WAITROSE has apologised over a "racist" Easter duckling product after customers complained the dark chocolate one was labelled "ugly".
The £8 box set of white, milk and dark chocolate ducklings upset some people for being marked "fluffy", "crispy" and "ugly".This is the chocolate Easter product which caused offence as the dark chocolate duckling is labelled 'ugly' It was temporarily pulled from shelves by the high-end supermarket so the packaging could be redesigned after a "small number" of customers were offended.Although not made explicitly clear by supermarket bosses, it's thought that the name "ugly" may have been chosen as a reference to the classic fairy tale song The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen.
The song is about a "stubby and brown" duckling which is mocked and shamed by other ducklings, but grows into a beautiful white swan. One Twitter user shared a picture of the chocolate product and wrote: "Crispy, Fluffy and Ugly - trio of Easter ducklings at Waitrose."Overheard women saying 'this is not right', I agree, doesn't look good at all.
Should put another one in there called 'professionally offended snowflake'
Go on.... What 'customers'?. Grown a spine Waitrose.
How pathetic
Nonsense
Michael1962D
FFS it’s milk chocolate and white chocolate - that’s it nothing sinister. !
I’m more confused by the crispy ducky to be honest
The elephant in the room is that as a white gay man I’d rather be called crisp than fluffy! Gets on my beak this stereotyping.
It’s wrong
I feel a bit like my childhood is slowly being erased thereoncewasanuglyduckling takingthingstoofar
Pathetic milk , white, dark , chocolate!!!!
Load of bollocks !
It seems some people will turn absolutely Anything into a racism issue. In my opinion- it's usually people that are racists themselves that use that card. I am neither black nor 'white' and i see nothing but 3 chocolate ducks! Like Really?
People are pathetic. How the hell is this racist
It's chocolate. Why are people getting offended by chocolate?
I too resent being depicted as fluffy.
FFS I hope the never do a re-run of the seventies sitcom ‘Love Thy Neighbour’ or they’ed be anarchy in the streets!
waitrose I see three Chocolate Ducks, 1 White chocolate, 1 milk chocolate and 1 dark chocolate, if people are offended by these then they need to have a head shake and try to join the real world. muppets who was allowed to give birth to these cockwombles ?
The people who thought this in the first place are the obvious racists! All I saw was chocolate and reference to the ugly duckling. Pathetic idiots!!!
rolling on the floor laughing. ugly I feel you 🤣🤣
rejectai Dark chocolate 🍫 milk chocolate 🍫 white chocolate 🍫
Well get rid of the white ones too then!!!!!! It’s racist just getting rid of one !!! Let’s have clear chocolate shall we ? How bloody stupid
Bet the customers were all white people
What the actual !!!! Who the hell complains about a chocolate duck named after a character in a childrens’ story !!
Anybody making a link between different types of chocolate and actual races of people are clearly the ones who are racist
My goodness!! All I see are milk chocolate, white and dark chocolate.
I think these people that compliant about these stupid things just do it for a laugh
F*ck a Duck seriously 🤨 🤔 I just wonder if the customers that complain are about to go abroad to get a TAN 😂🤦♀️ common sense is like deodorant the people that need it the most never use it 😂
For ducks sake...this is Quakers 😂🤣
Just when you think things can't get any more ridiculous.
One for my mate ConnorW89 this 😂😂
R u having a laugh!!!! the world is goin mad 🤪
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I saw these in Waitrose and my initial thoughts were that calling one Crispy is pretty hilarious! Ugly and Fluffy - standard Duck names! As for being racist lol 😂 People need to calm the F*** down!!
OMG! This is so racist! How dare waitrose compare POC to ducks. It is almost 50 years since Malcom 10 made his “I have a dream” speech and still we have to deal with this nonsense!
Racist ducklings never grow into a swan
The only thing anyone reasonable would find offensive about this is the £8 price tag for so little chocolate..omg!! In Piers Morgan's absence let me say it 'The World's Gone Nuts' 🙈😣
This is nothing but duckism poor ducks
Some ppl have easy lives of that's all they have to moan about 😬
When are we going to stop being dictated to by small minority’s ! These shops need to stand up to people like this who are offended by the slightest thing ! Snowflake generation. Maybe they’ve never read a book called “The Ugly Duckling” Stop bowing to these people
it is chocolate !!!!! come on !!!
OMG really? Get that bloody big chip off your shoulder!
Why didn’t the waitrose spokesperson just be honest and “It’s chocolate you f**king imbeciles. We’re not withdrawing it from sale so go and f**k yourselves”. That would gain much respect 👍🏻
Ridiculous.
Waitrose please can you tell me what you are doing with the supposedly ‘offensive’ chocolates, I’d like to buy some?
Well it is ugly
Lol i can see what people are complaining abiut but I would never have thought there was anything racist about this!!
