March 30, 2025
The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reports:
A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant came under fire after posting a video offering a free food deal to straight people only. The LGBTQ community is boycotting the business, and the owners’ stances on the matter have been erratic, swinging from backing the decision to apologizing before once again justifying their actions. Now, they’re defending the move.
On Tuesday, March 25, Darwell Yeager III and Nettie Mechelle Yeager shared a free food deal at Darwell’s Happiness Cafe in Long Beach.
Both spelled out that trans, lesbian and gay couples could not get the deal. Only heterosexual couples, regardless of how long they’d been together. In the following days, the owners have invoked President Donald Trump’s goal to “end to all this wokeness” and briefly shared a MAGA discount before deleting it.
The New York Post reports:
A Mississippi eatery that appeared on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-ins and, Dives” is facing backlash after its owners posted a video offering “something free” to only straight couples that stopped by to eat at the Cajun joint on Tuesday.
“If you come in and you’re a couple … husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, guy, girl couple, the real kind of couple,” Darwell Yeager said before his spouse cut in and said, “Because we don’t do the trans or the lesbian or gays, I’m sorry.”
“When you come in for the next hour and a half and you are a couple, can-produce-a-child couple, we’ll give you something free,” Darwell Yeager concluded in the since-deleted video that has spread online.
There’s a lot more at the first link, including multiple quotes from the couple’s now-deleted Facebook posts. The screenshot above is from a local station’s regular feature, “In The Kitchen With Darwell’s Happiness Cafe.” You should watch the video below.
MS Restaurant Offers Free Food To Straights Only
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These folk would do well to consider this ‘A House Divided Against itself will not stand.’
If after a long day in which no one came, and they needed the custom if their only customers as the day drew to an end were LGBT+ would they turn them away?
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They’re gonna find out that those hated ‘woke’ (gay OR straight) people have much longer memories than the bigot shitheads they’re cultivating.
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Damn right!
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Wow! Unbelievable. I will never understand why everyone cannot see that we are all people period!
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Hi Mam Win. I think it gives them a feeling of being better, being above someone else if they can find a reason to insult or hate them. These owners were not harmed by gay people, they wanted to hurt some people, they wanted a feeling of being more important. I have a privilege you don’t. They enjoy the hateful feelings. Hugs
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I went to their website: BBQ pork, shrimp sandwich, crawdaddy burger, shrimp and grits, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo … you get the picture: bottom feeders. Place looks like it used to be a car shop …
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Hi Ten Bears. I love your description. Not a place I will ever want to visit as I am seriously allergic to shrimp and shellfish foods. One bit and I go into anaphylactic shock. My throat closes up so I can’t breathe and my mouth blisters all up. If I don’t have an EpiPen with me or close to a hospital I can die. I take it seriously. One fork full of crab meat put me in a military hospital for a week. I was able to stagger into the common area where people were before I collapsed. I woke up in the hospital. I did not know I was allergic until then. I had bought the can to just try it. Ron and I went to a restaurant across from a hospital. They had Spanish rice which I loved. But they made theirs with shrimp. First forkful I knew I was in serious trouble so Ron rushed me to the ER. I did not have an EpiPen with me. Last time I ever ate Spanish rice. Good thing was the restaurant did not charge us for the meal. Hugs
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The point I was making is they’re a bunch of bible thumping homophobes eating bottom-feeders: pork, shellfish
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disgusting how those “good christians” all act like Nero instead of Jesus.
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Hi Suze. Hate for hate’s sake. It is hard to see how it helps any business to exclude an entire segment of the buying public from their business. But the feeling of hating a minority makes them feel superior. They love the rush of power gives hate gives them. IMO. Hugs
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They just drive away clientele with such things. Like flying a Confederate flag outside. People won’t go there, there doesn’t even need to be a boycott.
It isn’t as if there aren’t LGBTQ+ Cajun/Creole cooks in Louisiana.
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Hi Ali. You are correct but as I replied to others the feelings of power the hate gives them is addictive to them. It makes them feel superior, they feel like they are the in group. It becomes addictive for them the more they hate the better they feel. So they hate more. It doesn’t matter if it costs them, the feeling is all they want. Hugs
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