Popular Food Truck Accused of Luring Women Into a 'Cult'

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The owner of Bad Rooster food truck, who in the ’90s began to “serve” a mystical spirit, is fighting off accusations that she’s lured women away from their families to join her.

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Popular Food Truck Accused of Luring Women Into a ‘Cult’
The owner of Bad Rooster food truck, who in the ’90s began to “serve” a mystical spirit, is fighting off accusations that she’s lured women away from their families to join her.
7:36 AM · Sep 5, 2022

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In July, the owners of Bad Rooster—a wildly popular Minnesota food truck known for its decadent sandwiches and tattoo-style logo of a surly bird—solemnly stood before their vehicle and recorded a Facebook video defending themselves. “This food truck has been nothing but an award-winning food truck,” fumed Soulaire Allerai.

“We serve the best chicken in, I guess I feel, in the state,” added the 65-year-old proprietress known as the kitchen’s “chief mother clucker” and who is also a “life strategist,” podcaster, and lead minister of Living Faith Spiritual Community in Minnetonka. “I’m tired of people being attacked because you think you have some purpose in life, or not, I don’t know.”

The poultry-slingers told viewers they’d lost revenue due to “malicious and personal” rebukes on social media, accusations they said were unrelated to the chicken joint but which they didn’t detail in the video. “We are asking for support, because we cannot survive this defamation without your support,” the truck’s head chef, Soulmar Allerai, chimed in.

But, according to critics who’ve recently come forward, Bad Rooster is more than a friendly purveyor of wing baskets and waffle fries; they say it’s a financing arm for a New Age “cult.”

Sisters Kelly Abedi and Angela Hummelgard took to Facebook this summer to warn customers that Soulaire, the public face of the company, runs a spiritual group called Soulful Journey that they claim rips members from their families, inspires them to legally change their names, and convinces them that Soulaire can channel God and beings from other dimensions.

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[miyazaki]

1. Sounds like a bad Hulu series. nt

[Nevilledog]

2. Right?

[Kittycatkat]

3. If they can "channel God and beings from other dimensions", why are they asking for handouts?

They can "channel god" but can't stand up to internet scrutiny? Something smells very fishy (chickeny?) here!

[FalloutShelter]

4. The logic is not strong in the coop.

*flaps wings* bragack!!!

[miyazaki]

5. Definitely something fowl going on.

[FalloutShelter]

6. Well played.