"Business is booming like never before at a Western Massachusetts bakery thanks to some politically charged confections. The Sweet Boutique, a bakery and coffee shop in East Longmeadow, has attracted attention for its expletive-laden cookies protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Frosted on the cookies and adorned with pink hearts and ribbons is a clear message: "F- ICE." The bakery first shared the cookies on Facebook earlier this month, prompting a slew of both positive and negative responses."
"Though she has continued to use her business as a political platform, she said that the intensity of the backlash rattled her. "People have wished illness and death on my family and my children," Moran said. "We've gotten a lot of death threats, hoping me and all my female employees get raped and my male employees get robbed, that they're going to lock me in the building and burn the place down with me inside.""
The Sweet Boutique in East Longmeadow produced expletive-laden cookies protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, decorated with pink hearts and ribbons reading "F- ICE." The bakery posted the cookies on Facebook and received both praise and severe backlash. Strangers posted the owner's home address online, issued violent threats against employees and family, and threatened arson. Police involvement and new safety protocols followed. Despite intimidation, sales surged: the shop sold out of cookies, cupcakes, and pies within hours, closed early, temporarily suspended DoorDash, and experienced a line and sellout the following day as the politically themed confections flew off shelves.
Read at Boston.com
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