On Wednesday, Marisa came up with a list of "10 Bars We're Scared To Enter." The key phrase there is "Scared To Enter." It doesn't mean the places we selected are necessarily shady (I have been to seven places on the list) or bad (The Pump is one of best new bars in the city). It simply means that for some absurd reason or another we were "scared" to go inside them. Basically, it was your typical slightly satirical, tongue-in-cheek, TLO-style post... which means a bunch of uninformed readers who stumbled across the post on Facebook took it way too seriously.
I'm pretty sure most of those people live in and around the Midwest City area. We received the following email from the owner of Jamaica Joe's:
Marisa posted about bars she was scared to enter....I am the owner of Jamaica Joes and would like her to come by and check it out..I bet I change her mind...it offends me highly..the pics posted are from years ago also..I am one of the nicest places in the metro area for pool and drinks and food
Yep, you heard it here first... Jamaica's Joes.... is one of the nicest places.... in the Metro... for drinks and food. I think we know... the next place to send Louis... for a food review.
We also got a lot of hateful and mean comments from fans and regulars of the Midwest City dive, Booger Red's. This kind of touched of nerve, because I actually have a bunch of fond memories of that place. In my early 20s, I lived in the working class neighborhood right behind Boogers and it became a regular stopping point for me, my best friend, Josh, and my roommate, Andy.