Americans Care More About Candy Than Babies

Twitter Is Buzzing : Reese’s Candy Outrage

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Social media equals judgment porn.  People have been defrauded into thinking they were going to get to eat a real Christmas tree-shaped Reese’s Peanut Butter Tree.”  Check out today’s transcript for the rest….

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Mike:  Listen to this:

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The makers of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have no trouble persuading people to stuff their faces with chocolate-covered treats in circular form (or as pieces). Why bother, then, shaping those delicious morsels into Christmas trees — at the risk of failing miserably?

Maybe time will show it to be a shrewd marketing move; in the meantime, the confectioner’s alleged Peanut Butter Trees are drawing comparisons to “turds,” turning them into a subject of social media ridicule.

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Mike:  There you go, judgment porn on chocolate, peanut butter-laced steroids.  I’m thinking of that TV commercial that’s really funny, it’s cute, the one where the jar of peanut butter – no, that’s the Klondike Bar where the chocolate is going to clash with the ice cream.  And the wife goes to the husband: No, that’s not how they’re made.  There’s a Reese’s candy bar one that’s very similar: No, that’s not how they’re made.

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The company is apologizing one tweet at a time to consumers who are sharing images of misshapen candy trees with mocking comments.

“What part of this looks like a Christmas tree?” one person asked.

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Mike:  Social media equals judgment porn.  People have been defrauded into thinking they were going to get to eat a real Christmas tree-shaped Reese’s Peanut Butter Tree.  At the CNN site, there are all these people holding little trees going: It doesn’t look like a tree.  It’s a chocolate and peanut butter treat, and there’s hundreds upon thousands and thousands of these.

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Reese’s, which is owned by The Hershey Company, has a history of making seasonal candy . . .

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Mike:  Let me ask you a question, all you geniuses out there that are more outraged about this than you are about the killing going on inside abortion clinics every day.  Let me ask you a question: Does a Hershey’s Kiss actually look like a kiss?  What does it look like?  It looks more like – yeah, it looks like a turd.  That’s exactly what it looks like.  It just has some aluminum foil and a white twizzly thing coming out the top of it.  What does it look like?  What next?  Shudder the thought this advent season leading to Christmas that someone should make a Frosty the Snowman-shaped treated and have it not be corpulent enough.  [mocking] “Did you put Frosty on a diet?  Why is he so skinny?” tweeters and Facebookers will thunder.

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