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A Texas bakery is “overwhelmed” with the support they have received from their community following backlash over theirrainbow Pridecookies.
It all began when Confections, a bakery in Lufkin, Texas, shared aphoto on Facebookdisplaying six heart-shaped sugar cookies with rainbow frosting. The caption read “More LOVE. Less hate. Happy Pride to all ourLGBTQ friends! All lovers of cookies and happiness are welcome here.”
However, the next day, Confections shared an update to their Facebook followers claiming that a customer cancelled an order of 5 dozen cookies due to the store’s post.
“Today has been hard. Really hard,” the post read. “We lost a significant amount of followers because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted. We received a very hateful message on our business page canceling a large order (5dz) of summer themed cookies for tomorrow morning (that we just finished decorating) because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted. My heart is heavy.”
The post continued: “Honestly I never thought a post that literally said more love less hate would result in this kind of backlash to a very small business that is struggling to stay afloat and spread a little cheer through baked goods. So. If you love our cookies we will have an over abundance of them tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.”
And better it was. Confections shared on Facebook that they would be selling all of the cookies from the canceled order individually for $3 a piece. That day, the line wrapped around the building. The bakery sold out of all of their products and had to close an hour early. When all of the baked goods were gone, customers reportedly began offering to donate money.
However, Confections claimed on Facebook they would not be accepting donations and instead would rather the money go toward one of three local animal rescues in their communities.
Then on Saturday, Confections reopened and sold out again.
source: people.com
