Posted on 01/17/2014 11:27:54 AM PST by bkopto
German sweet maker Haribo said Friday it had stopped selling some of its liquorice sweets in Sweden and Denmark because certain consumers considered them racist.
The sweets, part of the Skipper Mix salty blend which has been on the market for years, will no longer feature the controversial figures in the future in both Scandinavian countries.
Haribo said it had taken into account the critical comments made over the Internet in recent weeks.
"We decided that we could keep the product while removing the parts that certain consumers found offensive," Haribo Sweden head Ola Dagliden told AFP.
The offending sweets are in the shape of ethnic masks or facial representations that resemble primitive African, Asian or Native American art.
They depicted what "a sailor who travelled the world" in days would have brought home in days gone by, Dagliden said.
"It wasn't something we saw as having negative connotations."
A picture of the sweets was removed from Haribo's Swedish website on Friday afternoon, AFP discovered.
Other allegedly racist depictions of African and Asian people have sparked a heated debate in Sweden in the last few years.
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I’ve seen this before. Do NOT read the reviews while eating or drinking, unless you really WANT to clean your monitor and keyboard.
“And then there’s ‘dark’ chocolate. Double plus ungood racist.”
Oh, how I love the taste of doubleplus ungood racism...
The artistry of the writing has to be admired...
It’s too bad they caved in to this liberal racism.
They look like ninja turtles.
I think they are German.
That first review is hilarious! That’s so funny I’m tearing up.
My husband was in a cab with a Somali driver just yesterday (in Sweden). My husband is dark skinned so certain types just assume he is in full agreement with them.
The driver went on the entire drive about how Swedish men have no manhood. How their culture is so weak because they don't respect the family, marriage. How they have no belief in anything but vacations and time off...
Do you think actions like this do anything but make the Scandinavians look even weaker to these, not so friendly, newcomers?
Leftism is a giant suicide cult.
Especially the 70%-80% cocoa varieties.
Ooops - that’s tripleplus mmmm mmmm mmmm good racism.
The World Union of Bears is watching this case closely.
Dhimmi-in-training grovels.
perhaps...
perhaps :-)
LOL & ßookmark
You're laughing now, but this VERY OUTRAGED woman would want it to be so:
Oh the humanity - a computer-generated password hurt my feelings! (At least the comments to the article display a semblence of sanity.)
It might, but: HARIBO = HA-RI-BO = HAns RIegel BOnn (Hans Riegel, Bonn (Germany) - died just last October.)
So, did they reset her password to “nevous nellie”? Guess she would have been offended by that too since it mentioned nerves?
It certainly does. I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard.
http://shop.danish-imports.com/Skipper-Mix-140-g-118.htm
Apparently they also sell ‘Piratos’ and ‘Super Piratos’.
Clearly a prang at the Somalian community.
Hey, in that picture, the first character in the center looks familiar...
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