It is chocolate for goodness sake. Waitrose should have had thicker skin when dealing with this
Why is everyone so easily offended these days..I swear people just look at things and I think this offends me I'm gonna complain....time for all chocolate to be banned....seriously!!!
This is just quackers.
Seriously so we going to ban white and dark chocolate now .
If they were Drake's that'll be sexist to🤔
It's chocolate for goodness sake.
There's always some people who moan, I don't see any problem with these. They are just chocolate!!
Pathetic! When will people grow up? Never if other people suck up to their patheticness! It's bloody chocolate and we all know the story of the ugly duckling. Christ, I am incensed.
While I don’t usually attach “everything”I see with race i can appreciate why people are upset..if ugly is Hans Christian Anderson what reference to fairy tales are the other two?
What bollocks!
Omg so now chocolate is racist. Whatever next, brown coloured cloth g to be banned and anyone wearing should be imprisoned. How pathetic is the UK becoming. Snowflakes everywhere, I supose that will be racist next, white snow.
Is this for real? One is milk chocolate, one white chocolate and one dark, what is some people’s problem. The world has gone PC mad, come on ffs, surely there’s worse things going on in the world to kick up a fuss about, it’s chocolate and it’s Easter 😳😳😳
What is happening to this world!!!
You're having a laugh.
Well why is it racist it's three diffrent types of chocolate. Waitrose are making it worst by bowing to it out of fear of being labelled
steviespry ! Can u actually believe !
What a load of bollocks
Nothing wrong, they are not Homosapiens
Have people got nothing else better todo
Where is race mentioned? Three typical types of chocolate. Anyone who sees this as racist is the one with the problem.
Who gives a duck?
Some people really are pathetic
Give over.
This country is so politically correct the do gooders see something in kids chocolate easter eggs thats just that an easter egg. Shove your crap where the sun doesn't shine
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ScottEaglen I give up
I saw two of them on smethwick high street earlier tonight, decided to use the ATM further up the road.
Absolute madness it's chocolate
Political Correctness has turned once proud country that defeated Nazi to a nation of bedwetting cry babies who won't leave EU. Spoil Child ruin Empire.
PC gone CRAZY!!
pandering to the oversensitive snowflake hystericals again ,whoever complained just really has nothing better to do with their life go help them if they ever encounter real problems that cant be solved by group thinking
How the hell is this even being racist ? It’s 3 different types of chocolate, dark, milk and white. Some people need to get a grip
The snowflakery in this once great country has gotten beyond a joke now .time for a change in softbritain
IT'S FUCKING CHOCOLATE!!! 🤬 X
Was it DavidLammy the one complaining by any chance?
Which would you eat first ?
I would have said this attempt mirrors all of the labour parties marketing. One of each colour. If anything it's very politically correct. How is it racist ?!
The worlds gone mad. It’s fucking chocolate
So let’s teach non white kids that white is best why not get rid of the white one and do 3 chocolate?
It’s them that’s racist not the chocolate if they think like that , idiots everywhere 🙄
Ffs😫🤢
Gender neutral chocolate next...blend of all 3 !
It’s fucking chocolate for Christ’s sake!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡 make the white one ugly, just swap them around in the packet! Some people just go looking to be offended!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡
It’s freaking chocolate
latelateshow TheView Have people LOST THEIR MINDS? CHOCOLATEDUCK
Please tell me that’s a joke?!?!?!
Name and shame the complainers i would love to no what they look like.
WTF GET A LIFE
Ffs it’s chocolate!!! Just eat it 😡 fecking pc brigade 😩
Unbelievable.
I hope this is a joke, why would waitrose remove dark, milk & white chocolate just because someone wants to stir up trouble! So is all food that is white or brown going to be racist. Crazy
Waitrose is right to pull it of the shelves some sad thickos would associate it with Black people and use it against them, personally I would have eaten the lot before reading the labels
Hahahahhahahahhahahahha this one is actually funny, choclate fucking ducks
Ffs 😡 I don't know what this world is coming to.😡😡
Heard / seen it all now ppl got to much time on there hands!! 🙄
It’s chocolate ffs! If people are genuinely offended by this they need to get a grip, sick of all this pc bollocks 🙄😴
About time, really hurts my feeling when other races call me Fluffy
I think they’re ‘egg-cellent’’. Some of us get ‘egg-cited’ about Easter. I think the worlds gone ‘quackers’!
Racism has nothing to do with it its milk dark and white chocolate
So basically ones milk chocolate,ones white chocolate,and ones dark chocolate....wtf is wrong with all these snowflake people in today’s society,get a life ffs 🤬🤬🤬
Love racist ducks, isthat like racist snow
Which dumb shit thought of this? Someone actually got paid for this idea? Unbelievable.
