A Mississippi restaurant once praised by Guy Fieri is facing backlash after offering a promotion only available to straight couples.
The owners of Darwell’s Happiness Cafe, Darwell Yeager III and Nettie Mechelle Yeager, in Long Beach, Mississippi, came under fire this week after sharing a shocking video to their Facebook page.
The couple were seen filming from the kitchen of their restaurant celebrating “couple’s day at Darwell’s,” offering freebies to any ‘real couples’ that come in.
“No matter how long you been together, dating, married, so long as you’re a couple,” Darwell said. “Husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, guy and girl couple…. the real kind of couple.”
Nettie, wearing a comically large pair of sunglasses, added: “Yeah, cos we don’t do the trans or the lesbians or gays. I’m sorry that’s down the street.”
Darwell said any couples “that can produce a child” would be given “something for free” if they arrived within the next few hours of them releasing the promotion.
The couple deleted the clip after it sparked backlash online, and Nettie went on to apologize on social media, admitting: “I’m not perfect.”
“I say things people don’t understand, misread, misunderstood, jokes maybe I shouldn’t say,” she wrote. “But I’m human too, I’m truly sorry if you got offended or misunderstood something not meant to hurt anyone.”