Whole Foods Sued For Homophobic Slur On Cake
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2016
- A gay pastor in Austin is claiming that when he ordered a cake from Whole Foods, someone working in the bakery put a gay slur onto the cake. Pastor Jordan Brown uploaded a video of the cake and is now suing the company. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A gay pastor in Austin, Texas accused a local Whole Foods store of discrimination for adding a homophobic slur to his cake order, KXAN-TV reported.
Jordan Brown was scheduled to give a press conference on Monday following the release of a video detailing the incident.
He says in the short video that he went to the company’s flagship store on April 14 and ordered a cake bearing the inscription, “Love wins.” An employee complied with the request, sealing the cake with a sticker.
Brown’s lawsuit stated that he caught the slur written on the cake - which Brown intended to give to a congregation member - after driving away from the store. The video shows the cake inside the box bearing the company’s logo, and Brown also displays his receipt.”*
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Who orders a cake and doesn't check to make sure it's done the right way?
+Devil's advocate I'm gay and I can confirm your claim. I hate when I get home and see McDonalds gave me half the fries I paid for.
+Devil's advocate That's uncalled for. Please stop with the hateful language.
This was fake.
Um I've done it before. I was rushed and just glanced over it not really paying attention to it and found out its wrong when I got home. So yeah it happens. People aren't always paying attention just because their looking at something. Just saying that it happens. Not often, but enough.
I agree, this feels like bullshit. Not saying it is for sure, but to me the story doesn't add up.
Hint: If you're gonna pull a stunt like this, don't do it at a gay-friendly store like Whole Foods.
Man I bet y'all feel stupid AF
Hay do you want to sign a petition to help pandas keep getting boners
FAKE....Who doesn't look thru the clear plastic window to make sure they got the message right on the cake you ordered? NO ONE. Sue this con man's ass off and file charges with the police.
TRUTHHHHHHH
TBH if I'm not in the car when my family picks up a cake it won't get checked. I've literally had a few birthday cakes brought home with my name misspelled. Btw I'm not siding with this man, it does seem like he looked at the cake therefore this might clearly be a fraud.
+Emmë Cross Exactly. I've got 3 kids and it's happened at least twice to me in the past 14 years of their birthdays. If you're busy, you don't think about details, you're just trying to get shit done.
even though the box is sealed
+dog guy That's not a tamper-proof seal...its just a sticker. Everyone knows you can steam open an envelope, why not a price sticker? Why would anyone do this? I can give you a million reasons.
LGBTQ+ Supporting gay pastor? I want him 👁👄👁
No you don't
Lol ikr same
Harry shut you homophobic ass up
@@Tombstone-ri2ts ok homophobe
If you guys don't know what it means it means ppl don't like LGBTQ + i think...
the cake is a lie
jacktheripped fat
Let them eat cake
fake
I worked at wholefoods bakery before . They have to show you the cake before they box it up, and like Ana said the cover was transparent. It's fake.
He obviously saw it right away. He didn't say anything a first because he saw a chance to make a story out of it (rightfully so), and maybe get some cash from a lawsuit. He fucked up by saying he didn't see it until he got into his car. He's trying to hide the fact that he immediately realized Whole Foods had just handed him a payday.
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mmhhmm
That's America for you.
+superp25 Notice where the upc label is when the cashier scanned it. Then notice where it is when Austin showed it on his home made video. The upc label magically shifted from the top to the side.....
m.statesman.com/news/business/whole-foods-taking-legal-action-against-cake-accus/nq7qt/
the fact he goes out of his way to show that its still sealed in a box, for anyone but the courts, makes it obvious he's trying to make a spectacle and cover his tracks. If this was legit, that wouldn't matter in a press release, and would be a matter for the courts. He's waaaay too excited to show off his dirty work and draw attention to it.
Yes!
Look at the two videos again. In the pastor's video there is nothing on top of the cake box and the label covers the side and bottom of the box as a seal. Now look at the surveillance video. As the customer leaves with the cake, it clear that there is a white label on top of the box. The cashier appears to scan the top of the box with a hand scanner as this suggests the UPC label was on top of the box.
