A Texas bakery is seeing major backlash after posting pictures of its politically themed sugar cookies. According to the Dallas Morning News , Hive Bakery owner Haley Popp has even received death threats online.
Before it was targeted this week, Hive Bakery was an award-winning pastry shop and two-time Food Network champion in Flower Mound. Before Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, Popp took to Instagram to show off her latest creation: sugar cookies decorated with the likeness of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Popp told the Dallas Morning News her Walz cookies sold out. That’s also when the unkind comments rolled in. Most notably, Popp saw members of Flower Mound Cares, a private neighborhood Facebook group, targeting her and the business. Users called for the business and “all the gay people in it” to burn, prompting Popp to contact the authorities.
“Whenever we run liberal cookies, we get tons of hateful messages and phone calls,” Popp wrote on Instagram Wednesday. Prior to the Walz cookies, Hive Bakery also made a batch of cookies depicting Vice President Kamala Harris. Those also sparked backlash.
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Friday morning, Popp shared screenshots of the negative comments and her experience. “This is a typical day for me as a progressive, female business owner in Flower Mound. On occasion it’s worse,” she wrote. She also said she reported the harassment to the Flower Mound Police Department; however, the criticism continued…