While the outrage was sufficient for Waitrose to pull the product, many feel it's an example of political correctness going too far.
Waitrose pulled their trio of chocolate ducklings from the shelves after they were accused of racism for labelling the darkest duck"ugly". Picture: Twitter.
The three ducklings are white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate, with some having reacted with outrage to the fact that while the first two are named “fluffy” and “crispy”, the dark chocolate one was named the “ugly” duckling. While the ducklings were considered racist by some on social media, others disagreed, with many of the comments since the pulling of the product seeing the outcry and the supermarket’s reaction as a case of outrage culture and political correctness going too far.
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