A British grocery chain apologized for a product description on one of its packaged Easter chocolates that some people deemed racially insensitive.
"We are very sorry for any upset caused by the name of this product, it was absolutely not our intention to cause any offence," the grocery chain said.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.British grocery chain Waitrose apologized this week for a product description on one of its packaged Easter chocolates that some people deemed racially insensitive.
The"Waitrose Trio of Easter Ducklings" is composed of milk-, white- and dark-chocolate ducklings that were labeled"Fluffy,""Crispy" and"Ugly," respectively, A Twitter user questioned why Waitrose, a major supermarket chain, had chosen to label the darkest duckling"Ugly." "Overheard women saying 'this is not right,'" the woman wrote on Twitter last month."I agree, doesn’t look good at all. Thousands of other options..."it would receive backlash:"Surely Waitrose knew that people would be offended by this?"
Waitrose apologized for the product description in a statement this week and said it had temporarily pulled the duckling product to redesign the package label.
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