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WhiteTara

(31,261 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:08 PM Mar 2016

People Are Really Angry About Whole Foods’ Pre-Peeled Oranges In Plastic Containers feed_manager_aut [View all]

Whole Foods has been forced to apologise after an image of its oranges provoked an angry reaction online.

Twitter user Nathalie Gordon ‎ @awlilnatty) posted a picture, below, of the supermarket chain’s pre-peeled fruit incased plastic containers.

She quipped: “If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so we didn’t need to waste so much plastic on them.”

The image quickly went viral – and now has more than 58,000 likes and the same number of retweets.

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People Are Really Angry About Whole Foods’ Pre-Peeled Oranges In Plastic Containers feed_manager_aut [View all] WhiteTara Mar 2016 OP

Really angry? Don't buy that stuff myself, but good grief. Hortensis Mar 2016 #1

I think people are happily mocking them all over the country.... Bluenorthwest Mar 2016 #3

I hate that shit ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #2

Some idiot is buying them, though. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #4

Lots of idiots are, even at the environmental (anti Fracking) event I was at last night ghostsinthemachine Mar 2016 #5

I went to try and pick up some of the Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #8

I remember when laundry detergent was powder and in bio-friendly boxes. valerief Mar 2016 #6

I get the detergent in the little pods Freddie Mar 2016 #9

Yes. I switched to pods. 840high Mar 2016 #10

I've used the pods, too, but I got to wondering why they have to be liquid. Why not powder in valerief Mar 2016 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author valerief Mar 2016 #11

Indeed they are. KamaAina Mar 2016 #7