Let's analyze the pastor's video again: the UPC label used to seal the box also has the price on it, but the price is at the bottom of the box. Does anyone find that suspicious that a bakery would put the price at the bottom? Also this was a custom order by all accounts. Why is it sealed to begin with? I've never owned a bakery but I would assume that you don't seal a custom order until after the customer inspects it. After all if there is a mistake with the message it can be corrected right away before the customer leaves.
minnowshark ok
I've worked in a bakery before and can tell you I've never once seen a person pick up a cake without looking at it. This is a scam. Possible this guy is working with one of the bakers.
The Cake is a Lie
Cake is never a lie, my friend! 😉
Cake is a lie!
Ok, so if you're working in a bakery and decide to write something like that on a cake, wouldn't you immediately think about the fact that it's going to be picked up at the bakery counter and the person is almost certainly going to look at the cake when they receive it and be upset by it? Nothing about this adds up.
Gay pastor? He has already lost all credibility.
there are gay pastors
+JerryAttrick SexPistol The Bible is craycray
Is it sad that I would still eat the cake
"A gay PASTOR from TEXAS". I'm more concerned about this.
Idk. I honestly have no idea who’s side I’m on.
Explain
Naief The goony I cant tell if he’s telling the truth... I don’t think he is
LEA DIAZ I watched it and I LITERALLY can’t tell who’s telling the truth
Therealpaul Kaminsky that’s not what I’m saying. I myself am a strong ally. However I can’t tell if he’s telling the truth. You can see the video and you can see he looks at it. Idk
Therealpaul Kaminsky I know that might’ve happened but based on what Whole Foods was saying and there was video evidence that he might’ve written it after plus the handwriting didn’t really look the same but nevertheless if that did happen then that’s just so terrible for something like that to happen.
I don't believe him.
He didn't see it when he received it, he didn't see it when he paid for it, he only saw it when he was in the car - but instead of going back in to complain, and get some witnesses in case he wants to sue, he decided to drive home and make a video about it - and then sue. Okay. :D
Lol, makes perfect sense
Everyone who buys a cake...... with writing on it..... is going to look at it immediately to see what is written on the cake. This guy is a con artist out for money.
I agree with you, but think about this... The lady that burned herself with McDonalds hot coffee was just a con artists who was out for $$ too. The problem is that some con artists get paid some of the time and that is just feeding the delema.
He set the gay movement back 5 years.
Girl we have republicans afraid to speak out against us. We run shit.
Seems like a scam to me.. It's just to blatant for a bakery to try to pull off and for no one to notice..
"Gay Pastor Apologizes After Accusing Whole Foods of Writing Slur on Chocolate Cake"
The cake was a lie
noticed it when he got in his car? wouldn't you IMMEDIATELY return to the bakery and say, "WTF"
+nonreligionist
They would then have the opportunity of taking it back, and then the evidence is gone.
Also, physical confrontations with homophobic people may not be his "thing".
+Abiezer Coppe there are phones with cameras these days that can record video. Having visited Whole Foods, I'd have to say there are a progressive company that is inclusive of the LGBT. Having been to Austin, that is also a progressive town. There used to be a popular, homeless transgender man that ran for mayor a few times named Leslie. Whole Foods also noted that the person that decorated the cake was a LGBT member and high unlikely to write that smear on his cake.
The cake is literally a lie.
How could he have not seen it? and how would they know he was gay?
I work at a bakery similar to Whole Foods and I can smell bullshit all over this. I work with those label tapes for price seals all the time and the adhesive used is extremely weak when exposed to extreme cold temperatures like a freezer. You can easily to take it off and put it back on without any visible trauma.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if the cake order said "Love Wins FAC" or "FAO" and he changed that C/O into a G. Considering the relative neatness of the other letters, that G looks sloppy. Once again by freezing the cake, you can lift and manipulate parts of iced letters without showing visible trauma. It takes some practice but it can be done especially if the iced letters was done in rose icing.
Hm, in his video the label is on the side sealing the box. In the store surveillance video, you can clearly see the cashier scan a white label on top of the box that wasn't on his video... Sketchy.
Look closely at the video in the store. The label is on the top of the box, wrapping over to the side. In his video, the label is on the side of the box, wrapping under to the bottom. He clearly tampered with the box, and yet claims that he never did. Caught in a blatant lie right there.
OMG! Stop making hate cake! Its cake it's supposed to be happy!
This story is even more fake than Ana's nose.
Oh shit!
First of all, A GAY PREACHER. Enough said.
This was immediately dismissed as false by....nearly everyone...
The cake was a lie...
A gay pastor ?! That's a new one
The first thing you do when you have a message on ANYTHING you look at it before you buy it. Not buying it, ironically.
