American political polarization is playing out in grocery stores and restaurants - here's what brands are getting burned in Trump's America
Hollis Johnson
- American political polarization is playing out on the dinner table with a recent round of brand boycotts.
- While the left is ditching Papa John's, the right is cutting out Starbucks and tossing Keurigs out the window.
- The foods we eat eat are a shorthand for certain beliefs - and that can be dangerous for different brands.
The past two years have seen an unending series of politically sparked boycotts and counter-boycotts.
Now, as Thanksgiving nears, the boycotts seem to be playing out on dinner plates across America.
"We've never seen something like this - a consumer awakening, if you will," Chris Allieri, the founder of the communications and marketing firm Mulberry & Astor, told Business Insider on the rise of consumer boycotts in recent years.
In an effort to see how political divisions are dividing the American diet, we rounded up foods that have been politicized by the left and right over the last few years. Here are all the brands that have been sucked into politics and hit with boycotts, through everything from alt-right-led Twitter campaigns to anti-Trump spreadsheets.
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