Conservatives Are Getting Mad at Cadbury For Removing “Easter” From Their Products. One Problem: It’s Not True

Time for today’s perfect encapsulation of American conservatisim, except that this time it comes from the UK…

You know Fox News has convinced an entire generation of right-leaning Americans to get pissed off about stupid things like a town hanging a menorah next to a Christmas tree, or kids not saying the words “under god” in the pledge of allegiance, or a black man having the audacity to kneel at a football game? And you know, over the years, that hypnotic insanity has morphed into believing that students who speak out after school shootings are crisis actors, or that Obama was going to stage a military invasion of Texas?

Well, there’s a new “controversy” that actually feels kinda old-school. It’s Fox Newsy, but back before we knew that Fox News had turned a segment of our country into fascist monsters. This particular controversy, in fact, is almost heartwarming, and—you won’t believe this—it comes from Britain!

A few British conservatives seem to believe that Cadbury UK has succumbed to the pressure of those damn liberals, and is no longer using the word “Easter” on their products.

This apparently got started with a 2016 story in one of their weird tabloids, and now it resurfaces every year. (It even made it to Australia this year.) It’s also—spoiler alert—completely untrue. But that doesn’t matter, because boy are they pissed! And they’re letting Cadbury know about it!

At this time of year please spare a thought for the Cadbury social media team. pic.twitter.com/rEvEy6s9Rg

— Jamie Ross (@JamieRoss7) March 27, 2018

Here are some individual tweets just from the last month, and please note that unfortunately, some of them are from Americans:

@CadburyUK@Nestle@GalaxyChocolate@thorntonschocs Won’t be buying any of your EASTER Eggs this year. U ignorant stupid companies have removed the work EASTER from the boxes. It’s a Christian country, stop giving in to foreigners who don’t like that.

— JAMES VINCENT (@thisisjmx) March 27, 2018

@CadburyUK and @Nestle any reason why you’ve took the word Easter of your eggs?

— karl price (@price_18) March 11, 2018

@CadburyUK as a Christian I find it highly offensive that you would change the name of an Easter egg incase of offending other religions and in doing so taking away the meaning behind the egg and the holiday. I’m sorry but there would be no such holiday without Christianity.

— Scarlett Milne (@scarmilnex) March 5, 2018

@CadburyUK Hey cadbury, why are you pandering to the leftie liberal democrats and removing the words Easter and egg from your packaging?! Won’t buy them until you put them back.

— Sam Gannaway (@samganners) March 27, 2018

@CadburyUK are you ok with selling eggs at Easter but not having Easter on your packaging ? Just curious about your logic ?

— Nöble (@chrisnoble8380) March 5, 2018

@CadburyUK@cadbury@Nestle Please do not remove the word EASTER from your eggs to pander to the political correct brigade. As from now I will never buy your products again if you do !

— carol hargreaves (@carolanntincan) March 3, 2018

The poor SOB who runs the Cadbury Twitter account has had to respond to a few of these tweets, and it really seems tedious:

Actually, we’ve used the word Easter in Marketing & Communications for over 100yrs & continue to do so in our 2018 Easter range. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/BZd2rN1AoW

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) February 19, 2018

We’ve used the word Easter in Marketing & Communications for over 100yrs & continue to do so in our 2018 Easter range. We often update packaging to ensure we keep things exciting. This year we’ve had a spring season makeover, & the word Easter is displayed more prominently 🙂 pic.twitter.com/cayUsjrRRv

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) February 19, 2018

Hi Mike! We’ve used the word Easter in Marketing and communications for over 100 years and still do. Hope this helps! pic.twitter.com/0GNfgQEwrc

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) February 12, 2018

Like last year we don’t have a policy to remove the word ‘Easter’, it was mentioned on the back of the pack and even embossed on the 1/2

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) July 21, 2017

It’s not true to claim we’ve removed ‘Easter’ from our Easter eggs, it’s clearly stated on back of the pack & embossed on some of..1/2

— Cadbury UK (@CadburyUK) April 14, 2017

It must suck having a job that includes a lot of time spent answering idiots who will probably ignore you anyway because they like outrage more than facts.

Some conservatives have figured it out, though, and they’re delighted:

@CadburyUK Well done to Cadburys for advertising ‘Easter’ in these politically correct times it’s refreshing to see some Great British values restored

— 🙂 (@V3nners) March 4, 2018

As Paste’s Jake Weindling said when I ambushed him with this story just moments ago, “the word snowflake is the biggest psychological projection of all time.”