Waitrose pulls the "racist" Easter ducklings & # 39; chocolate sale

Waitrose apologized for selling "racist chocolate" Easter ducklings after receiving complaints about the dark brown duck labeled "ugly".

One customer shared an image of the £ 8 trio, which included milk chocolate and white chocolate ducklings named "crispy" and "fluffy", implying that he was racist.

& # 39; Crispy, Fluffy & Ugly – a trio of Easter ducklings at #Waitrose. Moche is black on the right. Hearing the women say "it's not okay," I agree that it does not look good. Thousands of other options … why #ugly ????? & # 39;

One customer shared a picture of the £ 8 trio, which included white chocolate and milk chocolate ducklings, named "crispy" and "fluffy", and implied that he was racist.

A Twitter user said she heard women say "it is not fair" and agreed with them.

Waitrose later announced that she had apologized for the choice of name and had temporarily withdrawn the proceeds from the sale because he had redesigned the packaging with new labeling.

Chocolates are now on sale again in stores and online.

Many Twitter users reacted angrily to the decision, suggesting that the high-end supermarket had given way to excessive political correctness.

The labels for the ducklings are believed to come from the song The Ugly Duckling, the fairy tale of the Danish poet and writer Hans Christian Andersen.

The song tells the story of a little brown duck who makes fun of others.

Later he realized that he was not a duck when he got rid of his "muddy and brown" feathers and became a white swan.

A spokesman for Waitrose said, "We are really sorry for any vexation caused by the name of this product. Our intention was absolutely not to cause offenses.

"We removed the product from the sale several weeks ago at the same time we changed the labeling and our ducklings are now on sale again."

Waitrose then apologized for choosing the name and temporarily withdrew the proceeds from the sale because he redesigned the packaging with new labeling (photo).