New Jersey Restaurant Sorry For “Proud Boys Burger”

The New Jersey Advance reports:

The phone at Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails has been ringing off the hook for days. Its email inbox has been flooded with hundreds of passionate messages. The restaurant has been a popular fixture of the Toms River scene for the past 13 years. But attention like this? Never. “It’s a nightmare,” owner Cathy Varriale said. The reason: the Proud Boys Burger, a short-lived special that Varriale said she deeply regrets.

“We truly do apologize,” she told NJ Advance Media in an occasionally emotional phone interview. “It was a bad decision. It was stupidity. It was ignorance. But we do not support hatred or Nazism or any of that.” The Proud Boys Burger was put on Aqua Blu’s menu on Thursday, made of “white American cheese, onion ring layers of truth, resilience pickles, freedom fries, cancel culture coleslaw, and liberty sauce.”

Read the full article. Previous specials have included the “Sleepy Joe Burger” and the “Trump Burger,” but the owner claims that the Proud Boys Burger was suggested by a server whose husband is on deployment and she thought that the item was a reference to him, not the Proud Boys – whom she also claims to never have heard of. Yeah.