British grocery chain Waitrose apologized this week for a product description on one of its packaged Easter chocolates that some people deemed racially insensitive.
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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…”
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