RuPaul’s Drag Race seasons 10 and 11 contestant Vanessa Vanjie Mateo recorded a video for Chips Ahoy! cookies and conservatives got mad.
Miss Vanjie recorded a Mother’s Day message for Chips Ahoy! because she’s the perfect person to do it: “Get those cookies” is one of her catchphrases, her voice has been compared to Cookie Monster’s, and her drag mother, Alexis Mateo, is pretty well-known herself.
She urged viewers to buy cookies for “your real mama, your drag mama, whichever mama, somebody, whoever taking care of you, whoever you feel or consider your mama.”
“Chewy, the original, everything under the sun,” Vanjie says the clip. “So get those cookies.”
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#HappyMothersDay to your moms, your drag moms and everyone who celebrates you being YOU. #GetTheseCookies @VanessaVanjie ❤️ pic.twitter.com/LkwRGp6ayF
— Chips Ahoy! (@ChipsAhoy) May 12, 2019
It seems pretty innocuous, right?
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Well, not to people who are just hateful.
Now I know which cookies brand to not buy.
— HJBCosta (@UselessBunny) May 13, 2019
I just tossed my cookies!
— Jon (@IndieDashboard) May 13, 2019
Was hooked on chips ahoy lately this really helped me get rid of it.
— American demo🇺🇸 (@not_jolly_john) May 13, 2019
I know what's hitting the trash can when I get home.
— The Grumpy White Guy (@ProudSETexan) May 12, 2019
Most didn’t explicitly state why they were going to stop buying cookies after a drag queen advertised them, but others were clear.
Chips Ahoy no more for this family. Every time I see a package of these cookies I'll think of this gender confused freak! Everyone that goes to the grocery store, push all the Chops Ahoys to the back and put another brand in front of it. Go viral. #BoycottChipsAhoy
— WhatEverItTakes (@LeoAnders2) May 13, 2019
I’m suddenly in the mood for Chick-fil-A.
— AJ Pistone (@realAJ_Macaroni) May 13, 2019
Fun fact, biological males with make up on doesn’t give them the ability to give birth.
— Mark (@_bodach) May 13, 2019
— bella 🌈 (@queenvanjie) May 13, 2019
@CyClotz29 @Budro76 looks like it will be @mrsfields cookies for me…but don’t worry, @ChipsAhoy is woke AF!!!
— #MAGAzoni (@aaardizzoni) May 13, 2019
Classy spokesperson @ChipsAhoy pic.twitter.com/GUQTKK4jvM
— Jim Wadkins Jr. (@JimWadkinsJr) May 12, 2019
Chips Ahoy!, though, seemed to take the negativity well.
convinced they didn’t even watch the video lol
— Chips Ahoy! (@ChipsAhoy) May 12, 2019