Racist chocolate ducklings

bazz26 · 09-04-2019 05:22PM

This type of advertising reminds me of Father Ted & Father Dougal protesting outside the cinema about a raunchy film where the protest actually brought more people to watch the film and see what all the fuss was about.

kowloon · 09-04-2019 06:01PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepgKVOVfZ8

Atoms for Peace · 09-04-2019 06:06PM

StereoSound wrote: »

If I walked into a car dealer and bought a white car instead of the black one parked next to it, would that make me a racist ?

It just means you have vulgar taste.

Zorya · 09-04-2019 07:21PM

The thinking behind the names seems odd. Ugly from the Ugly Duckling. Fluffy..uh, because, ducks are fluffy?

Crispy ...because of crispy Peking Duck or something?

Hahah it's so random. I would probably look crooked at it to be honest.

Cienciano · 09-04-2019 07:27PM

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

It's been there a while and it's certainly true for certain chains and brands. I remember a attempt at boycott of Ivanca Trump's clothes brand actually drove up sales

Maybe very short term. Because sales were right down and the clothing brand closed down
https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-brands-online-sales-dropped-in-last-year-report-2018-7?r=US&IR=T

vetinari · 09-04-2019 07:41PM

Some weird naming alright. Pretty random.
There might be some truth to the theory that this was planned as a marketing ploy.
It's very easy to trigger the anti PC people online these days. It's a surefire way to get publicity.

Yakult · 09-04-2019 07:43PM

The boys in marketing are goooooooood

Skeleton Key · 09-04-2019 07:44PM

Is there anything libtards won't lose their **** over?

shamrock55 · 09-04-2019 07:44PM

It's the people who think these things have the problem, if I'd seen this in the shop I'd never connect it with racism, ridiculous rubbish tbh

Snotty · 09-04-2019 07:59PM

I like the way the idiot on twitter "overheard" someone else being offended by the duck, classic attempt to give some credence to her own stupid opinion by pretending she's not the only one.

There will always be idiots, always have been always will be, the problem here is the media that lap this stuff up. So called journalists actually spend all day scouring social media, they then contact the company for their response and suddenly they have a story for nothing.

suicide_circus · 09-04-2019 08:35PM

do you know who was honestly offended by this?

nobody.

09-04-2019 08:46PM

StereoSound wrote: »

Everything is racist these days isn't it ? People have nothing else to complain about...

https://news.sky.com/story/waitrose-apologises-for-selling-racist-chocolate-ducklings-after-criticism-11688611

Why is it always white getting offended on black peoples behalf? Its just pathetic!

RhubarbCrumble · 09-04-2019 08:47PM

I'm surprised somebody hasn't found the pale duck 'offensive to albino people'.

Vita nova · 09-04-2019 08:48PM

I'm always amazed by the inability of advertisers to see how an ad might be misunderstood. There was a similar case last year with a H&M ad that featured a black child wearing a hoodie with the word monkey emblazoned on it: link

RobbingBandit · 09-04-2019 08:50PM

Ducks in choco face well I never

kowloon · 09-04-2019 09:30PM

Skeleton Key wrote: »

Is there anything libtards won't lose their **** over?

Weren't you upset about tight trousers in another thread?

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I'm surprised somebody hasn't found the pale duck 'offensive to albino people's.

You're running the risk of losing the white chocolate if you do that.

Skeleton Key · 09-04-2019 09:36PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why is it always white getting offended on black peoples behalf? Its just pathetic!

Its called white saviour complex.

pleas advice · 09-04-2019 09:37PM

Vita nova wrote: »

I'm always amazed by the inability of advertisers to see how an ad might be misunderstood. There was a similar case last year with a H&M ad that featured a black child wearing a hoodie with the word monkey emblazoned on it: link

'cheeky monkey', grand for a white kid to wear, but put it on a black child and theres a problem?
Who's the real racist here?

09-04-2019 09:37PM

i'd love some chocolate now

Woke Hogan · 09-04-2019 09:45PM

inforfun wrote: »

You are not wrong there.
Couple of weeks ago one of those twitter warriors in The Netherlands took it upon herself to start protesting some shop for having Israeli wine on the shelves.

Thing went viral, wine got sold out and #tipvanmieke (recommanded by Mieke - mieke being the twitter warrior) was trending.

And this was in the shops:

Israel is an apartheid state.

Skeleton Key · 09-04-2019 09:51PM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Israel is an apartheid state.

But do they make good wine?

Woke Hogan · 09-04-2019 09:56PM

Skeleton Key wrote: »

But do they make good wine?

I would rather drink swill than that poison, and toast anyone with enough backbone to criticise and boycott a prejudicial, corrupt, and morally illegal state over buying cheap wine.

ShooterSF · 09-04-2019 09:59PM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Israel is an apartheid state.

Is it a state owned vineyard? Or can people born there not start up businesses? The owner might not have a political or religious bone in their body.

Alrigghtythen · 09-04-2019 10:00PM

Such ****e

Woke Hogan · 09-04-2019 10:05PM

ShooterSF wrote: »

Is it a state owned vineyard? Or can people born there not start up businesses? The owner might not have a political or religious bone in their body.

Wealthy winemakers who have benefitted enough from the State of Israel’s infrastructure to be able to export overseas are complicit in their state’s crimes. No less than any citizen of a state engaged in criminality and human rights abuses anyway.

Spook_ie · 09-04-2019 10:09PM

StereoSound wrote: »

If I walked into a car dealer and bought a white car instead of the black one parked next to it, would that make me a racist ?

No but you could be colour prejediced

Snotty · 10-04-2019 01:00AM

Vita nova wrote: »

I'm always amazed by the inability of advertisers to see how an ad might be misunderstood. [/URL]

No, what is amazing is stupid people who seek out anything to get their nickers in a twist over. I'd speculate the person who sees the word "black" as only referring to a skin colour is far more racist than normal people who know black is the colour of millions of things aside from skin.

Eircom_Sucks · 10-04-2019 01:03AM

Cina wrote: »

I agree with them. It's a disgrace to call white people fluffy. I'm ashamed enough of my bumfluff as it is.

Rip off ricky gervais much ?

Rubberchikken · 10-04-2019 01:08AM

it's too hatd to believe manufacturers and pr companies are stupid enough not to realise some dipstick offence nimrod isnt going to find fault somewhere.
ah advertising.

Snotty · 10-04-2019 01:34AM

Rubberchikken wrote: »

it's too hatd to believe manufacturers and pr companies are stupid enough not to realise some dipstick offence nimrod isnt going to find fault somewhere.
ah advertising.

This isn't Coke Cola and a huge manufacturing and marketing project, this is tat made in China where no one is going to pick up on something in English and the retailers buy cheap crap like this in bulk with hundreds of other products, the person frrom retail side might have spent less than 5 seconds looking at this.

Racist chocolate ducklings

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