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A Texas bakery lost orders after posting their Pride Month cookies. Then customers lined up around the block to support them.
CBS NEWS ^ | JUNE 8, 2021 | APRIL SIESE

Posted on 06/08/2021 8:09:06 AM PDT by deport

Confections in Lufkin, Texas announced on Thursday that it would be selling rainbow cookies for Pride Month. The bakery, located in East Texas, soon faced backlash for its decision.

"Today has been hard. Really hard," a Facebook post from June 3 read. "We lost a significant amount of followers because of a rainbow heart cookie we posted."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: bakery; cookies; gaynewsrooms; getwokegobroke; pinkjournalism; pride
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To: deport

They’re too far from Austin for that type of thing to work.


21 posted on 06/08/2021 8:20:18 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: blam

You don’t have to go to school to learn that.

Common sense still works.


True. But they drove the point home with its ramifications.

And sometimes you have to tell young people what is right there in front of their face. :D

I wish schools would teach kids more common sense about compound interest and the rule of 72.


22 posted on 06/08/2021 8:22:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: deport

They can support anything they want but I would never buy ANYTHING from this bakery. I make my own or go without.


23 posted on 06/08/2021 8:25:14 AM PDT by Pilated
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To: FatherofFive

It appears they lost regular customers. Lets see if the new customers return. I know that when I stop going somewhere, for whatever reason, I don’t return.


When I moved into the small town where I now live 38 years ago I went to the local barbershop for a haircut. I was ignored. Not sure why, perhaps the day I picked was for regulars only, but for what ever reason the barber was taking customer all around me but not me. Eventually I got up and left. Never to return. I had to drive five miles to the next town for my haircuts.

Once a customer has a bad experience with a business that customer will find someone else to do business with even if it may cost more in time or money.


24 posted on 06/08/2021 8:25:24 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: deport

So if you rub on the cookie, it turns into a cake?


25 posted on 06/08/2021 8:27:14 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: JonPreston
Please, continue with the boycott. This current support is transitory.

we can't control what others do, only what we do. Besides, the typical leftist responds to emotion and hype of headlines. As you say, they will not be there for this bakery tomorrow.

26 posted on 06/08/2021 8:29:14 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Please don’t burn my business to the ground, is the message sent by this “woke” bakery.


27 posted on 06/08/2021 8:32:56 AM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: cuban leaf

Didn’t they teach you the difference between product and manufacturer?


28 posted on 06/08/2021 8:34:05 AM PDT by lewislynn ( How long before they replace Martin Luther King Blvd with George Floyd Blvd?)
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To: deport

Lufkin is not far from Nacogdoches home to SFA State University, and along with Palestine, make up the iron triangle of Liberal East Texas. This is all a very small area of Texas and out of line with Texas social values.


29 posted on 06/08/2021 8:34:18 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: deport
Well there ya go. People should be free to decide where they want to spend their money for whatever reason.

Ain't freedom grand? Let it ring!

30 posted on 06/08/2021 8:52:31 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Yep. That won’t fly well in Lufkin.


31 posted on 06/08/2021 8:58:20 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Michael.SF.
The current influx of support will fade away after it has run it's course. But those opposed will be around for the long haul.

Bingo! You sold out this week, you will have stale cookies next week, because the one thing you can bank on with libs like the Cubans, once the headlines disappear, so does their money!

32 posted on 06/08/2021 8:58:30 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: deport

do they taste like sh1t?


33 posted on 06/08/2021 9:00:36 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: deport

The free market at work. We will see if any of those leftists keep coming back or if they only bought to virtue signal how special they are. Time will tell.


34 posted on 06/08/2021 9:00:56 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: lewislynn

They taught me all sorts of stuff. I’m talking about one overarching concept.


35 posted on 06/08/2021 9:13:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Michael.SF.

“If a customer likes your product/service, she/he will tell a friend. If he doesn’t like it, he will tell them.”

In our medium size city, good stores and people, who keep our homes and businesses in good working condition seldom have to advertise.

My wife is a group leader of a women’prayer group at our church. Each week, they have a meeting, and the first few minutes are often spent on identifying good merchants and those who keep their homes in good shape.

Last week, they removed a restaurant as a luncheon place due to miserable service and so so food at their last lunch.

Each woman in that group has other groups and friends where good and bad merchants/providers are discussed.

Being WOKE and pro BLM is not a positive factor with these women and their peers.


36 posted on 06/08/2021 9:16:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: deport

the more you show your politics, the easier for me to either avoid or support you. There are restaurants close by that lost my business because of their idiotic BLM signs..


37 posted on 06/08/2021 9:18:41 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: deport
it would be selling rainbow cookies

It's not a rainbow if it doesn't have indigo. (7 colors).

38 posted on 06/08/2021 9:19:23 AM PDT by MulberryDraw
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To: Meatspace

thanks for the geographic lesson.


39 posted on 06/08/2021 9:19:41 AM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Sounds like a good group of women, who have the potential to possibly put someone out of business.

I learned a long time ago, as pertains to restaurants, that the owners always appreciate when a legitimate complaint or issue is brought to their attention. I try to do that rather that taking my business elsewhere.

40 posted on 06/08/2021 9:31:17 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
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