Easter Chocolate Duckings Now Deemed Racist.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6900501/Waitrose-pulls-racist-chocolate-Easter-ducklings-sale.html

I might as well ask, why did Waitrose choose to include two dark chocolate one's and only one white one, oh dear, oh dear.

[aelmpvw]

sigh

[Mamyalynne]

Wibble

[Togo]

There once was an ugly duckling with feathers all stubby and brown. Aww go on. Tis the season of hot cross bunnies.

[spathiphyllum]

Only one white because, milk chocolate, Dark chocolate and white chocolate are the three standard chocolates.

Over sensitivity.. if you compare a chocolate duck to racism then god help us all. Next thing Easter eggs will have to be all colours not to upset anyone.

[agchristie]

A teal one would be nice ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[spathiphyllum]

Absolutely pathetic, and rather stupid, very stupid complaint to make. The woman's not even aware there are 3 classic types of chocolate.

[woofgang]

read the article! slightly silly to label the dark chocolate one (or indeed any of them) "ugly" I mean they might as well have put up a sign saying "if you want to be offended look here"

[Lie-in King]

Good grief.

[spathiphyllum]

There aint enough bubble wrap in the world for some people.

[aelmpvw]

waitrose should have labelled the white one as ugly, then we wouldn't be having this pointless conversation

[dannyk13]

Racist? No, insensitive? Yes.

[spathiphyllum]

the only thing ugly, or rather stupid and pathetic, is comparing a chocolate duck and it's label to different races around the world.

[Ken4155]

Perhaps they should have named the ducklings, (l to r) Ali, John and Winston :-//

[Mamyalynne]

The duckling on the right didn't wear an apron while painting - again!

[fender62]

confection censorship you couldn't make it up.

[fender62]

just a thought, what happened to the cadbury advert, of the woman eating a flake....was that considered innuendo or false advertising.

[naomi24]

//customers complained about the dark brown one being labelled as 'ugly'//

But as the story goes, the ugly one turned out to be the best! Maybe the complainants should have tasted them before complaining.

High time people - including the powers that be at Waitrose - stopped kowtowing to politically correct stupidity. It serves only to encourage idiots and trouble-makers.

[anotheoldgit]

[Mamyalynne]

Fender

//The Flake girl was finally retired after 40 years, in 2004. However, in 2005 she was found to have a 19% recall in the UK population, leading to a revival in 2007. The new advert featured Australian model Alyssa Sutherland eating a Flake in a convertible during a shower of rain.//