A Stitch in Haste

..and I did not speak out because I was not a candy cigarette eater."

Then they came for the candy roadkill...

Animal rights activists are disgusted by a new candy from Kraft Foods Inc. that's shaped like critters run over by cars - complete with tire treads.

The fruity-flavored Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy -- in shapes of partly flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels -- fosters cruelty toward animals, according to the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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"If you look across the Gummi category we certainly have many products that are offbeat, and that's what we were doing in this case," [a Kraft official] said. "We didn't mean to offend anyone."

Look on the bright side -- there's probably not much salt in gummi roadkill.

On the other hand, what about the sodium content, or the animal-rights outrage, over this.

POST SCRIPT: When I say "candy cigarettes" I mean the old, literal, candy cigarrettes (i.e., the sugar sticks in a tobacco-looking package with some red food coloring on one end). I do not mean candy-flavored cigarettes, which are a hot topic (no pun intended) in Minnesota right now.

More thoughts at Dean's World.

FUN FACT: "Gummi" -- as in "Gummi Bears" -- is simply the German word for "rubber" (cf., its English cognate, "gum").

UPDATE: I just received a Wall Street Journal email alert (no link, sorry) reporting that Kraft has decided to discontinue the candy. The words "grow up" come to mind, as do "business opportunity." Story now available here.

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