There’s a new ice cream controversy and it doesn’t involve Schweddy Balls or breast milk or a pregnant nun.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. That saying gets attributed to Sigmund Freud frequently, but apparently he never really said it.

However when driving by at 40 mph, citizens of Ocala, Florida who notice someone wearing a pointy white hat see a KKK member instead of an ice cream cone.

The owners of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches thought putting an employee in an ice cream cone costume and sending him onto the street corner to wave at passersby would lure customers into their new restaurant. Instead it’s caused some hysteria among people who felt threatened by the perceived racist on the corner. And we thought frozen treats shaped like James Bond were a bad idea.

The owners learned of the misunderstanding through word of mouth and also Facebook messages and soon realized that the reason their new business wasn’t booming was based on mistaken identity. Store manager Liza Diaz had to do some digging to figure out what the uproar was about since, being a native of Puerto Rico, she was unfamiliar with the KKK and its white supremacist beliefs.

For now, the owners have opted to pull their beckoning cone and its colorful sprinkles off the corner in hopes that business will build.

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