Philadelphia suburb Bakery selling cookies to predict the outcome of the election.
Lochel’s Bakery is located in Hatboro, Pa in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Kathy Lochel started the “cookie poll” during the 2008 election with the candidates Barack Obama and John McCain as a joke between the owners and customers.
They sold blue and white cookies with candidates’ names in order to guess the outcome of the election.
Since then, Lochel’s Bakery has correctly predicted three elections in a row but not in 2020 when former President Donald Trump lost the election to President Joe Biden.
Since 2008, the “cookie poll” tradition has developed into something much greater. Lochel’s Bakery is swamped with orders from all around the world, even as far as Alaska.