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Jules she/her 5d ago

No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.

No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.

https://monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-cadbury-hasnt-removed-easter-from

#UKFarRight #Islamophobia

No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs

Chocolate eggs have never been consistently labelled with the word ‘Easter’, so why does this claim keep resurfacing?

Monk Debunks: Beyond the narrative

Jules she/her 5d ago

It's pathetic really. Like wouldn't it be nice if we, in the UK, as a culture, were excited when new ideas and traditions come in instead of being scared and angry? Instead of inventing "You can't say Easter on eggs anymore" wouldn't it be nice if we went "Hey, these people have brought a festival where you can suddenly get really nice dates in pretty boxes and there are lovely shared suppers after dusk?"

It's like when the UK women's team did so well in the World Cup, and a bunch of miserable old gits started mithering on about how women's football wasn't real football. And meanwhile my Dad was delighted that now there was twice as much football on TV as there used to be. Not only was he not making a nuisance of himself whingeing on Facebook, he was actually happier. Almost like actually embracing something a bit new and a bit different is actually a nicer way to live.

Jules she/her 5d ago

But the rightwing media does love telling people anything new and different is a threat. I know why they do it of course, it's to stop us paying attention to that fact we're getting dragged into a stupid war to appease a paedophile with dementia, but I wish people didn't fall for it so easily.

Jules she/her 5d ago

It's like the uproar about Tesco replacing barcodes with QR codes, as if a change to the details of the stock management system used by a supermarket has any impact whatsoever on the lives of anyone who doesn't work in Tesco's logistics department. But suddenly some rightwing hack vomits up a thinkpiece about how QR codes are woke and suddenly everyone's waxing nostalgic about how the play of sunlight on the black and white stripes of a barcode takes them back to happy childhood afternoons shopping for salad cream and pickled eggs with their dear departed grandmother.

Jules she/her 5d ago

But yes, in conclusion everyone's life would be better if we understood that everything new isn't a threat.

Except with software. Then it probably is.

Sebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago

@afewbugs There's an uproar about that..? Do you have a link please? I know one of the people behind the new labels and I think he might be interested...

@afewbugs I remember a while back that there was similar fuss because sainsbury’s and a few others switched to a different sort of packaging for minced beef. (Softer plastic so presumably less waste.)

People were calling it disgusting and unnatural. Idk, if you’re uncomfortable with meat I can sympathise but I don’t think it’s the packaging to blame here.

jamesb (MW1CGG)4d ago

@benjamineskola
That one is actually a bad thing. It completely fucks the texture of the meat up and it's harder to cook the way everyone's used to. I don't normally whinge about these things but I'm glad Tesco still do it in non vac pack packaging.
@afewbugs

@jamesb yeah I do actually think it’s worse in that regard.

I just found the way the online complaints were phrased quite amusing

jamesb (MW1CGG)4d ago

@benjamineskola
Telling the complainers to go to their local Halal butcher instead because the meat is better quality is always fun if you have some spare popcorn.
@afewbugs

Charles Castleberry 5d ago

@afewbugs 😂😂

@afewbugs That would absolutely play havoc with the livelihood of barcode battler players

Pseudo Nym 4d ago

@bovaz @afewbugs

Is barcode battler still "a thing"?

@pseudonym @afewbugs I was playing it with a friend a few months back

BeeCycling 4d ago

@afewbugs Oh good grief, people just look for stuff to be annoyed about.

Steph (crisis version)5d ago

@afewbugs That's exactly how my dad feels about the women's football. "Oh, good, more football on telly." Lovely to hear your dad's the same.

Jules she/her 5d ago

@astronomerritt during half time he once accidentally made himself a cup of tea using one of the quince teabags I left at theirs, said "This is quite good actually" and went back to the match with it, and I sat there thinking "This is the future liberals want"

Steph (crisis version)5d ago

@afewbugs Funny how much nicer life is for people who can simply accept change and difference, isn't it?

@astronomerritt @afewbugs My dad's that way too in many things and I thank my lucky stars.

queer as in fuck your borders 5d ago

@afewbugs I once had a train seat across from a table of white middle aged men who were chatting loudly and I was like "aw man here we go" but they got talking about women's football and all agreed that they preferred it to the men's because the quality of play was so much higher.

It's nice when people don't live down to stereotypes. :)

Jules she/her 5d ago

@bright_helpings I had a similar experience in a previous job, working in an office of male engineers. One of them got talking about how he'd picked his wife up after a concert at the weekend, and they had agreed to meet in a pub near the venue. He got there early and only then realised the pub was a gay bar. So he said he started worrying that gay men would see him on his own and flirt with him. And I was sitting there dreading what was coming next.

Jules she/her 5d ago

@bright_helpings but then he said that no one hit on him, and after a while he started feeling really self conscious and worrying he was ugly because no one had. So he started smiling at random men, and by the time his wife turned up one had come over and chatted to him so he felt better 😂

Mx. Eddie R 5d ago

@afewbugs @bright_helpings
Heh, that's a little bit adorable!

Mx. Eddie R 5d ago

@bright_helpings @afewbugs
I once worked on a project for live poker games.
What made the chat feature worthwhile was the Ladies event. The play was hot and the live chat was a lot of fun, we drove a bunch of attention that the women's tables don't usually get, and people really enjoyed it.
(Aside, one white dude pro gambler entered anticipating an easy win. Half the chat for the first couple hands was him being mocked, then he got spanked and busted out. Twice.).

Я⊛ḶḶ model ☭5d ago

@bright_helpings @afewbugs

they were still talking too loudly.

BeeCycling 4d ago

@bright_helpings @afewbugs Back in January I was getting my bathroom refitted and at one point I could hear two of the electricians talking about bread, and one was saying how much he loved seeded breads, with a good nutty flavour to them, while the other talked about his sister teaching him how to make sourdough bread - which he said was a bit of a faff, but well worth the trouble. Just a couple of northern, working-class tradesmen, who surely don't want any of that fancy woke bread. 😉

queer as in fuck your borders 4d ago

@beecycling Aw that's lovely. And he's so right about how much better seeded bread is. :) @afewbugs

Phil Thane ✅4d ago

@beecycling @bright_helpings @afewbugs Always good to upend people's expectations. As a northern-born working class lad I got a leg up by going to teacher training college and became a Design & Tech teacher. Working in a school 'darn sarf' I was asked by a surprised snooty colleague why I was attending a school play when I was a 'woodwork' teacher. Because I like drama? A year later the next school play was a sci fi —and I wrote it.

Tubemeister 5d ago

@afewbugs TIL mithering. I like it.

But yes that. It’s an extra thing. You might like it. Or not, then simply keep watching the old thing that nobody took away.

Charles Castleberry 5d ago

@afewbugs I had a boss who was a huge women’s ‘soccer’ fan, and preferred it to the men’s.

“Well, they’re easier on the eyes, aren’t they?” he said.

I felt the reverse, of course, but I couldn’t really argue the principle involved. 😇