This Bakery Created Special Rainbow Cookies For Pride Month And Lost A Huge Customer Over It But The Internet Came Together To Support Them Like Crazy
Lufkin, Texas. In honor of Pride Month, a bakery named Confections made specially created rainbow cookies.
Dawn and Miranda are the two sisters and co-owners behind the Confections bakery.
They proudly shared the photos of their beautiful heart-shaped cookies on their social media accounts, never expecting that an act of inclusion would end up hurting their business big time.
Instagram; pictured above are some of Dawn and Miranda’s heart-shaped cookies made in honor of Pride Month
On June 3rd, Dawn and Miranda took to Facebook to share some heartbreaking news. They ended up losing a ton of followers on social media because of their Pride Month treats.
Not only that, their business took a hit when a customer canceled a huge order that they had made for 5 dozen cookies.
Instagram; pictured above is another one of the cookie designs the sisters came up with for Pride Month
“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,” the Facebook post explained.
Instagram; pictured above Dawn and Miranda shared the news that they lost a major customer over their Pride Month cookies
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Their post ended up going viral. It got more than 15,00 reactions, 2,200 comments, and 2,400 shares.
The internet was not about to let hate win out over love, and people came together in an incredible way to come out and support Confections.
People not only tried to donate money to the sisters and their bakery business (which they refused and instead asked that the money be donated to local animal rescues), but they also sent kind messages.
Their phone ended up ringing off the hook with orders, and then people came out to purchase cookies and lunch items from them.
The line to get into the bakery ended up around the block!
Confections was forced to close an hour early after they ran out of absolutely everything they had in the store.
Facebook; pictured above is an empty shelf in Confections after everything sold out
“We (my sister and co-owner Miranda and our fabulous baker Felicia) are just so humbled and grateful and moved by this outpouring of love,” Dawn wrote in a follow-up post.
“The last several people in our shop put Money on their credit card for us to donate because there was nothing left to purchase.”
Facebook; pictured above is another update from Confections after people showed up to support them
You can follow Confections on Facebook here!
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