Bakery selling ‘Build the Wall’ cookies gets national attention
EDMONDS, WA (KCPQ) — A bakery in Washington has grabbed national attention after making a cookie that shows support for the border wall.
One woman found the slogan on the cookie offensive and posted about it on social media. Since then, the post has gone viral.
Build the wall. Those are the three words Edmonds Bakery owner Kenneth Bellingham wrote on a cookie. He says it was a treat for his daughter-in-law and he initially had no plans to sell the cookie.
“I wasn’t going to sell those cookies. That wasn’t my plan. The cookie just got put out there and somebody thought that I was selling them. It was part of my collection,” Bellingham said.
He says when the cookies were put in the display case, a customer snapped a photo of the cookie and abruptly left. That customer was Ana Carrera, who says she was offended by the cookie’s slogan and posted about it in a Facebook group.
“I instantly figured this is part of the rhetoric that he believes in that comes out of this bakery. I just took it upon myself to post it on Facebook to see what others thought of it and it just took off from there. But it’s definitely something I do not like,” Carrera said.
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