It’s one thing to not get a joke (God knows I don’t get enough of them). It’s another thing to assume that, if you don’t get the joke, the joker must be Evil and the joke must be Even More Eviller.
I’m not sure I’d ever go out of my way to get Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy — gummi candy in the shape of critters run over by cars, complete with tread marks — especially since I don’t particularly care for gummi candy. But in the long tradition of Gross Products That Appeal To Kids, it seems pretty harmless.
To me, at least. Not to animal rights activists.
The fruity-flavored Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy — in shapes of partly flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels — fosters cruelty toward animals, according to the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
“It sends the wrong message to children, that it’s OK to harm animals. And that’s the wrong message, especially from a so-called wholesome corporation like Kraft,” said society spokesman Matthew Stanton.
Right. That was immediately what I thought: “If Katherine sees this, she’ll think it’s okay to run over animals with the car. Just like she thinks it’s okay to drop anvils on the heads of roadrunners and/or coyotes. Gads!”
*sigh*
And Kraft, bless their little hearts, has decided that controversy is bad food business, and so has pulled the plug on the product. It’s hard to blame them, but it’s irksome nonetheless, since I suspect the “consumers” they are kowtowing to are no more representative of the population at large than the “viewers” that protest various TV shows.
Score one for the humor-impaired (and for those who say the putative Left can be as self-righteously censorious as the Right).
(via BoingBoing)