It’s not easy being a straight white couple in America these days.
When they’re not having to fend off peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors from their front lawns, they’re at war with chain restaurants over shredded cheese.
Last weekend, a husband shared a photo of his wife looking absolutely destitute inside a Tex Mex restaurant while she waited for shredded cheese to go with her fajitas that were getting colder by the minute.
“My wife, date night after 3+ months looked up on quarantine,” the man raged. “Waiting for shredded cheese as it’s the only way she can eat fajitas. We’ve asked 4 people, going on 18 minutes now. Just unreal at Allen, TX location. We gotta quit blaming #COVID19 for crappy service.”
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The tweet came from a since-deleted account called @jsv4, run by a man later identified as Jason Vicknair.
Though the account has been deactivated, the responses are still up for everyone to see.
The faces of national tragedy:
“Migrant Mother,” 1936 (by Dorothea Lange, FSA) and “But I Had To Wait For My Shredded Cheese,” 2020 pic.twitter.com/VLO0coSgMn— David Poller Photography (@PollerPhoto) June 28, 2020
I know of one woman who lost her husband and both her parents to COVID-19 during the same week but this fajitas-without-cheese situation really puts everything into perspective.
— Ben Leaf (@BenLeaf) June 28, 2020
For just 5 cents a day, you too can help a cheeseless person in need. Mi Cocina tried, now it’s your turn. #CheeseIsLife pic.twitter.com/fZxW12pM2s
— Whatever Floats Your Goat. (@_floatsurgoat_) June 28, 2020
Not having shredded cheese is a form of privilege, and it’s one we don’t talk about nearly enough.
— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) June 28, 2020
Your 1st mistake was picking Mi Cocina. Your 2nd mistake was expecting shit to be as you think it should be. Your 3rd mistake is posting a picture of the most first-world-problem expression on your wife’s face and thinking anyone gives a shit. pic.twitter.com/Om4mlgWT9I
— Living in the Twilight Zone (@allthethings13) June 28, 2020
they might as well just nail her to the cross at this point
— (@GarrettIsVibin) June 28, 2020
Guys, I have a screenplay idea, hear me out #18MinutesWithoutCheese pic.twitter.com/vwL9yJ7KjB
— T. Rev (@TrevvyTrev) June 28, 2020
“125,000 Americans are dead but that’s nothing compared to the hell that is having to eat fajitas without shredded cheese.”#ShreddedCheese pic.twitter.com/ELfWqQUsg3
— matt mynhier (@mattmynhier) June 29, 2020
she can’t eat fajitas without cheese? like… physically?
— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) June 28, 2020
Seriously this is a lesson in Be-More-Prepared-and-Less-Pathetic!
The inside of my purse…
I never go #18minuteswithoutcheese pic.twitter.com/JkSpWdCD49— A Thats All (@AThatsall) June 28, 2020
My god, I had no idea things had gotten so bad in Texas. No shredded cheese! Thoughts and prayers.
— Claire Splan (@ClaireSplan) June 28, 2020
When you don’t get shredded cheese for your fajitas after asking 4 people: pic.twitter.com/RXXDwqh8uw
— Fan of the group KPOP (@LordBusiness69) June 28, 2020
Many were quick to point out that Jason has quite a history of blasting businesses on Twitter.
Beginning to think this guy is kind of a fucking baby pic.twitter.com/rKSy8DqHEf
— Weep screed (@WeepScreed) June 28, 2020
you tagged the business in the tweet just like the dozens of other businesses you’ve tagged. You meant to hurt them just like you did before. This time the whole world noticed how petty and mean you are.
— deathandfood (@deathandfood) June 29, 2020
Dudes entire timeline is bitching at companies pic.twitter.com/ye03jUAs27
— Bottlerocket (@bottlerocket) June 28, 2020
I got a yelp review that said I ruined this guy and his gfs elegant evening by refusing to give them bread. I told them 5 times we were out. What was his elegant meal you ask? Mac n Chz and a side of Corn.
— Amber Carvaly (@AmberCarvaly) June 29, 2020
Others noted that, despite claiming to be locked down for “3+ months,” just one week earlier, Jason posted about being out on Father’s Day (and, of course, having a miserable time because of the bad service)…
First night out after 3 months in lockdown, eh?
you’re a bad liar and a complaint grifter pic.twitter.com/dLuqEoR9L8
— sarah wants #8toabolition (@sarahmozal) June 28, 2020
No way these people quarantined for 3 months. They went to the Gaylord Texan for Father’s Day and have pics of their kids meeting their favorite athletes & swimming in a public pool. Not a mask in sight anywhere on this guy’s timeline. I feel so bad for the staff at Mi Cocina.
