HARIBO STOPS SCANDINAVIAN SALES OF 'RACIST' SWEETS

Brietbart/AFP ^ | Jan 17, 2014 | staff

[bkopto]

German sweet maker Haribo said Friday it had stopped selling some of its liquorice sweets in Sweden and Denmark because certain consumers considered them racist.

The sweets, part of the Skipper Mix salty blend which has been on the market for years, will no longer feature the controversial figures in the future in both Scandinavian countries.

Haribo said it had taken into account the critical comments made over the Internet in recent weeks.

"We decided that we could keep the product while removing the parts that certain consumers found offensive," Haribo Sweden head Ola Dagliden told AFP.

The offending sweets are in the shape of ethnic masks or facial representations that resemble primitive African, Asian or Native American art.

They depicted what "a sailor who travelled the world" in days would have brought home in days gone by, Dagliden said.

"It wasn't something we saw as having negative connotations."

A picture of the sweets was removed from Haribo's Swedish website on Friday afternoon, AFP discovered.

Other allegedly racist depictions of African and Asian people have sparked a heated debate in Sweden in the last few years.

[Moltke]

They probably didn’t dare reset the password - since it’s computer-generated, it could as well have turned out to be “black ho.” Just imagine the wailing then...

[SECURE AMERICA]

Some people just need to grow up.........

[Mike Darancette]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D-13V7Zqwk

Creepy

[DuncanWaring]

What to do about the “Chocolate City”?

[OldNewYork]

I never knew there were more verses. If the puppet sang it operatically in German, it would have been positively Wagnerian. So that’s another thing for the World Union of Bears to look into, right after addressing the exploitation inherent in gummi bears, inspired by what’s happening to the skipper mix.