A Menorcan bakery's response to a Catalanophobic customer: "We don't want your money or people with your values."
The Can Pons bakery in Menorca also reproaches him for saying that "loving one language does not mean despising another."
PalmCan Pons, an artisan pastry shop in Menorca, has gone viral on social media in recent days due to the Catalanophobic response they received from a user who told them they had always followed them, but "was unsubscribing because you don't speak Spanish, our national language. Good luck, but not with my money." The establishment's response was immediate and both direct and forceful: "We don't want your money or customers with your way of understanding life. Loving one language doesn't mean despising another."
One of the owners of the establishment also assures that much of their corporate communication is done in Spanish because "we know it's the language of a large part of our community." However, they emphasize that Menorcan is their mother tongue, the one they grew up with, the one their parents and godparents spoke, and the one they have taught their children. "We will always defend it," they emphasize in the video.
They also add that for them, chatting and communicating in Menorcan is "taking care of what we are and our roots" and they add that, if they lose followers because of it, "it doesn't worry us in the least, we accept it with conviction."
However, they conclude that they prefer "a thousand times more a small community that shares our values and respects our origins than a large one that doesn't."