I have no idea and that is a very good question.

Did you know that Easter is named after the pagan Goddess, Oestre, a fertility goddess that gives her name to Oestrogen, the female hormone. Her symbols are eggs, being a fertility goddess, and the hare. Germans have the Easter hare and not the bunny... I feel like I say all this every Easter.

No ducks though.

i don't really agree with her because calling this "racist" is a joke :skull: i just can understand why someone could feel weird about the darkest of three different colored ducks being called ugly

new life....spring lambs, ducks, bunnies....resurrection.:hee:

Well if someone did feel like that, they need a hug and be told not to be so daft.

ERM dark chocolate is the best kind of chocolate :oh:

Of course. That's why the ducks.

Oooo no, lovely Belgian milk chocolate. You can have all my dark choc.

Dark chocolate is lovely wtf

White chocolate is the worst... it’s just sickly and tastes like sugary gunk

Well Montblanc and Elliot, I have to inform you that you're both wrong. Milk chocolate is the best, all day long. And my decision is final on this.........

Agree about the white chocolate though. Urgghhhh.....

Milk chocolate is far superior to any other. However, dark chocolate beats white for me usually. Mind, I do sometimes get random cravings for bourneville bars. I can't eat much dark or white without feeling sickly. I can eat family sized bars of milk in one sitting and feel fine (though my hips wouldn't thank me for it) :laugh:

What if its bill was circumcised though.

Ducks lay eggs? :smug:

Its bill? What do you think circumcision is TS...?

Eggs. Ha! Get out of here with your common sense...

No this isn’t racist :skull: And £8 for that is ridiculous :oh:

Also, dark chocolate is grim :/

So Team Livia in all aspects here :hugesmile: (Edit: TiBB’s Livia, that is)

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I'm not saying it is intentionally racist, but it is unfortunate.
What if a black kid got those ducks for Easter and asked: why the dark one is ugly?
There's no need for that. The naming was stupid. Two named after something neutral/positive and one ugly.

From what I remember from my church-going childhood, only lambs and eggs are associated with Easter. Lamb is a symbol of Jesus Christ and eggs new life.
The rest is odd. But it goes for Christmas too when Lindt has a chocolate bear among other things. wtf?

tbh companies should start saying "we're sorry you feel that way" and leave it at that.

If the kid got those ducks and asked, why is the dark one ugly? They could tell him that actually, the ugly one turns out to be the best one of all...

Or, they could tell him that it's just CHOCOLATE, stop making a racist issue where none was intended.

Are there any black members on this thread? I'd be interested to know their take on this.

Nah, the names given to those ducks were stupid and that's that on that.

Me too actually. Was I wrong in thinking the person who complained was white? To me it seems stupid, it's just chocolate, I can't even imagine why it would even enter someones head to equate dark chocolate to black people, to me that's more offensive. Actually as a white person I'm offended because that means I'm the white chocolate and that's clearly the worst one :oh:

I agree, I thought the whole point was that not many people choose to buy dark chocolate hence the reason this duck being the ugly one.

However, another thing that puzzles me is that people are paid a lot of money to come up with new ideas for products that should not cause any offence. So how in the hell did something like this manage to slip by?

I agree with this maybe we should just ban anything brown or black ffs,it's ridiculous ,its dark chocolate and they all have the same faces ,some people are just crazy:huh::crazy: