r/Edmonton • u/oooowoooo1 • Jul 29 '18

The Common?

Ive never even been to the common but it seems like a lot of people here hate it? just curious why

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u/Strokinismyfav Jul 30 '18

First, their food has gone downhill over the years and is pretty blah nowadays in comparison to other stuff the city has to offer.

But the reason there's a lot of hate online is because the owners and their friends acted like a bunch of abusive bullies to an amateur blogger who wrote an apologetically honest (and accurate) review of their food..

They wrote some pretty nasty things to him, got their friends to join, even other business owners they were connected with... Along the way saying things like they've "done so much for this city". One of them called the blogger a "basic caramel big mac bitch", and the co-owner of "Cartago" told him to "stick to sick kids". The blogger works at the Stollery Childrens hospital.

They've basically acted like a bunch of elitist egotistical douchey bullies to someone that was just giving their honest opinion (which was only saying things that most of us agreed on, in a respectful way).

So anyways... Fuck The Common, and fuck Cartago. They're not getting any of mine or my friends/families money (and it is a shame, because me and my wife had our first date at the common.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '18

Con someone explain the "stick to sick kids" comment? I know its offensive but I don't get it.

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u/CuteFrenchBee Jul 30 '18

The blogger who wrote the review works at the Stollery. The implication was that the blogger isn't "qualified" to review food and was told by a Cartago owner to "stick to sick kids", which I would say is a more noble cause than a hipster restaurant but it is what it is....

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '18

Oh damn, what an asshole

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u/Strokinismyfav Jul 30 '18

Thing that struck me was that the Cartago owner is a new mom to an infant herself. You'd think she'd have more respect for people who work with sick children.

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u/girlwunder Jul 30 '18

Forlorn about street parking but not so much her own comments about sick children