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A Washington D.C.-based pizzeria is facing backlash for their newest offering. Their “Marion Berry” dessert features various disappointing drug references to the city’s former mayor, Marion Barry.
As spotted on TMZ, a restaurant is clout chasing at the expense of the late politician’s name. Last week, an establishment called &pizza launched a new item with called the “Marion Berry Knots,” a serving of doughy balls filled with fruit and topped with vanilla icing. Drizzled on top is powdered sugar, and this is where the disrespect comes in. Their advertising collateral says, “THESE KNOTS WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!” A caption of “Bump up the party with our all-new Marion Berry Knots! It’s criminal how good these are,” can be found another piece. Additionally, the pizzeria uses a photo of the sugar piled up next to a tray resembling a cocaine serving.
Naturally, the item soon went viral sparking outrage within the community. On Wednesday (Oct. 16), locals showed up at the restaurant to protest the location. The local NAACP chapter president Akosua Ali expressed her disappointment as well. “The life, legacy, lineage and name of Marion Barry deserves to be remembered as a pioneer for economic development, real-estate development, black business empowerment, youth employment and as the Mayor of the people. Mayor Barry taught us the power of economics and today, we call on the community to demand &pizza right this egregious wrong.”
Marion Barry’s wife has confirmed with NBC Washington that the family has “requested that the attorneys for the Estate of Marion Barry Jr. look into the matter and act accordingly.” The former politician served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and served another term from 1995 to 1999. In 1990, he was infamously caught on video smoking crack and propositioning a prostitute as part of a sting operation.
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Cardi B is not the one to hold her tongue. She recently chimed in on controversy surrounding the Atlanta food scene.
The Bronx, New York, native has been living in Atlanta for some time after marrying Offset. According to HipHopDox, last week a popular social media food critic named Keith Lee recently conducted several reviews of the city’s most frequented eateries and while some locations hit the mark, many did not. As expected his content quickly went viral, and it seems that it landed on Bardi’s radar prompting her to give her two cents on the matter.
Last weekend she addressed the situation on Instagram Live. “I feel like Atlanta restaurants, they don’t like to make money,” she stated. “I feel like they don’t like people, they don’t like they customers, they just don’t f*cking like it. You could barely order in Atlanta restaurants.” Cardi B went on to further detail her struggles with getting food. “It gets to the point that I have to tell people that order food for me, ‘Can you just name-drop my name?’ Because they don’t do no pick up orders, they don’t do deliveries, they just don’t do sh*t.”
The “Press” rapper also made it clear the customer service also needs course correcting. “Even with the bougie restaurants, it’s not as bad as the Atlanta service. It’s like they treat you like they doing you a favor! Like, y’all want mothaf*ckas to come back?”
You can see Cardi’s rant below.
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Lil Baby is diversifying his portfolio. The Atlanta rapper recently opened his own seafood restaurant in his native Atlanta.
Baby, born Dominique Armani Jones, said he wanted to open a spot, The Seafood Menu Restaurant & Lounge, that catered to his own tastes. According to TMZ Hip Hop, he had some notables in attendance during the grand opening, too.
Reports TMZ:
The Quality Control rapper was flanked by a huge audience of supporters as Atlanta City Councilman Byron Amos commended Baby for opening the establishment in his old neighborhood … which, if you’re in the ATL, is located at 880 M.L.K. Jr Dr. SW.
Baby was holding his son Loyal and nodded as others received their credit for enduring the construction obstacles that delayed and threatened the restaurant’s creation.
Baby’s said to have been inspired by many restaurants’ resilience to stay open during the trying times of the pandemic and created a spot custom to his tastes.
Reportedly, one of the restaurant’s draws is that it boasts 7 unique sauces that include Caribbean jerk butter and lemon pepper butter.
Let us know if you’ll be stopping in during your next stop in Atlanta in the comments.
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