Dallas baker Haley Popp of Hive Bakery, receives dying threats after promoting Tim Walz model cookies
A “progressive” Texas baker and “Meals Community” star has obtained harsh backlash, hateful feedback and dying threats over cookies she was promoting bearing the face of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Haley Popp launched the blue-frosted sugar cookies which featured the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate’s likeness at her Hive Bakery forward of Tuesday’s Vice Presidential Debate between Walz and Sen. JD Vance.
“We solely have a couple of dozen! Order on-line or come see us!! Who’s prepared for the VP beats tonight?!,” the bakery wrote on Fb alongside the cookie with a smiling Walz.
Eight hours after sharing the submit, Popp revealed that the bakery had obtained hateful messages and telephone calls due to her “liberal cookies.”
“Right here’s the factor. I don’t give a f–ok should you don’t wish to purchase a cake from me as a result of I put out Tim Walz cookies,” Popp wrote. “I couldn’t care much less what your opinion of me is, nor do I believe twice about your unsolicited recommendation on how I ought to run my enterprise. You don’t like me? Don’t come right here. You don’t like that I submit political shit? Unfollow. You’re irrelevant.”
“We’ve constructed a enterprise with grit, tenacity, authenticity and one which has an actual voice. We stand for one thing. Nobody will ever take that from us,” she added. “Save your harassment for another person. With such hateful rhetoric, we by no means needed you in our store to start with.
The bakery shared screenshots of the feedback it had obtained, which ranged from calling Popp “disgusting” to threatening her life.
Popp, who describes herself as a “progressive, feminine enterprise proprietor,” says she has reported the harassment to the Flower Mound Police Division prior to now, but it surely “persists.”
Popp claimed that she additionally got here beneath fireplace when she made baked items to have a good time Delight week in June.
“The worst factor that’s been written was throughout Delight week once we defended the LGBTQ+ group and ran Delight cookies all June lengthy,” she stated on Instagram. “A person instructed me he hopes the bakery burns down with all of us queers inside.”
“I’m by no means posting something fueled by hatred. I actually simply submit images of cookies, and that can get me a dying risk,” Popp instructed the Dallas Morning Information.
A majority of the hateful feedback got here from members of the Fb group “Flower Mound Cares,” in line with the outlet.
The self-taught baker, who created her enterprise in 2018, appeared on the Meals Community’s “Halloween Wars” in 2019.”
She additionally gained the community’s “Cakealikes: Taste Flav” and “Meals Community Canada: The Large Bake” competitions.
After the Walz cookies offered out, Hive Bakery created “Harris/Walz” cookies which showcased the working mates aspect by aspect in entrance of an American flag backdrop surrounded by blue frosting.
Popp initially created 6 dozen however then had hassle maintaining with the orders, she says.
A number of iterations of Kamala Harris cookies have been made this 12 months, that includes the 59-year-old vp in numerous poses.
Different cookies have featured the likes of feminine singers together with Taylor Swift posing together with her cat, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.
Whereas Popp creates the polarizing baked items to point out her help for the Democratic ticket, different bakeries across the nation have used political cookies for a mock election.
Cincinnati-based Busken Bakery offered cookies that includes caricatures of Harris, former President Donald Trump and a generic yellow Smiley face and tallied up the votes based mostly on what number of of every candy deal with was offered.
Trump leads the “crumby” polling with over 15,000 votes adopted by Harris with practically 5,000 and the yellow smiley face trailing behind with 826, as of Oct. 1.
The “cookie ballot” has precisely predicted each election end result however one since 1984.
In swing state Pennsylvania, Trump leads Harris in a separate “dough-macracy” election at Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro.
The small-town bakery has offered 17,860 “Trump 2024” cookies that includes crimson and white sprinkles, whereas the blue “Harris 2024” cookie has been offered solely 1222 occasions as of the October first.