— PollyannACAB (@Halaylah) June 28, 2020
“3+ months locked up on quarantine” ???
Looks like you were out & about last week for Father’s Day. ♀️https://t.co/7BHkvYcpbt https://t.co/wl8pIOp4wa
— Penny Madashell (@rukiddingmelolz) June 28, 2020
And then there was this little gem…
Your wife sucks
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 28, 2020
After his tweet went viral and his wife became internet famous, Jason spoke to the local blog Central Track about what happened.
“First, let’s get this out of the way,” he said. “It’s very normal to put cheese on fajitas.”
He then insisted that he and his wife are “pretty happily married” (so long as there is always shredded cheese nearby), but that she’s “pissed” her photo went viral.
“She said, ‘Why would you put this picture of me on Twitter?'”
Jason added that he appreciates everyone in the service industry, even if his past tweets don’t show it; however, the service at Mi Cocina on Saturday night was “bad.”
Asked if the shredded cheese ever arrived at the table, Jason said it did, “probably a couple minutes after” he sent his now infamous tweet.
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Cam
““Waiting for shredded cheese as it’s the only way she can eat fajitas.”
No, it’s not the only way she CAN eat it, it’s the only way she DOES eat it douche.
jayceecook
Sorry CamCam but it’s perfectly fine for him to use “can”. Can is a verb which expresses different types of modality. One of those being deontic modality. Deontic modality means according to a set of rules or desires. So when he says the only way she can… He’s saying that according to her own set of rules or desires when it comes to eating fajitas, shredded cheese is required for consumption.
winemaker
What is this utter BULLS**T story? Who really cares if this lady gets her ‘grated cheese’ as if this is a matter of life and death and why is this on a gay site? Most of us should have such trite problems as this spoiled and entitled lady.
jayceecook
@winemaker Shredded cheese. Not grated. Completely different type. It’s like calling a Sauvignon Blanc a Merlot.
succubus
jayceecook…. you new here?
Cam
@jayceecook
Can = to be able to, or to be permitted to.
She CAN eat the food without cheese, she just doesn’t want to. Doing so won’t make her sick or die.
jayceecook
@CamCam And here you are again up to your usual tricks. Deflect from the actual issue. Sorry snookums but I’m not letting you off the hook so easily.
If you’re going to try and school me on the definition of the word “can” at least provide ALL of them. Not just the ones that make you seem correct.
Can: (modal verb) 1) have the ability or means to do something 1a) to have the necessary ability, knowledge, money, or equipment to do something 2) used for saying what is possible 2a) used for saying whether the situation makes it possible for you to do something at a particular time 3)
used for saying that it is possible to do something 4) used when only one opinion, meaning, or decision is possible 5) used for saying that something sometimes happens or is sometimes possible or true 6) to be allowed to do something, or to have the right or power to do it 7)
?SPOKEN used in requests, or when offering or suggesting something 8) ?SPOKEN used for saying what someone will have to do, when you are annoyed with them or do not approve of them.
Now, there are more definitions when you take into account the negative of the modal verb “can” but that’s not what is the topic of hand right now. As I said in my previous comment, which per usual ignored, “can” is modal verb. A specific type of auxiliary. What are modal verbs you didn’t ask?
A modal verb is a type of verb that is used to indicate modality – that is: likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestions, order, obligation, or advice. Modal verbs are used when you need to add special elements of meaning to a main verb, e.g.: to express different degrees of doubt and possibility about the action of the main verb; to express degrees of future possibility, ranging from the definite future, will, to the possible future, may, and the conditional future, could; to request or give permission for an action to take place; to make a prohibition, when used with a negative; to speculate; to express obligation and duty; TO REFER TO TYPICAL BEHAVIOUR; to add politeness to a request which might otherwise sound abrupt.
In linguistics, modals (aka modal verbs, modal auxiliaries) refer to words like can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must which indicate likelihood, permission, obligation, and ability. The concept of modality includes both modal auxiliaries as well as longer constructions, like ought, have to, be obliged to, be able to, be capable of, it’s possible that, it’s necessary for __ to, it’s obligatory to, it’s permissible that, possibly, necessarily, maybe, perhaps, and so on.
