master_of_unlocking , 5 months ago

Holy shit. I used to work for this company. The CEO is the definition of Florida Man and treats his employees like shit. I guarantee he got high and put this together himself. Everyone should avoid giving them money (their competitors are better anyway).

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago

I'd love to hear more about those competitors. I kinda like the idea of getting boxes of snacks from other countries delivered, but fuck if I'm going to give these guys any money now.

master_of_unlocking , 5 months ago

Universal Yums is the one I'd recommend.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago

Nice! I'll give them a look

hakunawazo , 5 months ago

Is this a legit ad? Seems like a meme on a KKK message board.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago

Legit ad. I've been on their mailing list since my brother gifted me one of their boxes, and I got this email from them yesterday.

Yeah... won't be ordering anything from them in the future.

TheBlue22 , 5 months ago

This shits disgusts me and I'm white, cant imagine how it must feel for someone who has to contend with systematic racism

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT , 5 months ago

Reprehensible

funkless_eck , 5 months ago

whats worse the only diverse part of it is the curly wurly. you can just get everything else easily.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I'm in the US. We don't get most of the Cadbury stuff here, and what we do get (mostly Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs, sometimes Dairy Milk bars) is made by Hershey under license so it's kinda crap.

Unless, of course, you get it from an importer like World Market or these guys. Though I don't think I'll be buying from these guys in the future.

Jimmyeatsausage , 5 months ago

made by Hershey under license

THAT'S WHY THEY SUCK NOW? I used to love these things as a kid... I still usually buy 1 eqch year, knowing I'll regret it, which I consistently do.

prime_number_314159 , 5 months ago

Easy: fly across the ocean, purchase a few sweets, fly back. If you take your private jet over, you can be there and back in a single day.

trucy , 5 months ago

"It's ok we had a black person writing this"

puchaczyk , 5 months ago

Another proof that people running big companies are sociopaths. Seriously no one looked at that and thought it was distasteful?

Kusimulkku , 5 months ago

"Snackers" huh

Stamau123 , 5 months ago

Sir the clue was 'people who annoy you'

Kusimulkku , 5 months ago

I'm just another snacker guy

KingThrillgore , 5 months ago

Cringe

Pantherina , 5 months ago

Wtf

hungryphrog , 5 months ago

The chocolate industry also does a lot of slavery.

tabris , 5 months ago

And has children working in the supply chain.

DessertStorms , 5 months ago

For anyone unsure, of course Cadbury isn't exempt:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cadbury-exposed-dispatches

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/03/cadbury-faces-fresh-accusations-of-child-labour-on-cocoa-farms-in-ghana

brbposting , 5 months ago

Yikes. Shared with the NAACP.

Floey , 5 months ago

You're doing free advertising for them so I'd say their campaign is potentially successful.

perniczech , 5 months ago

No, now I know to avoid this company

Floey , 5 months ago

You're implying that you would have been a customer. Maybe they lose some current customers off such tactics but if their stuff is being reposted everywhere a lot more people are s hearing about the existence of the service who have never heard of it before, and some of those will be new customers. Obviously many will find it distasteful, but most weren't customers in the first place.

stalfoss , 5 months ago

Right, and as current US politics shows us, pandering to the racists is a winning marketing strategy

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago

Meh. Being a wrestling fan in the late 90s/early 2000s and watching WCW fall apart disabused me of the notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Custoslibera , 5 months ago

I have no clue what brand this chocolate is and I literally just looked at the ad.

I do walk away from this post with a disgusting feeling that dirty capitalists are profiting off of the legacy of MLK though.

OP was fine to bring attention to this.

x4740N , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I also find the image of companies using Martin Luther King's image to advertise and make money pretty distasteful because it erases his history and message and replaces it with advertising and capitalism

FUCK CAPITALISM

jopepa , 5 months ago

He was killed once he started advocating for socialism. Just makes it more obscene.

FakeGreekGirl OP , 5 months ago

Definitely, yeah. But there's the baseline offensive there always is when Capitalism appropriates its critics and criticisms and turns them into commodities to further profit from, and then there's... well, this.

Like, this is an onion of bad choices. There's layers to this shit.

prole , 5 months ago

Like the quote from the rich lady in Disco Elysium:

Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead

prole , 5 months ago

Especially given his outspoken anti-capitalist views.

andrew_bidlaw , 5 months ago

It's not even hard to do that. But having this idea, printing it in letters, completing it... How did they not have a keyboard burning under their fingers?