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to a story you'll see only on 10 tonight. A Norton bakery shares a photo of a customer's order depicting a cartoon dressed as Adolf Hitler. Well, as you can imagine, it gained a mixed response from the community and we're hearing exclusively now from the owner of that bakery. Tonight, team's John Perrick is live in studio with why she says she baked that cake. John, Dan, and Patrice. That's right. The owner tells us originally when a customer asked for it, she wasn't super comfortable doing it, but ultimately decided on a fictional cartoon version of Hitler. And like all of the cakes that she bakes, she posted it on social
media. And since it's been the talk of the town, what's done is done. Deeply, deeply offensive. Cake controversy in Norton. Why did you make a cake with Hitler's face on it? Um, I was asked by a customer if I would be willing to embark on a bit of a sensitive topic. That sensitive topic was a cake with a cartoon version of Adolf Hitler on it. Melanie Bareric is the owner of Sweet Stuff Bake Shop in Norton. She says a company ordered it for an employee leaving. Bareric says she was told the employee has the same birthday as Hitler. I've done several cakes for this
company and it's always been something like inside jokey for the employees. Bareric says she originally felt uneasy about the idea but settled on doing it under the condition that it would be a character from the TV series South Park dressed as Hitler. When you were making the cake at any point did you think that this was wrong? Um I'm going to say this. When I am making a cake and I work anywhere from 70 to 100 hours a week, it becomes a process and it really becomes a box check. and did the artwork get done? But after she got it done, she posted it on her Facebook before taking it down and posting this apology. But the Sun Chronicle got their hands on a screenshot. In the comments, some outraged, others call it free speech and
a joke. If someone thinks it's a joke, they need to be educated. Rabbi Yasi Keeman of Mansfield's Habad Jewish Center is calling for education. My wife and I reached out to the owner of the bakery as soon as we heard about this and we offered to have her meet with a local Holocaust survivor. Do you think you did anything bad? I am not sure that's necessarily a fair question because people are going to slaughter one side of the other of that comment. And the owner said she plans on retiring at the end of the month and said she is
not opposed to education. I'm live in studio, John Perrick, NBC 10 News