So as I said, her husband was correct in using the word “can”. This is true because he’s saying that it is necessary or only possible for her to eat fajitas when she has shredded cheese with them. Why that is necessary or possible is irrelevant in terms of linguistics. For all we know it may not be physically or psychology possible for her to eat them without shredded cheese. I knew a chick who could not physically eat chicken strips without some sort of dipping sauce. The sauce acted like lube and helped the food easily pass through her esophagus. I also knew somebody who needed to take an enzyme before consuming dairy products or they would develop gastrointestinal problems. In both cases they could physically consume chicken strips and dairy products however it caused them unnecessary discomfort or pain to do so outside their TYPICAL BEHAVIOUR.
Isn’t language just fun CamCam!
jayceecook
succubus, no. Are you?
j41005
That woman does not look white; maybe Latino.
And stop referring to whining, bratty thugs as “peaceful protesters”. Their thugs who want something that they’re not entitled to have and as a result they loot, burn, steal, beat and murder to get their way.
Cam
Translation: The right wing troll account tried to post and attack Black Lives Matter, forgetting that this was an article about a guy making a stink about cheese.
Do they have ANY kind of screening process for you trolls?!
startenout
So you’re an equal opportunity racist. Nice. You can look at a picture and know their ethnicity.
Den
And another observation regarding your epic dullness;
“Latina” would indicate only cultural ties to Mexico, Central and South America. So there is no way for someone to specifically look Latina. Many Latinx folks ARE white, or black, or indigenous, or mixes thereof.
So you have no idea at all whether she is a Latina or not, and saying so simply makes your dullness more obvious to people.
wiredpup
What’s the matter sweetie, are you lost? Do you need help finding your mommy?
vancouverdoug
I think that will be Jason’s EX-wife soon. His idiocy has made her a laughingstock. I just reposted the “arms of an angel” video.
dhmonarch89
hey- We all would be pissed if we waited 18 minutes for something like this in a restaurant. Just don’t post about it.
Jack Meoff
Where exactly is the gay news angle in this story?
nm4047
was wonder what the (hypocritical) relevance of queerty’s posting was
jayceecook
Only thing I can think of is that it’s “Karen” adjacent at best. Since internet shaming is all the rage with some gays these days I’m guessing that’s why Q posted about it.
jayceecook
Texas. That’s call you need to know.
And considering the spike in COVID-19 cases there, the two might be stuck in quarantine for another 3 months if Texans don’t take this shite seriously. Hope they’re stocking up on the shredded cheese.
Dunnedin
Texas…California, Florida, Oregon…apparently you missed the article on the Karen in California who lambasted the barista for asking her to wear a mask, as well as other articles. This is a problem in the US…not just Texas.
jayceecook
@Dunnedin While I admit there are “Karens” and “Karloses” everywhere. Historically Texas and Florida now that you mention it, probably even more so, tend to be the epicenter for this kind idiotic phuckery.
Flipping out over a mask is one thing. I don’t agree with those folks and they should be quarantined for not wearing them. Still, I do kind of, maybe just a little bit, can acknowledge their POV.
However phucked up shite seems to happen a lot in these two states like the above article. Texans have their own way of thinking and doing things that is very specific to their state and way of life. Like one gentleman said, “If I had my way in my world, you’d need a passport to come to Texas, you’d have to know the difference between a bull, a steer, and a cow, and you’d have to have a valid drivers license and insurance!”
jayceecook
Taking a closer look at the picture I now see the fire alarm behind her. Surprised didn’t go full on Karne and pull it to get the authorities there because they wouldn’t bring her shredded cheese.
rocknstan
For the love of G-d, call 9-11.
Perhaps we don’t need military-clad police officers to answer EVERY type of disturbance, ‘ya think?!
clhs
If there’s any reason to rage here it’s that this man refers to grated cheese as “shredded”.
jayceecook
Of the few Tex Mex restaurants I’ve been to they served shredded cheese and not grated cheese for fajitas. Same with tacos too. Which in all honesty there’s not much of a difference.
succubus
does anyone eat out any more?… that’s so 2019
msfrost
Shredded Cheese is a WANT NOT A Need!
ThinkPlease
I dunno, I thought it was kind of amusing, personally.
My only real takeaway is that I’m starting to get the feeling that Graham likes to point out race negatively as long as that race is “white.”
Not nice, Graham. It gives the whites the permission to do the same in return since equal rights and all.
gilmartin
“Last weekend, a husband shared a photo of his wife looking absolutely destitute inside a Tex Mex restaurant “… Destitute? Really?
Yooper
I’ve been to Texas, and those heifers in Lululemons have to have a ton of cheese, sour cream, and guacamole, to digest anything.