On Friday, we wrote about how “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg used her television platform to accuse an at-the-time unnamed bakery of political discrimination after she attempted to order 48 desserts ahead of her birthday celebration, only to be told that they couldn’t commit to making them due to equipment issues.
“Now, I should tell you,” she claimed during last Wednesday’s episode, “Charlotte Russe [the dessert] has no political leanings, and the place that made these refused to make them for me.”
“They said that their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff, but folks went and got them anyway, which is why I’m not telling you who made them,” Goldberg also alleged without evidence, suggesting “perhaps they did not like [my] politics.”
Goldberg’s claim so outraged one of her co-hosts, Sara Haines, that Haines actually spit out the bite she had taken of the confection.
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As we reported, the bakery – which media sleuths figured out was Staten Island-based Holtermann’s Bakery – did not take the insult lying down.
Members of the community including local elected officials rushed to the defense of New York state’s oldest (145 years and counting) bakery, holding a press conference in which an apology was demanded of Goldberg after third-generation co-owner Jill Holtermann, through tears, reiterated that some of her decades-old machinery was down at the time Goldberg made the request.
In an awesome update to this story, it appears that Holtermann’s Bakery is getting the last laugh in this back and forth, with loyal customers and probably many new ones lining up around the building and in the parking lot to get some sweet treats and show their support after Goldberg put the beloved business on blast:
Staten Island residents continue to flock to a local bakery that “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg criticized last week, alleging that the business may have denied her sweets due to her political beliefs.
Thousands of sweet-toothed customers flocked to Holtermann’s Bakery — one of the oldest bakeries in NYC — to show support for the beloved Staten Island establishment after Goldberg told a national audience that the business denied her order “perhaps” because of her politics.
Watch:
People rally around Holtermann’s Bakery after Whoopi Goldberg’s defamation campaign. pic.twitter.com/UEspXNlvZ9
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 18, 2024
Meanwhile, Goldberg is doubling down, posting a video clip to Instagram over the weekend where she maintained it was “a little odd” to her that they filled the order when someone else called it in:
“It does seem a little odd that when we called a few weeks before my birthday and we were told they couldn’t process the order because of an equipment failure,” she said, apparently still doubting the 145-year-old bakery’s explanation.
“But somehow they were able to accept an order of a different 48 of the same dessert when somebody else called without using my name.”
An Instagram user by the name of “missydentryholem” posted a comment to the video, claiming to be a family member of the restaurant owners and breaking down what she says was the timeline of what happened:
Whoopi- My family was not going to commit to an order two weeks out when they didn’t know if the boiler could work properly on that day to produce that specific product. When we knew we could come through, closer to the date of delivery, that’s when it was confirmed that you could have your desserts. This is what good business practice is, plain and simple. No politics necessary. As for not naming us….. Well that goes without saying, clearly everyone knew who you were referring to. Your defamation of our hard working family for your victimized political agenda is pitiful, no matter what side of the politics spectrum you are on.
‘Nuff said.
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