on to update their Facebook page with a vegan shaming cartoon to further stoke the fire.
(Side note: shout out to potatoes for keeping it the realest.)
From the exposure, the five-star reviews for The White Moose Café have no eclipsed the one-star reviews, which is probably the biggest middle finger of them all when it comes to the agenda the vegan army set out with.
…and this week alone they’ve seen their Facebook likes go up 18,735.1%.
You’d think the trolling would stop there after all the success the restaurant is having, but it hasn’t. In fact, it’s picked up in a huge way.
They’ve posted a dog who was (allegedly) having the special of the day, the beef rib sliders.
We have a very special diner in The White Moose Café today. He is having the Rib Beef Slider. Dogs like Disney are…
Posted by The White Moose Café on Thursday, October 22, 2015
They’ve offered a weekend away for one lucky couple who provide a five-star review.
I'm loving all the negative reviews we have been receiving over the past hour or two posted by seemingly every vegan who…
Posted by The White Moose Café on Thursday, October 22, 2015
They’ve even had a special price for their “meat-rich” Irish Breakfast.
**SPECIAL OFFER ON FULL IRISH BREAKFAST – ONE DAY ONLY**Seeing as we have had so many vegans trying to 'turn' us over…
Posted by The White Moose Café on Saturday, October 24, 2015
So yeah, you could say The White Moose Café is doing juuuuuuust fine. .
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How can you find out of someone is vegan?….
They’ll tell you.
I’m tired of the country having to bend over backwards for every single person. If a restaurant doesn’t have a vegan menu, don’t go there demanding they make one then complain you’re being discriminated against. The things people are doing in this country are really getting out of hand.
In this case, “this country” refers to Ireland
Nothing better to do at work so I just gave them a five star review. PGP.
But what about gluten?!?