So Hershey's recently put out a new product - it's a baggie of breath-mints. The problem is that it looks like baggies used to carry cocaine.
There has been some outrage over this product due to it's similarity to drug packaging and news sites are showing pictures comparing the two. I guess this is problematic because a child who is used to having breath mints in a little blue baggie might stumble upon a baggie of llello, eat it, and suffer harm or die.
As some have already pointed out, there is a bigger issue here: where the hell is this situation going to take place? What child lives in a environment where they could find a little blue baggie of blow? People don't usually misplace large bags of drugs, so any parent who is worried that after a all-night binger their kid will consume the rest of their drugs probably has more to worry about than Hershey's packaging.
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This is really funny. Those two bags look remarkably similar, but I do think that cocaine and breathmints are at least shaped differently, right? Isn't concain a powder? Unless they are making powdery breath mints, or maybe you put the bag of mints in your pocket and they got smashed, I don't think anyone would make that mistake.
It would be really funny if this was someone at Hershey's idea of an inside joke, though.
Most likely the outrage is due to:
1). TV news sensationalism -- kids + drugs = GREAT NEWS!
2). sloooooooow news day.
OH NOES!!! What about all the drug addicts who might be dooped into buying a bag of crushed mint dust and accidentally consume it!?!?
But seriously, I could imagine some stupid person trying that and getting shot over it. By the way, has anyone noticed the rise in rapper deaths recently? ...I'm just sayin', Hersheys, I'm just sayin'...
i seewiously have teews in my eyes wight now fwum laughing! Way to go!
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