*in protest of.
Keep eating their delicious pickles in protest of shitty headlines while you're at it
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From the headline, I couldn't tell whether they owned the booth and pulled out rather than taking more criticism, or whether someone else owned the booth, and they were pulling out because they were offended by their neighbors.
I realize the former is implied, but the wording is ambiguous enough that it could be the latter.
So to clear things up, I read the article... And the entire article is ambiguous about that exact point. To me, that's the most important detail. What, is that news source afraid of pissing off Big Pickle?
Mt. Olive Pickles responded to an X thread about the situation, saying it was unaware a Confederate flag would be displayed at the state’s booth when it agreed to participate in the exhibit.
Quote from this news article. Looks like NC was unofficially represented by a booth run by an unspecified private group. Mt. Olive was part of that booth, but pulled out once the confederate flag at the same booth was reported to them. I couldn't read the Xitter thread without an account so of course I didn't, but it apparently has more details.
Ah, I see why I had a hard time understanding. I assumed that Mt. Olive Pickles had its own booth, but you're saying that it was simply one of many companies represented in a single booth that represented NC, one of which decided to display the confederate flag?
If that's the case, then this article has done Mt. Olive Pickles a disservice by not making the booth situation crystal clear.
Yes, that is my understanding of the situation, based on what little I could find. Like many news articles now, it really should have been more clear.
Confusing indeed. I tried looking for another article and got basic copy/paste from a bunch saying the same things. It sounds like each state has their own booth to represent the state as a whole, and Mt. Olive was there as their own thing and decided to pull out after seeing the state's booth
But mah heritage!
Like a cocktail skewer through the heart.
They were probably too spicy for all 20 people in attendance anyways.
too spicy for all 20 people in attendance
Just like the mayonnaise.
what I read somewhere was that NC declined to participate, so NASCAR said they'd do something with the booth...haven't been over there so cannot confirm. (And have no plans to go--I'd like to go to Smithsonian Folklife in the A&I bldg, but you literally can't walk across the mall without going a half mile out of your way. And it's 100 degrees outside.)