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Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by memfree@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/5301538

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For fuck sake, it's a ham bag with Christmas trees on it, Kmart should have told them to pull their heads out of their arses.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Idk this was pretty funny, the corporate panic makes it funnier.

You just know there's some poor advertising peon getting yelled at rn, even though not one person in the office put the dots together.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Reminds me of how the Danish (?) organic snacks company now known as Easis was still called Isis long after those letters became toxic.

Personally I found the prospect of terrorists making and selling organic muesli bars pretending to be healthy absolutely hilarious 😂

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

long after those letters became toxic

What's toxic about an egyptian goddess? 😜 (to be fair, the terrorist group is called IS, and calling it ISIS was always a bit weird)

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well Danish news first called it ISIS, then ISIL and then IS. Now they usually use the whole name Islamic State, but in Danish.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They pretended to be healthy? Wanna bet they’re awful?

Maybe they should mail them to terrorists. You know. As a weapon against morale

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're actually very tasty. Tons of sugar in them to achieve that, though.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Why am I not surprised?

Oh well. Guess weird mailing those rice cake thingies that taste like styrofoam

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

My friends had a CI wear a wire for a fucking weed sale, but they were watching Archer at the time he was there to pick up. Led to some hilarious questions from idiot cops.

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Few months ago no one would have noticed and now the entire stock will likely go into landfill.

Fucking ridiculous!