Kraft Trolli Road Kill Gummi Candy is Dead
Published February 28, 2005
PETA takes another scalp — even though this one's in the inert, lifeless form of a gummi snack.
Kraft's Trolli Road Kill Gummi candy (above) — shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels, complete with tire treads — is no more.
New Jersey animal-rights activists said the candy encouraged children to be cruel to animals, and threatened petition drives, boycotts and letter-writing campaigns unless production was halted immediately.
Kraft complied and plans to stop production and then sell off its remaining inventory.
The candy hit store shelves across the U.S. last summer.
I'm reminded of something a Louisiana lawyer once told me, in passing: "You never see a dead animal on the road in Cajun country."
Think about it.
Full disclosure: no animal products were used in the creation of this post.
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I beg to differ. I'd say they havent gone far enough.
Last I heard, P.diddy bought some penguins to swim in his pool for one of his parties.
Actually I think the whole roadkill candy thing was pretty sick. There's no problem making gummy animals, but why do they have to be run over? It's completely uncalled for and not funny at all
If you want kids not to be kept in an "antiseptic world" then make them into gummy dicks or something equally rude, but not flattened animals. If anyone has actually ever seen a dead animal on a road I doubt they would be amused, unless they were some 11 year old boy pointing and laughing. That sot of stuff would make me feel sick before even buying the product.
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I think the PETA people have gone too far. They sound so pretentious here.
They say it is teaching our kids, "to go out and kill animals". That is so full of @#$^@$^&#$!!!!! When is someone going to stop these people.
I think the candy sends the message that "Shit happens". Kids can learn from that and the ones that are kept from it in an antiseptic world grow up to be afraid of everything.
I think these PETA people need to get their heads screwed back on straight.
this is one of the worst examples of someone giving in to a busy body.
I don't really believe in giving kids candy and sugar but I think PETA is disgusting.
They would probably take their pets from a burning house before their own children.