“Imagine being offended by gingerbread": Woolies shopper slammed online
A Woolies customer has come under fire after pointing out a "woke" change in the iconic Christmas cookie.
The shopper took to Reddit to slam the Woolworths Bakery for renaming the festive packs of cookies to Gingerbread People, rather than Gingerbread Men.
“Woolworths has renamed their biscuits Gingerbread ‘people’,” they wrote in the forum, with a picture of the new label.
“Apparently Gingerbread ‘man’ isn’t woke enough.”
Instead of people agreeing, many thought he was a weir-dough (pun intended), and said that it was “no big deal”.
“I’m trying really hard but too busy caring about my electricity bill doubling in the last year to have energy left over for gingerbread people,” one wrote.
“Imagine being offended by gingerbread," another commented.
“Seriously? Like if you wanted some gingerbread, you wouldn’t buy them because they’re called people?" a third wrote.
“Once again confirming that anyone that actually uses the word ‘woke’ is a pathetic little manbaby," a fourth slammed.
Others agreed that it was strange to see people get annoyed about a name change.
“And you got so offended you came to Reddit to post about it. Who is the d***head here them or you?”
“God I love watching the snowflakes melt over this," responded another.
There were only a few people who agreed with the shopper, and said that the supermarket giant had gone too far.
“At some point soon I’m just not going to care about offending people. If you can’t handle a biscuit with man in the name, simply grab a box of tissues and retreat to your safe space,” wrote one user.
“Jesus Christ. It’s a f***ing biscuit vaguely shaped like a human. Do we need to make a biscuit gender neutral so we don’t offend people?” added another.
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