{"id":1015,"date":"2025-03-18T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:11:32","slug":"cafe-with-35-breakfast-bap-sparks-outrage-for-calling-obese-people-fatties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/cafe-with-35-breakfast-bap-sparks-outrage-for-calling-obese-people-fatties\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe with \u00a335 breakfast bap sparks outrage for calling obese people \u2018fatties\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Young runs Belfast Breakfast Baps and has been dishing up fried breakfasts and more from 5.30am seven days a week (Picture: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The owner of a greasy spoon has raised some eyebrows after very publicly attacking obese people.<\/p>\n

Mark Young runs Belfast Breakfast Baps and has been dishing up fried breakfasts and more from 5.30am seven days a week.<\/p>\n

But his cafe is facing backlash after he shared a post on social media<\/a> criticising obese people who use mobility scooters.<\/p>\n

Sharing a picture of a scooter, he said: \u2018If you\u2019re in one of these because you\u2019re morbidly obese please know you are not disabled<\/a> you\u2019re fat and probably not very useful. <\/p>\n

\u2018IT MOST DEFINITELY IS YOUR FAULT. Thyroid issues are workable and you are taking away resources from those who actually deserve.<\/p>\n

\u2018How about park the mobility scooter and walk fatty and maybe even eventually run?\u2019<\/p>\n

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The cafe is facing backlash after he shared a post on social media<\/a> criticising obese people who use mobility scooters (Picture: Belfast Breakfast Baps\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The post has attracted criticism, with one even suggesting he is \u2018part of the problem, not the solution\u2019 due to his cafe\u2019s menu.<\/p>\n

Meals available to order at Belfast Breakfast Baps include bacon, sausage, egg and black pudding baps served in either rolls, soda bread or potato bread \u2013 all apparently fried if clips of the kitchen shared online are any indication.<\/p>\n

The cafe also offers the Titanic Breakfast Bap challenge for a whopping \u00a335.<\/p>\n

Customers who want to brave the bap must finish eight eggs, eight pieces of bacon, eight sausages, eight black puddings, beans, and mushrooms, in just 45 minutes \u2013 but those who succeed get their mega meal for free.<\/p>\n

None of which, commenters suggest, are conducive to a healthy diet.<\/p>\n

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BBC Northern Ireland broadcaster Stephen Nolan visited the establishment on Tuesday morning to ask Young about the controversy but was reportedly thrown out by Young (Picture: Belfast Breakfast Baps\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kerry Noble pointed out: \u2018Says the business who\u2019s cooking high fat food to contribute to people being overweight. You\u2019re part of the problem, not the solution.\u2019<\/p>\n

Crystal Brook Costa asked: \u2018Is your food so terrible that you need rage bait for engagement?\u2019<\/p>\n

And Danielle Burns commented: \u2018Says the business who serves the fattiest, highest cholesterol, heart attack inducing foods.\u2019<\/p>\n

Others have hit back at the business\u2019s claims about thyroid issues.<\/p>\n

Stephen Montgomery pointed out: \u2018When people have mobility issues they tend to put weight on as they can no longer exercise properly. Surely doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to figure that out? <\/p>\n

\u2018How about you mind your own business when it comes to others\u2019 health and keep your opinions to yourself if you\u2019re gonna tear someone down. <\/p>\n

\u2018Absolutely disgusting at your big age. So uneducated.\u2019<\/p>\n

Professor Paul Gately, CEO of Obesity UK, said he was \u2018gobsmacked\u2019 by the post, adding: \u2018Fundamentally it\u2019s incredibly discriminatory and it really feels it\u2019s attention grabbing at the expense of people suffering from a disease.<\/p>\n

\u2018People living with obesity face discrimination every single day. This demonstrates the way in which some people judge people living with obesity, when for many countries across the planet obesity is identified as a disease.<\/p>\n

\u2018I just don\u2019t see that as an appropriate form of business at all.\u2019<\/p>\n

The owner of Belfast Breakfast Baps, 39-year-old Mark Young, is sticking by his comments despite the backlash and insists he was not targeting people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

He said: \u2018It\u2019s a free world, and critics are welcome to abuse away, it\u2019s not doing me any harm really.\u2019<\/p>\n

He\u2019s since shared multiple positive reviews from customers on the business Facebook page, and has alluded to the post in more recent updates, saying \u2018see you all tomorrow from 5.30am with pitchforks or for breakfasts, either welcome\u2019.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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