A small sponge cake topped with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry is the crux of a political skirmish between Whoopi Goldberg and a 146-year-old Staten Island bakery.
Goldberg said Holtermann’s Bakery, in the heart of New York City’s reddest borough, refused to fill an order placed under her name, perhaps because of her liberal politics.
“I should tell you, charlotte russe has no political leanings,” she said. “And the place that made these refused to make them for me.”The live audience gasped. Goldberg’s co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin paused, stricken, forks frozen halfway to their mouths. Another co-host, Sara Haines, spit a forkful of the dessert back onto her plate.
The Holtermanns dispute Goldberg’s insinuation. The bakery’s boiler was broken when the call came in, said Bill Holtermann, a co-owner. While Holtermann said that the bakery’s refusal was not politically motivated, on Staten Island, where Donald Trump trounced Harris by more than 30 percentage points, Goldberg’s umbrage has been a windfall for the bakery.
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