Bad Bread: Left Tries to Boycott Martin’s Famous Over CEO’s Politics

Are there circuses that aren’t bread-based? This is what a group of lefties determined to discover.  James Martin, CEO of Martin’s, whose potato rolls are very popular in both supermarkets and restaurants, supports a conservative candidate for Pennsylvania governor. So, according to The Washington Post on June 12, Martin’s must be destroyed. 

Martin and his wife, as well his daughter, donated money to Doug Mastriano for his GOP Gubernatorial nomination. Mastriano, who is also a Pennsylvania senator and retired colonel in the army, supports Trump. 

The most notable person to boycott was author and chef J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, known for not only having a large YouTube following and public presence but for banning MAGA hat-wearing customers from his restaurant, San Mateo Eatery, in 2019, saying the MAGA hat was “Same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate.” How does he feel regarding Che Guevara T-shirts? He’s definitely the type of person who would rather have his panties in bulk than traditional bread rolls. 

Lopez-Alt said on his Instagram, “I will not be buying any more Martin’s products, nor will I support any establishment that uses their buns until they change suppliers, and I’d urge you to do the same if you don’t want your dollars supporting this stuff.” 

Martin’s clarified that it does not make political contributions as a company, but “we encourage and celebrate the opportunity we all have to vote and share in the election process.” It’s a reasonable position to let people make their own decisions on politics and not endorse anyone as a company. As evidenced by their insatiable obsession with groups like race or sex, the left is unable to understand this distinction between individual/group. 

WoPo reached out to many chefs and notable people that are supplied by Martin’s. Most did not reply. At the end of the article is a discussion about why boycotts rarely work. One anonymous chef who commented simply said, “I don’t know how to make a good potato bun like that.” 

It doesn’t matter if a Trump-supporting executive is in charge of a company. Liberals can get knee-jerk when they are in their faux-moral anger. Let liberals just shrug off their pride and stop worrying about what political affiliation everyone else has. It’s not the end of the world if your burger has a bun tangentially “from a conservative.” Just wait till they find out where they get their energy from and who they lobby. Lopez-alt might be better served by being primitive.