Will no-one rid us of these turbulent "racist" chocolate ducklings?

saw a video on youtube about this earlier, someone phoned into LBC complaining about it being racist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGON9h1ALs

Is this the sort of thing yous watch on tuesday evenings because the CL is not broadcast into your areas?

Waitrose has removed a set of Easter-themed chocolate ducklings from its shelves after accusations of racism.

The trio of sweet treats, consisting of mini white, milk, and dark chocolate ducklings, were originally labelled “crispy”, “fluffy” and “ugly” on the packaging.

The product in its original form has since been axed, and replaced by a redesign, after receiving “a small number of complaints” that the “ugly” dark chocolate duckling had racist connotations.


Keep the ducks and rid us of these virtue signalling eejits who complained.

Alun..get a life  .  Your quackers.

Alun says you've to duck off.

It's all the fault of Hans Christian Andersen


A Waitrose spokesperson has since confirmed to Yahoo UK, “the ugly duckling” is a reference to a fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

The story features a song with the lyrics: “There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and brown, and the other birds said in so many words, get out of town.”

And he went with a quack and a waddle and a quack
In a flurry of eiderdown

Deported when you think about it.

bought some of them chocolate teapots from waitrose, never
really looked at owt else for easter

Easter ? Surely you mean 'Springterval'

Define 'Springterval'

Common sense is no longer common any more. Instead its level seems to have deteriorated to a level resembling than of a moron. A "complaint" against nothing, I think. Where is the spirit of Easter, pc police person?

Anyone into pistachio ice-cream may I suggest one tries out Waitrose's own brand or the more expensive made by Grom - they are absolutely creamilicious!

mouse - as Winterval is to Xmas

I prefer White chocolate. Not the cheap stuff.

Fluffy

the store should have more sense than to market the chocolates this way in the first place with said captions .   It's obvious that these could be construed as racist  (daft or not )  so why fuel the fire ? 

I guess it's unfortunate that the three colours represent the three main skin tones of black, brown and beige  (no humans are actually 'white'  - polar bears are white

I suppose Fluffy could also be Chinese in many eyes   

................I guess it's unfortunate that the three colours represent the three main skin tones of black, brown and beige

Yeah , those victorian chocolate manufacturers and their wretched racist symbolism . Thank goodness that the world is now a better place and these evil cocoa processors are being sanctioned accordingly

Spike Lee is going to make a movie about this. I'm up for the role of crispy.

I would have accepted a part in it if Eider received an offer

I'd love-a duck based pun to respond with, but can think of one.

I dont like chocolate tea pots ider

You can still buy Black Magic chocolates, I presume that's ok as its a positive for the colour?

What I wouldn't give to see Robertsons reintroduce the logo on their produce and invest in a nationwide marketing campaign

With any luck today's non-story will be marginally more entertaining than this one.

Fake news should be deployed as propaganda rather than simply for boring peoples.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/47859657/bloke-releases...

I'm not offended by the colour or names of the afore mentioned. What DOES concern me is the cultural appropriation of ducks.

I'll never shop in Waitrose again.

I'm offended by chocolate, it should be banned.
I can't boycott Waitrose, where else would I get Rians fromage frais?

Reynard

I was in a antiques/collectors shop the other day, there were loads of the original giveaway figures from Robertsons for sale, including a hand puppet

How many did you purchase?

'lovegod', indeed,...calling it White Magic would not sound right. Imagine a customer enters a shop and says..."Can I have a box of White Magic please?" That has numerous connotations; White Magic,...magic mushroom? Cocaina?

That "famous" household named chocolate no doubt is patented at huge costs.