Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag
Kmart: Australian supermarket pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag
Kmart removed the festive-themed bag from sale after a Jewish group raised the likeness to Hamas.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/5301538
Archived version: https://archive.ph/BayAw
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231109053322/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67361888
Oh. "Ham-mas" sounds like "Hamas." I was trying to figure out why Jews wanted Christmas food to be kosher.
68 0 ReplyFor fuck sake, it's a ham bag with Christmas trees on it, Kmart should have told them to pull their heads out of their arses.
39 0 ReplyIdk this was pretty funny, the corporate panic makes it funnier.
You just know there's some poor advertising peon getting yelled at rn, even though not one person in the office put the dots together.
33 0 ReplyReminds me of how the Danish (?) organic snacks company now known as Easis was still called Isis long after those letters became toxic.
Personally I found the prospect of terrorists making and selling organic muesli bars pretending to be healthy absolutely hilarious 😂
10 1 ReplyFew months ago no one would have noticed and now the entire stock will likely go into landfill.
Fucking ridiculous!
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"Hammy Holidays" would have been the obvious choice
23 0 ReplyThat took me 20 seconds.
15 0 Replysame here, roughly
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So Kmart is still a thing, who knew?
3 0 ReplyTotally different company to the US version.
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What it was supposed to mean? I can only read ’Merry Hamas’
3 4 ReplyJust like people rewrite the phrase as "Merry Xmas" or non-christ substitutes like cats in "Merry Kitmas", they were trying to make a ham-holiday. A Mass made of Ham. A Ham Mass/feast. Sadly, there is a war on so anything close to 'Hamas' is no longer suitable for mass-market humor.
3 0 Reply-mas
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I thought Jews had a sense of humor...
9 10 ReplyThe group wrote: "Although this is potentially funny (the AJA committee has tossed around some non-PC jokes) it's really not a good look.
"We suspect some product manager may cause the company some embarrassment.
"So we've politely written to Wesfarmers corporate suggesting the product be pulled."
5 0 Replysuggesting the product be pulled
lol
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