He sued, they countersued and he dropped his lawsuit, but he never admitted he did it, but it is assumed because he dropped his lawsuit after the countersuit and they had camera evidence. I wonder if they proceeded he would have lied on the stand, he is a pastor after all. That would have been ironic.
90% chance this is a fraud. 10% chance it was a crazy employee, but no way Whole Foods supports this so the lawsuit is still BS.
They are going after his lawyer too for filing a frivolous lawsuit. I hope they win their $100,000 defamation lawsuit against the pastor and bankrupt him.
More news on this story broke about how the label and bar code of the cake is on top of the box in the video at the store. Also the icing of the word is clearly not as thick as the others. Total fraud, but not surprising coming from a pastor.
Low key want him to go on the Steve wilkos show and take a lie detector test
Desperate pig 🐖😘😉 why are ppl so eager to not believe him
All they have to do is check the cameras and the lawsuit is settled. Plus I once ordered groceries delivered to my home and only tipped 5 dollars and the label for my groceries said "Dirty". Don't put it past employees to do this. Also don't put it past scammers to hustle. Let the courts decided.
He probably noticed right away and thought "meal ticket"
"Whatever you are watching sounds like a chipmunk" ~my GF
The cake is a lie
"Someone I the bakery wrote... Uhhhhh aayyyeeeee uhhhhhhh.... Gay slur" 😂😂😭😭 why she stutter?!...
It sounded like she stumbled on the word, like she was about to say racist (out of habit or smth)
@@fairyduckling *homophobic, not racist
@@terrariums. she sounded like she was going to say racist instead of homophobic
@@fairyduckling ohhh, ok
In addition to all the other hinky details which make you doubt his story, the preposterous idea that an employee would write that on a cake and hand it to him, not to mention the unlikeliness that they would know he was gay, his being a pastor which is basically a scam artist, I want to also point out, looking at the nature of his story, it's pretty obvious that this scam was inspired by past news stories about cakes.
And he admitted he lied about it all! Glad to hear Whole Foods is suing him for Slander!
If you noticed when he got in the car, why didn't he walk back in the store?
Instead he drives home to make a video?
Well if it got resolved then and there he wouldn't be able to sue them and get $$$ now would he?
_Fantastic Point!_
He's lying.
I THINK IT'S FUNNY, I DON'T BELIEVE THE GUY. HE'S TRYING TO MAKE SOME FAST MONEY.
he has admitted to writing that himself the cake maker is a member of the lgbt community herself
LOL that brother is trying to get free organic pita chips for life
+M Valle Hahah! He's a hustle!
I don't understand how you can be a gay pastor. Isn't being gay a sin in Christianity? So would that mean he's a pastor living a sinful life?
+The Man Don't try to understand religion, you never will.
if you have a special request for a cake. you always check it before you purchase it!
+Justina Williams yeah..cuz I mean people don't space out or just have shit days all the time or anything...
*_The Cake Is A Lie!!!!!_*
Who doesn't check to see if they put the right words on their cake?
I worked briefly in the bakery at Safeway. We didn't seal custom cakes. We left them open so the customer can see it first.
+touchedinthehead hi
+Roland Taylor (RolandiXor) *awkward wave
Your name made me laugh that's why I said hi lol
This is a hoax..fraud. Who orders a custom cake with writing on it and doesn't IMMEDIATELY look at it when picking it up??
couldn't he have just peeled the sticker back, write it, then re-seal it?
Young Turds Reporting: Whole Foods guilty until proven innocent, Wrong again!
Fred yes they always wrong
To be honest, I was inclined to believe him if not for the fact that he is a pastor. The role of pastor always attracts a special kind of self righteous, scumbag scam artists.
The cake looks like it's written in two different colors and fonts? Like two different people decorated that cake.
Imagine what that employee would go through on social media once his/her name was released, threats of violence, name dragged through the mud.
It's bullshit because the check out clerk scans the TOP of the box where the sticker was but magically the sticker appears on the SIDE later.
He made it up, Whole Foods is suing his ass for defamation and good for them. The ironic part is the person who decorated the cake is LGBT.
The person who decorated the cake is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender? Come on man
I would have just eaten the cake..
Superior Scream o_o
Did not think of that...
he so easily tried to convince it was still sealed.
