Ohhh boy. Yesterday, when Crystal O’Connor said that her family’s restaurant, Memories Pizza, in Walkerton, Indiana, would be obliged to deny a request to cater a mozzarella-themed wedding reception for a gay couple due to their religious “beliefs,” she surely didn’t anticipate the wrathful response on social media by homosexuals and/or fans of civil rights and “the American way.” Given that Memories is a local restaurant that serves pizza, the natural social media venue for a vigorous response was Yelp, the website that publishes crowd-sourced reviews of local businesses.

That response has been intense indeed—and hilarious:
 

 
The overall rating for Memories, at this writing based on 1,127 reviews, is hovering at about 1.5. Of course, not all of the people glomming onto the site are out to attack Memories; like Chick-fil-A, it has plenty of defenders too.

And lest we forget, Yelp allows reviewers to upload pics as well. Interestingly, there are currently fewer pictures than just a couple of hours ago, so Yelp or someone is seeking to remove the obvious trolls. Here, check some out:
 

 

 

 

 
via Salon
 

 
Yelp has put together a “hipster heat map” for New York City. The really hot spots are. of course. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you want to hang out with bearded trustafarians and the melancholic members of Grizzly Bear as they guzzle their over-priced micro-brews and chow down on locavore duck lips while pondering the long slow demise of The Strokes, here’s your guide. Others, might see this as the cultural equivalent of radioactive dead zones - a cultural Chernobyl.

The map depicts areas where there is a preponderance of the word “hipster” in Yelp reviews.

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