Amazing

[J-M v2.5.5]

So a few days ago the most well-known weblog here in the Netherlands, GeenStijl, published an email they had received from a woman named Angenita on the front page.

In this email, Angenita mentions she found out something strange about the "Farm Mix" candy bags from candy producer Katja.

There's supposed to be three types of candy in this bag:
- banana-flavoured liquorice monkey heads
- chocolate-flavoured liquorice cow heads
- strawberry-flavoured liquorice pig heads

However, this Angenita told that she hadn't noticed any strawberry-flavoured liquorice pig heads in any of the bags for a few weeks now. She then guessed that Katja (the company that produces the candy) silently removed the pig heads in hopes of not offending people with a certain religious background. In other words: muslims.

At first I thought it was either bull**** or maybe a commercial for Katja (which is odd, because GeenStijl rarely turns commercials into news posts on the front page) but today I was in the local supermarket and I saw a bag of Farm Mix.

So I bought it, opened it back at home, and indeed there are no pig heads to be found.

I don't have a problem with muslims, but *if* it's indeed muslims who complained about candy pig heads being offensive to them, that is just too sad for words. Why act like a big babby when you can simply not buy the ****ing candy?

Discuss!

 

[FER]

They dont act like babies, they just bomb or shot your butt.

Sandrats still are potential buyers, and if the removal of a candy gives the company more money they will do it.

 

[villager]

We have no idea if it's hundreds of muslims complaining or if it's just one. And, it's not the muslims fault that the candy was removed, it was the Katja who decided to stop producing the cow-head shaped candy. And like FER said, money hungry businesses will do anything to keep the buyers buying, even if it's just for one person.

If anime-style Catdog furries got added to the game because Gurluas somehow convince Thothie to add them, is it Gurluas' fault?

EDIT:

Why act like a big babby

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

I said *if*. And yes, if indeed it's muslims who complained, not only are they very sad (only the ones who complained), it'd also mean that Katja's management is composed solely of people who don't have balls.

 

[Keldorn]

I wonder if they will remove the cows for Hindus

 

[FER]

Or maybe they just removed the pig heads because of health treathening ingredients or something.

 

[villager]

Cows, pigs, same farm >>

 

[Keldorn]

Apparently monkeys are "Haram" as well.

Enjoy your choco-cows.

(Edit: Oh wait, it contains gelatin, which may or may not come from pigs or animals not ritually sacrificed to the right god)

No candy for you!

 

[Echo717]

I find candy offensive, please remove it from the world

 

[Keldorn]

I find candy offensive, please remove it from the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RXmNRr8x7I

Take that!

 

[Borya]

I find it offensive that my deity is not being offered in wonderful fruit flavors.

 

[Keldorn]

And what deity would that be?

I suddenly have the desire to create a company to market gummy Jesuses to Catholics.

 

[Thothie]

Pigs and Monkeys are both non-Kosher. Obviously, it's the Jews, slowly eating away at your gummy-candy eating rights.

Usually, with this sort of insanity, there is no complaint involved - it's someone higher in the company, or otherwise critical to the company, who normally minds their own business, suddenly having an "idea".

I suspect it's become part of the anti-sandrat media movement though. Seems anytime anything odd comes up that *might* (or does) involve Muslims, they blow it up like a pair of trade towers. Suspect doubly so in Europe... Folks don't know how to integrate out there.

 

[Srgnt Rehab]

I heard that pigs are Cthulhu's favorite... Perhaps he is taking them all to cause mass chaos in the Master Sword Community?

It also could be a budget cut... people do the weirdest things to save money.

 

[Gorynych]

I said *if*. And yes, if indeed it's muslims who complained, not only are they very sad (only the ones who complained), it'd also mean that Katja's management is composed solely of people who don't have balls.

Either that or they're smart enough to avoid being blew up. Notracist.jpg

I still think it's stupid having a sweet, that albeit looks pretty tasty, removed because they may find it offensive. Next Blackjacks will stop being sold because IT'S Racist. The little Fredo bars removed, because it's offensive to the French?

 

[Echo717]

Suspect doubly so in Europe... Folks don't know how to integrate out there.