People Are Boycotting Red Lobster Because Of Beyonce

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Beyonce is the best thing to happen to Red Lobster since all the Long John Silver’s apparently closed (hey, I haven’t seen one in years).

The fast seafood chain received an unexpectedly sexy shout-out in Bey’s “Formation” (“When he f*ck me good, I take his ass to Red Lobster”), which reportedly increased sales by 33 percent the day after the song was released.

It also prompted a widely-retweeted response from Red Lobster.

Most of the replies were positive — we love Beyonce, we love cheddar biscuits, we love slowly becoming salty corpses — but others, not so much. As SNL perfectly lampooned in “The Day Beyonce Turned Black,” some (white) people are not pleased with Red Lobster’s kinship with the former Destiny’s Child standout, because #BoycottBeyonce. In their minds, eating at Red Lobster means supporting noted cop-hater Beyonce, or something.

The restaurant’s Facebook and Twitter have become opinionated disasters.

https://twitter.com/Terrillsue/status/698581853360545793

https://twitter.com/maxcat19/status/697442528858087425

https://twitter.com/maxcat19/status/697191770766098433

https://twitter.com/jus10nhouston/status/698599910183202816

https://twitter.com/pastoredsmith/status/698727049540796416

https://twitter.com/GreedyPatriots/status/698531095533346816

Meanwhile, some people are concerned about more important issues.

The last time I went to Red Lobster I only went to see if it had improved.. I was there a month before and it was terrible! Seafood tasted like bleach.. Well this trip wasn’t much better sad to say! This used to be my favorite place to eat dinner but $89 spent each time we came and we didn’t eat 1/4 of the meal seems like a huge waste to me! Very disappointing!!! (Via Facebook)

$89! At Red Lobster! Oh well, more biscuits for the rest of us.

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