You Can't Eat Road Kill.

Published on February 25, 2005 By dharmagrl In Current Events

Kraft Foods has stopped manufacturing it's gummi 'Road Kill' candy because it might 'encourage children to be cruel to animals'. Link

Oh please. If eating candy shaped like flattened possums, skunks and rabbits is going to encourage kids to be cruel to critters, then what kind of behaviour does eating gummi worms encourage? Worm-icide? How about Swedish Fish? Have there been reported incidents of kids teasing or maiming their beta's or goldfish? In England there's a popular candy called 'Jelly Babies' - gummi little people in different flavors and colors. To the best of my knowledge, no-one has tried to eat a real baby after eating a gummi one.

Sometimes I think the whole world's gone completely mad....

Comments (Page 1)

NJforever

on Feb 25, 2005

"Sometimes I think the whole world's gone completely mad...."

Oh it has. I think this is rather silly as well, but why on Earth did they make Gummi Road Kill? That seems like the only thing madder than banning it.

Spc Nobody Special

on Feb 25, 2005

only sometimes?

That's why my kids are going to stay away from things like gummi road kill, and stick to non cruelty inducing foods life beef, pork, and chicken......................

historyishere

on Feb 25, 2005

I could really murder a box of swedish fish if I could find one....they seem to have been withdrawn from my neck of the woods.

greywar

on Feb 25, 2005

mmm... baby... the other white meat!

Spc Nobody Special

on Feb 25, 2005

the one that really drives me crazy is naugahide......do you know how many of those little naugas died to make your sofa?

ParaTed2k

on Feb 25, 2005

Funny, Funny!!!

It reminds me of those "candy cigarettes" they used to sell. The health police got to them because they were afraid bubblegum and hard candy, in the shape of a cigarette would lead us all down the tar and nicotine highway. I do remember blowing through the bubble gum ones to make the powdered sugar come out in a "puff of smoke", but I never remember actually lighting the things. ;~D

I guess the next thing on the PC chopping block will be animal crackers. You and I both know that if kids eat a cookie shaped like a giraffe, the next thing we know, they'll be demanding Giraffe Ka-bobs!!!! ;~D

Toblerone

on Feb 25, 2005

Kraft Foods has stopped manufacturing it's gummi 'Road Kill' candy because it might 'encourage children to be cruel to animals'.

Hmm, and I suppose eating actual meat teaches kids to be kind to animals....

Shovelheat

on Feb 25, 2005

I remember "Happy Days Snuff" circa 1975. It was a rasberry flavored dipping tobacoo for kids my age at the time (in '75 I was, gulp, 14). I can't fathom now how that was possible! It got me on the road to nicotine addiction, a dependence I indulged in for TWENTY THREE years before I quit at over a pack a day +. In retrospect, squashed gummi animals are nuthin'...

ParaTed2k

on Feb 25, 2005

I remember "Happy Days Snuff" circa 1975. It was a rasberry flavored dipping tobacoo for kids my age at the time (in '75 I was, gulp, 14).

Yeah, I can see where flavored and candied actual tobacco could lead to addiction, but c'mon, candy? ;~D

pseudosoldier

on Feb 25, 2005

1. You certainly can eat road kill. My MiL hit a deer, and then drove home. She and her new husband came back immediately in his truck, and someone had already scored the antlers off of Bambi. They did have venison for awhile...

2. Swedish Fish are okay, because they don't encourage cruelty to fish. They only encourage cruelty to Swedes, which is just fine.

3. They still have candy cigarettes, they just call them "candy sticks", and they still taste *nasty*. Guess you have to get used to a nasty taste if you continue down that road...

Gene Nash

on Feb 25, 2005

Gummi Worms are evil.

I was in Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago, minding my own business, when I slip on a gummi worm surreptitiously placed to be unseen. I nearly died! Oh the pain! I couldn't walk! I don't want my headstone to read, "Killed by a Gummi Worm."

Gummi Worms should die.

I do remember blowing through the bubble gum ones to make the powdered sugar come out in a "puff of smoke", but I never remember actually lighting the things.

That's what they were all about! I used to love candy cigarettes. They were a big fad at my Christian elementary school. Also "Big League Chew." Remember that? It was a pouch of bubble gum cut to resemble chewing tobacco.

And I've never smoked a cigarette or had nicotine in any other form in my entire life.

Which leads to a funny story told by Tom Arnold on Late Night with Conan O'Brien earlier in the week...

Tom resorted to nicotine gum to help him stop smoking. His good friend Arnold Schwarzenegger saw him taking the gum and asked to try it. Arnie liked it so much he grabbed a handful and shoved them in his mouth. A few hours later Tom gets a call from an enraged Arnold. (read in Ah-nold voice) "Damn you! I'm driving down the highway and I am hallucinating! You Son of a B..."

alison watkins

on Feb 26, 2005

For that matter, Easter is coming...what about eating the cadburry bunny's eggs??!!

NJforever

on Feb 26, 2005

For that matter, Easter is coming...what about eating the cadburry bunny's eggs??!!

The Cadburry Bunny? I thought it was called the Easter Bunny. And you can't eat them, it teaches disrespect of chickens!

alison watkins

on Feb 27, 2005

When will people realize that plants have feelings too?!

dynamaso

on Feb 27, 2005

This has to be one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. So, what will be next on the list? No more jelly snakes or gummi frogs? Or how about no more Rice Bubbles because Snap, Crackle and Pop could be misconstrued as a promiscuous gay elves?

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