{"id":1350106,"date":"2022-02-28T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1350106"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:08:04","slug":"fact-check-no-this-restaurant-sign-calling-people-who-wear-masks-sheep-is-not-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-restaurant-sign-calling-people-who-wear-masks-sheep-is-not-real\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Restaurant Sign Calling People Who Wear Masks \u2018Sheep\u2019 Is Not Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-restaurant-sign-calling-people-who-wear-masks-sheep-is-not-real%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1350106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/KElF1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 470 times purportedly shows a sign at Little Pigs BBQ restaurant telling customers to \u201ctake off the stupid mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A member of the restaurant\u2019s staff confirmed the photo is digitally edited. The photo stems from a website that allows users to customize the sign with their own message.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CornerstoneJustice\/posts\/3396565707274685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a>, which has garnered over 1,700 reactions on Facebook, appears to show a sign for the <a href=\"http:\/\/littlepigsbbq.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Pigs BBQ restaurant<\/a>, located in Asheville, North Carolina, that reads, \u201cWe serve pork we do not serve sheep, so take off the stupid mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sign\u2019s message is digitally fabricated. A reverse image search revealed a version of the image can be found on a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/bar-b-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atom.smasher.org<\/a>. The website allows users to customize an image of the sign, along with other displays and billboards, with their own message. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051102020956\/http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/bar-b-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web archives<\/a> of the site show the image of the sign, along with the function to alter it, has existed since at least 2005.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThe images have been fake going on 15 years now,\u201d Bruce Gordon, assistant manager of Little Pigs BBQ, told Check Your Fact. \u201cOur sign is very much associated with not being offensive to different people, and just providing our menu,\u201d he continued, explaining that people from various countries had been photoshopping their own message onto the restaurant\u2019s sign for over a decade. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/02\/fact-check-in-n-out-burger-cup-say-f-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This In-N-Out Burger Cup Say, \u2018F*** Joe Biden\u2019?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/asheville-restaurant-says-trump-special-photo-is-a-fake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC 13 News<\/a> published an article regarding the sign after an altered version of it appeared that claimed the restaurant was selling a \u201cTrump special\u201d of \u201clying fat pig\u201d BBQ ribs. Little Pigs co-owner Carr Swicegood told the outlet the sign had been photoshopped and \u201cThere\u2019s nothing we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 470 times purportedly shows a sign at Little Pigs BBQ restaurant telling customers to \u201ctake off the stupid mask.\u201dVerdict: False A member of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}