Posted on 10/22/2014 8:41:15 PM PDT by Nachum
PARIS — The labels on Swiss mini-cream containers tend toward the pastoral and cuddly, with pleasant images of Alpine landscapes and locomotives, or dogs and cats. So it was something of a shock to one consumer at a Swiss train station to find the face of Hitler staring back at him when he reached to lighten his morning coffee.
Migros, a Swiss retail giant, said it did not know exactly how the image came to be on the label. But it offered its apologies Wednesday for the “unforgivable incident” and withdrew about 2,000 containers, some of which also featured the face of Mussolini, from about 100 cafes in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
Tristan Cerf, a spokesman for Migros, said by telephone from Lausanne on Wednesday that the company had been horrified by the failure of its internal controls to detect the images on its cream containers.
He said the problem had come to Migros’s attention after a customer drinking coffee at the Baden train station was startled by the discovery and sent a photo of the label to the newspaper 20 Minutes.
In coffee-loving Switzerland, labels from the mini-cream containers are cult collectibles, and producers often seek new and inventive ways to enhance their appeal.
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Heil creamer!
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Sounds good for a country that lost badly to Germany during WWII, such as France or Poland.
The guy on the right is especially frightening.
But don’t drink too much or you start thinking about invading Poland.
Blitzkream.
Switzerland is a very practical nation regarding competing ideologies, particularly in wartime, because it has had to be. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some ugly secrets that are discovered and even continue to survive, or that there aren’t people who still harbor shocking sentiments.
Where’s the OBAMA wine??? ;)
Lebenskreme...
Zilchmilch?
That'll be next harvest.
Why is it written ‘Brezhnev’ in Cyrillic under Jimmah photo?
This is either some kind of a strange corporate prank, or it raises serious food safety concerns.
Because Carter’s image has been shopped, of course.
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