A Pennsylvania bakery is using cookies to help predict the winner of the 2024 Presidential election.
Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro is tracking the sales of their red Trump cookies and blue Harris cookies, as customers from all over the US place orders in favor of their choice of candidate.
Bakery owner, Kathleen Lochel, has been sharing the progress of her sweet experiment on social media, noting earlier today that ‘political cookies are sold out for Saturday.’
As of Friday morning, the small business had sold a grand total of 5,200 Trump cookies compared to just 500 Harris cookies.
‘I think that people support Trump all over,’ Lochel told Fox & Friends First.
Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro is tracking the sales of their red Trump cookies and blue Harris cookies as customers from all over the US are placing orders in favor of their candidate
Bakery owner, Kathleen Lochel, has been sharing the progress of her sweet experiment on social media, noting earlier today that ‘political cookies are sold out for Saturday’
The bakery claimed: ‘In Pennsylvania almost all of the shipping has been red. We have only shipped seven packages of blue in the state of Pennsylvania.’
Lochel said she came up with the idea when brainstorming ‘out-of-the-box’ ideas during tough times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘We saw this in 2020 as well,’ the shop-owner said of the greater amount of red cookies sold.
‘A third of that number is being shipped across the United States, we’re seeing people from all over get these cookies now.
‘They’re telling us stories, a lot of people are upset right now with the cost of things and are venting to us, but we stay neutral to things and we love all.’
Lochel has hosted the confectionary poll since 2012, predicting the outcome of three of the last four elections with her winning streak coming to an end following the 2020 election, Fox29 reported, adding that a baker friend of hers, based in Minnesota, has copied her indulgent election-prediction idea.
Ahead of the last presidential election, Lochel’s Bakery sold a total of 31,804 Trump cookies and only 5,750 Biden cookies.
The butter-based cookies are dressed in either red-and-white or blue-and-white sprinkles with a ‘Trump 2024’ or ‘Harris 2024’ banner running through the center
The third generation bakery originally opened in Philadelphia but was eventually closed in 1995 due to a catastrophic fire. Lochel’s reopened in 2005 after a stint working in conjunction with a neighboring bakery, Piazza’s Bakery, according to the shop’s website
The butter-based cookies are dressed in either red-and-white or blue-and-white sprinkles with a ‘Trump 2024’ or ‘Harris 2024’ banner running through the center. Sugar addicts can get six of the ‘famous election cookies’ for $30 – or $5 a piece.
Getting its start in 1942, the small-town shop has had a rich history.
The third generation bakery originally opened in Philadelphia but was eventually closed in 1995 due to a catastrophic fire. Lochel’s reopened in 2005 after a stint working in conjunction with a neighboring bakery, Piazza’s Bakery, according to the shop’s website.
All of the family-run bakery’s products are made from scratch, daily, by Lochel, her brother and other skilled bakers.
As of Friday morning the small business sold a grand total of 5,200 Trump cookies versus a seldom 500 Harris cookies as onlookers speculate the results of the upcoming election
The Hatboro-based shop prides itself on their ‘hard to find’ offerings including German Apple cake, Springerle cookies and Stollen.
Lochel plans to sell the candidate cookies through the November 7 election.
Following the September 10 debate, Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a five-point lead over Donald Trump among registered voters, recent polling shows.
The two candidates met for the first time on Tuesday in the ABC News debate in Philadelphia and spent more than an hour and a half tussling over abortion, the economy and foreign policy.
A DailyMail.com snap poll determined Harris was the winner of the debate and seemed most presidential, while Trump was deemed the most aggressive.
