In PIttsburgh earlier this week, Mitt Romney slighted a popular local bakery when he speculated on the origin of some cookies that were set out to welcome him. “I’m not sure about these cookies, they don’t look like you made them,” Romney told people gathered to greet him. The cookies, he said, looked like they came from “a local 7-Eleven bakery or wherever.”
The comments evolved into what locals are calling “CookieGate,” and the slighted Bethel Bakery is now running a CookieGate special deal: buy a dozen, get a half dozen free.
“When I heard it, I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness. This guy has no idea how beloved this institution is that provided these cookies,'” bakery owner John Walsh told WTAE in Pittsburgh. “We wanted him to be welcomed with the best in the burgh, and he had no idea.”
