Offended by coconut ice

[Callmejudith]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6719357/amp/Chocolate-company-slammed-making-flavours-dont-transgender-people-account.html?fbclid=IwAR3ohwt729R6y4muhzLy2sX-Z6y3BGUZSmffyyEUHVg8gkZBoYpJfp5Mqm8

I can't even....

If I have a blue one is my prize that I become a boy?

What's the marketing gimmick?

Unlike, say, gendered kinder eggs, where blue is marketed towards boys, and pink to girls - these are not. You get what you're given - a surprise. Which means boys/men eating pink chocolate and girls/women eating blue. And non-binaries sitting in a corner sulking, not getting any chocolate.

As I mentioned upthread, funds from sales go to Plunket, NZ's biggest children's charity.

Nigella is the face of Whittaker's. She comes out every few months and does a new ad.

Me again, sorry...

To be fair, I don't think trans will have an issue with these chocolate bars.

Trans love stereotypes! They're all about a good, old-fashioned stereotype - they live and breathe them (hence their flag ). If they could only free themselves from stereotypes, they'd probably be a lot happier.

It's the rainbow / non-binary / fluids who are up in arms.

I am gagging for some coconut ice just now.

Let me get this right - you open the bar and the one you get determines your gender identity? We could give them to midwives instead of, well, their eyes.

I'm more interested in the motivations of the Mail for picking up this seemingly daft, PC gone mad, story from across the world. Are they just shit-stirring? Or is it bolstering their current, fairly intelligent, take on trans issues? Who's the target audience? What editorial decisions led to publication? Was there anything beyond "Hur, hur, look at the snowflakes"?

Buy now i just want to eat one. Any colour will do!

Good grief, I was looking at the new Whittaker bar in the Supermarket yesterday, thinking wistfully, I love Coconut ice, should I buy a block but sternly told myself, I do not need Chocolate today. Now I feel like buying half a dozen on principle! They are an ethical company, their chocolate is fantastic and they are supporting Plunket which is great. Some people just need to get over themselves, please, please, Whittaker's do not apologise to anybody.
I saw a by line on Breakfast (morning TV show) which said are you offended by the gender Whitakers chocolate bar and thought What, now I know.

Doesn't coconut ice count as one of your 5 a day?

Igneococcus - is that the chocolate with peanut butter centres?

I cannot believe this is a real thing - it reads like the broadest of parody. It’s so unbelievably stupid - aren’t the complainers even a little bit embarrassed at making such fools of themselves in public? No. Don’t answer that.

So the issue is the superspecial extra po-faced members of the Genderist religion that call themselves 'Non binary' are having a tantrum because they want a confectionary in more than two colours? Is this for realisies? That is surely too pathetically silly to be true?

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Just slammed my head into the wall there.

Is coconut ice chocolate? I thought it was the sugar/condensed milk/coconut stuff?

That's terrible, it's not coconut ice at all it's white chocolate. White chocolate is only fit for feeding to under-5s.

Hm, yes - I could probably manage to eat it, but it's not coconut ice.

I'm not sure I've actually had any since the homemade pink and white slabs made by elderly ladies for sale at church Xmas and summer fayres. Thinking about it is in danger of triggering a Proustian response. Or possibly a Pavlovian one.

Coconut ice was one of the very first things that I ever made, along with peppermint creams - which must have been disgusting, because I remember rolling the paste around in my hands for aaaages to get it properly round before Rebecca Cartwright was allowed to squish them down with the back of a fork (Rebecca Cartwright being the only one deemed competent enough to be armed with a weapon at our Sunday School)

If anyone from a confectionary company happens to be reading, now would seem to be the ideal time to bring back the Fry's 5-centre chocolate cream. A rainbow hidden in ever bar! (I seem to remember they were a bit disappointing, only the peppermint cream was worth eating)

Fry's Five Centre was orange, raspberry, lime, strawberry, and pineapple.

They were horrible. The peppermint bar was just about bearable in an emergency.

I remember Fry’s Five Boys.

Who do I complain to?

Coconut Ice is revolting. Dessicated coconut is the devil's dandruff.

Weezol - I am a with you on that

I don't think I've ever had Coconut Ice.

But I'll boycott it from now on, no danger. The Woke Stasi has spoken and who am I to stand against that?

If confectionary does not centre transgender people, then it deserves to go out of business.

The article may seem silly but there is a worrying trend. There was one a while back (DM too I think) about "oh those nutty trans, what will they think of next" complaining about parents' parking bays at a supermarket being labelled with those "mum & kid" signs.

That's called sexist stereotyping. Feminists have been campaigning against that sort of thing for decades.

The TRAs lump us in with the nutjob right and the nutjob right lump us in with the TRAs.