Overview
- Jimmy’s Famous Seafood replied “Go f**k yourself” to a HuffPost post about discomfort with flag-waving and USA chants during the Winter Olympics.
- The reply drew well over 13 million views and more than 200,000 likes, and the restaurant’s X following climbed into the hundreds of thousands.
- Co-owner and CEO John Minadakis said he personally sent the post, describing firing it off during the men’s hockey gold-medal game overtime.
- Riding the attention, Jimmy’s offered free crab cakes for life to all members of the 2026 U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams.
- The restaurant reported a surge in support and mail-order business, while HuffPost’s post drew a heavy backlash with a lopsided comment-to-like ratio.