So milk chocolate,and dark chocolate are now racist ? WTF
It’s about time these “customers” came out from behind their bushel and made themselves known to the rest of us. Then we can tell them face to face how completely fucked up they are !
All I can say is
Well offended being called fluffy
Wdf LOL.. it's milk chocolate, white chocolate & dark chocolate! I would certainly buy coz I love all 3!! What is wrong with this world? Give ppl the option to buy! If u don't like it Mooooveeeeee on byyyyyyyyyyy! Quack quack 😋🙄🙄🙄
Here we go again!!!
cnbcwatcher90 The fact that all the white people in the comments do not see the issue and even refuse to accept that there is an issue with such dismissive comments is hilarious..... micro racists everywhere
Stop the world I wanna get off
How does something like this make the news . . . Don't you have reporters anymore . . . . Geeesh
But no one would give a fuck if it was the lighter one, because I don't
Snowflakes everywhere.
Amazing how race is literally dragged Into everything 🤦🏼♀️
Ffs 😡😡😡
Jeez!! What is wrong with these people!!
Put ugly on the white one
Snowflakes
When will they start banning black t-shirts and pants?
This is just quackers!!
For y'all that aren't getting it... The dark chocolate is labelled as 'ugly'... This can be seen as racist so waitrose is morally obligated to remove it
Why don’t they just open the box and swap the order of the ducks
Who even thinks of these things...it certainly wouldn't have even entered my head!!
Is this a belated April Fool?! waitrose what on earth are you thinking? Another example of people pandering to snowflake & OTT PC Brigades. worldsgonemad pcbrigade pandering justridiculous
It's summer so it's about time the snowflakes disappeared now and leave us to eat our chocolate whatever chocolate we like
Ffs! Really!!!
FFS it's milk chocolate, white chocolate and dark chocolate? Looks nice, it's not as if there's a yellow one with slitty eyes called Jackie Chan, a dark one called immigrant or gangster and a white one called white trash or Nazi that would be racist! It's fucking chocolate!
Oh FFS
Whoever complained should be arrested
BORING
How ridiculous when you read the reasons of the objection, raising issues of colour and racism, the black and white, the crust of the story - whoops I used the white and black word, nevermind regardless of creed or colour we are all human beings.
Some people need to get a grip honestly what sad lives they must have,nothing better to do than moan and throw the race card.its ridiculous! I am not racist,and do believe the only thing that should be separated by colour-is our washing-the whole thing has got out of hand
People are getting stabbed on a daily basis, and morons like this still freely roam the streets
How is that racist ? Milk , white and dark chocolate!
Was gunna say let's go back to the black and white days but I'll say pink and blue!!
Fookin crazy 😁😁😂😈
Why are they racist?
Racist chocolates? Mind boggling.
This political correctness is sheer madness.
Where is the pink duck? This is homophobic.
These idle people should complain about the use of plastic bags in shops and advocate for paper bags and not stop attacking chocolate!! Yes I love chocolate - now you know
BULLSHIT with a capital B.
It’s bloody chocolate man. Ffs. The world is bloody mad.
Oh Fuckoff
Somebody has a pack of cards but only pulls out the race one!
STOP THIS NONSENSE AT ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who is raising these complaints? These people should be fined. Leave chocolate out of this madness. We’ve always had dark milk & white chocolate. STOP!!!
It's a ducking joke ?
Omg.. get a f**king life.., they are chocolate ducks.. no more no less.. jeez.. !!! What the hell is up with people nowadays...
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People need to look up the definition of racist more
Haven't people got proper things to panic about...
Was it necessary to name them? We can see that it is 3 chocolate duck shapes. I doubt the recipient would notice, on their way to demolishing these.
Can someone please explain to me what is racist about a chocolate duck
FFS. Surely it's time companies made a stance against this PC and snowflakes bollocks.
FFS!
Tbf all 3 look nasty!!!
Chopper1683
Ffs 🤦🏻♂️
Grow up! Why complain, nothing better to do! What's racist about it?
People have become so pathetic It makes me sad. What will someone be offended by next
They called the black duck ugly FFS 🤦🏾♂️
Why do companies listen to a minority of voices
Please make it stop 😱
Grow up
ITS CHOCOLATE!!!
pineapple_piza 🙈🙈 the world is crazy!
Never heard such utter rubbish!!
Not much to say other than it rhymes with duck off idiots
Read a book
How patheric...its chocolate yiu muppets
Why would they call it ugly? That’s jus plain weird🤔
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PSSST...... the actual racists are the ones who find ‘race’ in every aspect of life, where no race is mentioned or discussed, purely to enhance the push for ‘racism’ to divide us all.
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Ugly duckling is young swan. Surely this was just an innocent oversight with no malice afortehought whatsoever?
First Brexit, now this... The worlds gone crazy!
The, what can I be offended by today brigade, have outdone themselves on this one
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Racism; prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
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