Were You Or Your Kids Scared By A Syrup Logo?

[Khandro]

It seems wokeism is at it again;

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1868440/lyles-golden-syrum-victim-wokeism

[andy-hughes]

I can honestly say I have never noticed the design on the tin. 

I used to serve in my parents' grocery shop for years, must have handled dozens of tins, never noticed the design.

Some people see things in a certain way because they are looking for things to be woke about.

[THECORBYLOON]

The tin isn't changing and the Biblical quote hasn't gone so I don't know what some folk are getting upset about.

[Atheist]

When I was a tiny tot I was very woke in the sense that everything fascinated me, and the lion on the tin was very interesting. I used to wonder why bees were swarming around it, and gathered that bees somehow got sweetness from its corpse (although obviously not honey 'cos that comes from flowers).

It was fun to be 'woke' in those days; now it's become another term in the USA's vocabulary of insults for when you're bored or peed off and fancy being rude or having a good slanging match.

 

 

[Patsy33]

Like a few others, I didn't notice the lion was dead. I don't think it would enter a child's mind. I just remember seeing a lion. 

[Atheist]

Patsy; it did look as though it was asleep, but I sussed out what was really going on, even though my nanny and governesses. tried to cover the label with a linen napkin

[Countrylover]

To be honest I've never looked at the logo in  my life.  You learn something new every day.

I'm glad Kens not invited me to tea!!  

[piggynose]

Maybe I'm a minority! I didn't know that tiny image depicted a rotten lions carcass! Surely Lyle's could come up with something more apt!! Relating to poss cake making!!

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Prudie]

Atheist I completely disagree, this is a historical logo and it has been changed directly as a result of woke complaints. You said "What does frighten me is the obsessive hunt for 'wokeness' and a wish by right-wingers to stoke ill-feeling between people."

In other words you want to change things to suit a 'woke' agenda but don't communicate the fact in case anyone notices and objects and if they do they are right-wing activists?

Can you not step back and see how totally ludicrous it is to change this in case it frightens a child. I was scared by Cruella in Disney 101 dalmations. Should that be therefore changed to suit me?

 

[Old_Geezer]

I can't wait forever for most of the pictures to appear; but...

 

Sounds like they also have a bunch of morons in charge of the company.

 

Interesting fact: leave the tin on the shelf for ages and the contents go stiff and black !

[Ken4155]

Countrylover "I'm glad Kens not invited me to tea."

I woudn't be so rude as to have the tv on when i have visitors. Those goat-eating dragons will still be there after the guests have gone😉

[Atheist]

Prudie; I really do think that for people to get so het-up over such a trivial issue is very sad ('sad' in the old-fashioned way, not the insult it has become).

Are companies to be allowed to choose their own marketing strategy? Or should they be bossed around by the 'anti-woke' faction?

[Patsy33]

You were obviously very observant, Atheist 😃

[Countrylover]

Ken, it's still hearing the goat bleating inside the lion that would freak me out!!   See you soon - I like Lemon drizzle cake, or failing that coffee and walnut! ;0)

[Old_Geezer]

I'm surprised that everyone didn't know both the logo and the biblical myth.

 

Well Corby, I think the outrage is about yet another company going woke and using that as the reason for changing something. That needs to be stamped out from society and a return made to sanity.

 

It's water, sugar, and citric acid apparently. Not directly connected to honey, but they're all sugar products aren't they.

[Prudie]

But Atheist they (the company) have been bossed around by the woke faction - whether it's the daft young graduates in their marketing team or outside pressure. Whover it is has pushed them to change. I'm not sure why you don't see that. Someone has forced them and then others are not allowed to mock it.

[Atheist]

Prudie, I don't get it. Who has forced them, and how did they force? Do you now want to force them to do what you want? It's just something whipped up by culture warriors who've got nothing better to do.

I mean, do you really think that companies should not be allowed to consider the tastes and desires of their customers? Should they have to submit new ideas to the Ministry of Common Sense, or the Ministry of Tory Taste?

[DTCwordfan]

No - always thought that the lion found himself in a sticky situation.

 

Now, I want a 'Thunder & Lightning', a Cornish tea dish.....

[Atheist]

DTC; Black treacle for a T and L. isn't it?

[Prudie]

You just cannot see my point. Why did the company decide to change the logo?