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Hershey product looks like drugs
#7925221 - 01/24/08 05:16 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/companies/hershey_lookalike.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008012418
Candy company agrees to stop production of mints that police say resemble street drugs.
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) -- The Hershey Co. is halting production of Ice Breakers Pacs in response to criticism that the mints look too much like illegal street drugs, the company's president and chief executive officer said Thursday.
Hershey (HSY, Fortune 500) CEO David J. West disclosed the decision during a conference call about the company's newly released fourth-quarter earnings report.
Ice Breakers Pacs, which first hit store shelves in November, are nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside. The pouches come in blue or orange and bear the Ice Breakers logo.
Members of Philadelphia's police narcotics squad said the mints closely resemble tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell powdered street drugs. They charged that the consequences could be serious if, for example, a child familiar with the mints found a package of cocaine.
"Some community and law-enforcement leaders have expressed concern" about the shape of pouch and the Xylitol sweetener inside, and about the possibility of the mints being mistaken for illegal substances, West said.
"We are sensitive to these viewpoints and thus have made the decision that we will no longer manufacture Ice Breakers Pacs," he said.
Ice Breakers Pacs remain on store shelves but are expected to be sold out early this year and no more are being made, West said. Kirk Saville, a company spokesman, said they had been distributed nationally on a limited basis.
Hershey has said the mints were not intended to resemble anything, and West said consumers who tested and purchased the product liked it.
Linda Wagner, a narcotics officer with the Philadelphia police whose daughter died of a heroin overdose in 2001, had protested the product in letters to both company and government officials. She said she was pleased by Hershey's decision but questioned why it took so long.
"I will not buy a Hershey's product" again, she said. "I think they were really irresponsible" in marketing the product.
Bill Katzel, a community activist who lives near Tucson, Ariz., and worked with Wagner in fighting Ice Breakers Pacs, said the product remains widely available at stores near him.
"A better solution would have been a total recall of this product," said Katzel, a retired medical administrator for the federal government.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: dwtk]
#7925239 - 01/24/08 05:19 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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I'm sure they'll sell out rapidly with this tasty bit of publicity.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: ArthurDent42]
#7925380 - 01/24/08 05:38 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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I remember this story:
Hershey's Drug Mints
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs *DELETED* [Re: Robo]
#7925427 - 01/24/08 05:44 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: Chemy]
#7925435 - 01/24/08 05:45 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Yeah, I know it is. I'm just saying I remember the original story from a couple months back.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: dwtk]
#7925436 - 01/24/08 05:46 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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I have been saying this since I first saw them, a few of my friends thought I had bags of coke. Damn, I just figured out how to get to the rest of the smilies and theres a helluva lot of them.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: justthatguy07]
#7925449 - 01/24/08 05:48 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
justthatguy07 said: I have been saying this since I first saw them
I haven't seen them once since they started making a big deal about them a couple months ago, maybe they don't sell them in my area...
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: Chemy]
#7926045 - 01/24/08 07:38 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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With this kind of mentality, I wonder if they'll try to make Altoids change the shape of their mints. After all, they do resemble extacy. I mean, if I were a little kid, I wouldnt spit out something I found on the ground that tasted like ass and make my mouth numb. 
"I will not buy a Hershey's product" Good, maybe your kid will just be dumb, isntead of a dumb fatass.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: Chemy]
#7926099 - 01/24/08 07:44 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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It's wrong for a candy company to sell candy that comes in packaging that resembles packaging that of an illicit substance, but it is totally fine for another company to sell candy 'sticks' that resemble cigarettes to kids? A big, 'WTF?'
Remember these from the ice cream truck as a kid?
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: Grylls]
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: Robo]
#7927464 - 01/24/08 11:11 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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I am never buying any baking soda product ever again because it's resemblance of street drugs. I think we should recall all of them because my child was irresponsible and I don't know who to blame her drug problem on.
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Re: Hershey product looks like drugs [Re: wireless]
#7927479 - 01/24/08 11:15 PM (16 years, 8 days ago) |
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They don't actually look much like drugs, anyway.
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Sigh... why must we live amongst such idiots?
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