Meanwhile in Crazyvillle: EuroRight Angry that Toblerones are Halal

[Bucky]

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/19/europe/toblerone-halal-boycott-scli-intl/


you say candy boxes; but what if they're really burkas for chocolate?!

Toblerone's halal certification outrages the far right
By Rob Picheta and Tara John, CNN
December 19, 2018

(CNN) — Members of Europe's far right have called for a mass boycott of Toblerone, after discovering that the popular triangular chocolate bar is halal-certified.

.... <von schnippenheimer> ...

Toblerone has not changed its recipe, but some online commentators have taken badly the news that its factory in Bern, Switzerland, achieved a halal certification in April -- with the federal spokesman of Germany's nationalist AfD party claiming it showed the "Islamization" of Europe.

"Islamization does not take place -- neither in Germany nor in Europe," the AfD's Jörg Meuthen wrote sarcastically on social media <probably while holding a comb under his nose> "It is therefore certainly pure coincidence that the depicted, known chocolate variety is now certified as 'HALAL.'"

...<Das Überßchnippage>....

"The certification did not result in any change to our beloved traditional Toblerone original recipe," <Toblerone-maker> Mondelēz said in a statement emailed to CNN. "Due to the inherent nature of Toblerone chocolate its production process essentially meets the halal criteria anyway."

and the streets ran brown with tragedy

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. wtf?

Anything to produce outrage, I guess.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Dear Idiots: there is such a thing as an export market.

Halal certification should expand the market for Toblerone significantly, bringing cash, not Muslims, to Europe.

[Bucky]

3. or does it just create a German mystique and lure of them in

Because next they will be wanting Halal marzipan candy and cuckoo clocks with Arabic numbers? It's a slippery schloopenhillenbergplatz.

[theaocp]

4. I think I ate enough Toblerone last night

to more than make up for the racists not buying anymore. It was awesome. I think I'll buy some more.

[ProudLib72]

5. Sounds like Tobleron is covering all their bases

Except for the RWNJ base who would prefer white chocolate anyway.

[Bucky]

7. Rechterfluegelwahnsinnighasserbigot is the term of art

But I don't know if any German goes so far as eating the lard like concoction called white chocolate. They do have that whole Kültur thing (or is it spelled Kultür? I was never very good with umläuts)

(on edit: the term of art is Rechterflügelwahnsinnighasserbigot, but apparently the DU editor program won't let me put umlauts in the subject line, so I had to go with the English translation equivalent)

[dembotoz]

6. friday fish fries are popular where i live...if i attend one does that mean i submit to the pope????

if you can increase your market share but putting on the label something you already do it would be grounds
for removal not to do it

[nuxvomica]

8. Looks like I'll have to show my support by buying some

Oh the burdens of being a progressive! I can buy Toblerone in stores, right? I don't have to check into a hotel room first?

[DFW]

9. This is worthy of Trump supporters

This like boycotting celery because it is kosher.