"The grocery store said the bakery team member who decorated the cake is a member of the LGBTQ community and that other team members confirmed that the cake only said 'Love Wins.' - KTLA 5. That's a little suspicious.
A gay pastor ?? Lol
+Paul Saldana Yup. There are tons of gay friendly churches in every state. My cousin is a gay pastor in California.
That's what I was thinking 🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭
Turn out the pastor fake the whole thing.
Why the F, would anyone make a notion about the fact that he didn't break open the box. Completely irrelevant, unless you wan't to make extra sure that people know you didn't open the box... Seems very fishy.
He had his cake and thought he could eat it too
Yeah my bullshit detector is on high alert right about now.
How the hell did they know he was gay?
The "Love Wins" hashtag was for marriage equality.
Because of the saying "love wins". It's what everyone was saying when the Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage is constitutional.
Because he ask them to put love wins
I'm not surprised he didn't read the cake before he paid for it, because he obviously didn't read the bible before he became a pastor.
As someone who works in a bakery at my local grocery store, when we hand a customer a customized cake, we are required to open the box and show them the cake to make sure it is what they wanted. I know that isn't the case everywhere, but I'd like to think that most bakery clerks would confirm the cake to make sure they are matching it with the right customer.
He should have thought about this...
It's come out that it's a complete hoax tyt. Do your homework
+Eugene Sidebottom III Maybe you should watch the video because they go over that and they think it could be false.
meeg_2005 Even if Ahmeds was trying to get that response it does not matter. 1) They did not act like the clock was a bomb, they did not call the bomb squad, evaluate the school or anything else you should do when there is a threat of a bomb. I 2) He told them it was just a clock, it looked like a clock, there was no C4 or any other explosive looking stuff attached. He never said "look I got a bomb" The school acted in an incorrect fashion independent of Ahmed's actions. So not even closely the same even if this is a hoax.
But sure keep using pejoratives, that will help us take you seriously.
meeg_2005 I do not think I have missed the point at all as I do not think it was a Hoax bomb - I think It was a clock. He showed the clock to his engineering teacher first and said "look I made an electronic clock". At no time did he refer to it as anything other than a clock. The correct response from the teachers is “Coo nice clock, but listen science is awesome and all but people could get the wrong idea”. Which is what his engineering teacher said, what his English teacher said was “Eeeek the Muslim kid has a bomb”, “No it’s a just a clock”, “I don’t believe you!” and then acted in the exact manner you should do even for a hoax bomb. Also multiple white students have done the same with NO bomb scares. One of my mates used to do bomb disposal for his military service in Israel. Two things always pissed him off. First, wire colours mean nothing but what the maker wants them to so all this “Cut the red one” stuff is stupid. 2) Some do not look like what most of the Hollywood’s movies make them out to look like, infact they can look like anything. I can’t blame them for leaving if they did, why stay where you are not wanted.
Yes people lie and scheme and maybe you are right that Ahmeds family did this hoping for nee jerk reaction but the school was in control of their actions and the acted the wrong way. But the three cases are COMPLETELY different. If this cake deal is a hoax then the store is nothing but a victim, they could have done nothing different and I hope the store nails this dude’s ass (no pun intended). The school could have acted differently and more measured. The Columbia deal was way worse since it was not harassment but rape. Now the thing that worries me is that when some real shit goes down people will be afraid to act or believe the real BS that happens. But to make that call I need compelling evidence. With the clock I do not see that other than a few people being upset he got stuff. There was not guarantee that the story would have blown up (there I go again) and gotten the attention it did. He could have just gotten in serious trouble or worse he could have gotten shot. Sounds like a stupid scheme to me.
You know what would have proved this was a scheme. If the media had gotten all the raw parts and put him on the spot to remake it. If he had of going through a lot of time and effort to make it from scratch rather than break a clock and put it in a brief case then it would have been clear it was just a clock and not a scheme. Same if he could not do it. But screw that lets go for sensationalism!
How do you pick up a cake from the bakery, walk it to the cash register, stand next to it on the conveyor belt and not peek at the customized message? Bs
its a cake ... you don't read it, you eat it.
The cake is a lie....
Boy are you late reporting the facts on this one. Whole Foods has thoroughly debunked this scam artist's claims and has released a statement that they are going to sue this guy (And his lawyer). This con artist is going to get what's coming to him.
It is plausible him doing it for money. People here are sue happy.
SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT AS OBSERVANT AS YOU. He may have looked at the cake, but his mind may have been elsewhere. It's not unheard of.
look at the location of the label. it's in a completely different place in the two videos
Also, in his video, the box is green an the top, brown on the sides. But in the store video, the box is entirely green.
I think I know what happened the gay pastor pealed off the sticker and rewrote it of he asked them to write that on the cake and I'm sure he would have recorded in his car but when he records he is already in the kitchen that is sus
I understand everyone's skepticism, but what leads me to believe that he is not lying is the seal. If the cake is indeed sealed, then I find it unlikely that he is lying.
Yeh bcuz its impossible to reseal it right, dont be naive
He could have seen that before, don't buy it for a moment
I have never picked up a cake that I didn't look at the special order decorations before I accept it and pay. I have always been shown the cakes for the "o.k." and correct spelling. Not buying it for a min. He's been a minister since age 14. Can you say "prayers for profit"?
Win or lose this case.. that guys got a really weak looking cake
Being a pastor doesn't mean shit you can buy yourself a pastor certificate from a divinity "school" online for $20.
He's not the brightest criminal out there...
Guys don't judge immediately, TYT took Whole Foods side and acknowledge the pastor is probably lying
Fake pastor. No official Christian organization would allow a pastor being gay. You literally can't be a pastor and be gay it just doesn't work. you can read Bible if you don't believe me.
Condor DM they're not real Christians man. the Bible condemns being gay. And the priests that you're talking about are not coming out as being gay because as soon as they do they get kicked out of being a priest. Just look at what Pope Francis did when he met a gay priest.
he opened the back of the box to manipulate the cake and still show the front "seal" on it. next
Actually he took the seal off and placed it back on. In the surveillance video you can see the seal is on the top, but in his picture it's on the bottom.
I heard that this pastor pulled his car over when he saw the cake and called the corporate office and left a message. Then called the store itself and they apologized and asked him to take photos. If this had really occurred, why didn't he just turn around and go back to Whole Foods and explain the situation instead of waiting to get home and take photos. Just ridiculousness on the pastor's part.
I was just thinking, if this was real, what would a logical person do? But, yeah I agree with you. if you see the surveillance footage, the employee so obviously scanned the top of the box. Not the side where the label was on in the pastor's video.
The cashier scanned the box on the top and to the side. But when Austin showed footage of the cake box, the upc label ended up on the side of the box. This is a clear case of fraud.
I stopped the video after she said gay pastor
I don't know with this story, everything seems fishy!
The guy's lying. I used to work at an in-store bakery, decorating cakes. Let me tell you when customers pick their cakes up, they look at them to make sure the decoration and writing are what they ordered.
+laurie spencer I know - because a few years ago I realized that, as an adult, I didn't have to wait for my birthday to buy a birthday cake! I also realized that I could get them to write anything on the cake - they have to write what you ask, cuz it's like bakery law or something...so I get them to write things like, "Cake decorators are stupid." HILARIOUS. I'll stand their and watch them write it, and sneer at them as they scowl at me while handing over my cake. Then I go to my car and I eat the whole thing, washing it down with a jug of chocolate milk. True story.
I haven't done it but I've seen comments elsewhere on this topic- take a larger photo into Photoshop (or GIMP) and take color samples of the writing. It's clearly a different color with far more yellow, easily confused by the eye but not by software.
Personally, he lost me at seeing it in the car. Who wouldn't immediately walk back in and demand a manager? Who instead seeks a news conference?
We got chicken that was clearly spoiled and, despite being disabled and in a lot of pain, I drove back across town to take it to Whole Food and called a manager up to SMELL IT. They immediately pulled all similar packages from the shelves and offered us a full refund plus a gift card. That's merely a spoiled product, not HATE SPEECH.
I find it excruciatingly hard to believe he didn't see it, the cashier didn't see it, and any bigot would have written it on there with a huge clear lid on the box to begin with.
It was the only purchase he had. How could he not even look at it?
LGBTQ peoples, I am fully behind you. Please don't misunderstand this stance. I think this is a scam. I don't know why he would do it but I am having serious difficulty believing this happened for a plethora of reasons.
I watched his video first, for the record. I didn't believe it then, either. He spoke like Data (no contractions while denying he opened it).
So much is suspect here.
Was the cake supporting the Film Actors Guild? Also, why did he even take the cake home? Why not say something at the store? Or.... At the register? Or... Any where before you got home and got your camera out? I call bullshit on this.