HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it.
Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.
For example, Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.
I had to look up the egg/football in question:
https://www.hersheyland.com/products/reeses-milk-chocolate-peanut-butter-football-1-2-oz.html
Yeah, I could see someone being upset. Imagine planning a Super Bowl party and putting out a platter of egg shaped things instead of little footballs.
A reply from the review section a year ago…
so just a corporate non-answer, great.
Do you think a better answer was deserved?
Wow, yeah, even the “out of package” picture shows the design
This sites blocked outside the US.
I GUESS it makes sense if Hershey doesn’t sell directly outside the US, so here you go!
Everything about this is wrong.
Lies! I’m in Canada (which is definitely not inside the US) and it works fine.
Sorry you’re finding out like this /s
I’m in the UK. I think US news sites block EU residents because of GDPR requiring cookie notices. They’d rather just block access than add a line of code to show a cookie notice.
Probably! I’m just being a pedantic Canadian, annoyed that we keep getting lumped in with the US.
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Yeah there is one picture on the wrapper and it doesn’t accurately represent the product. A small thing perhaps but it would be great to start calling out a lot of this trickery or carelessness.
If you’re a Jets fan, these can just be the horseshit from their playbook instead 😏
Terrible first world problem if you ask me.
I definitely agree that this particular “problem” hardly negatively affects anyone, but I’m always glad to see false advertising cases. There should be strict standards across the board when it comes to deceiving customers, even on things like food presentation
Presentation? Nah. Contentand amount sure. But the way a food looks has nothing to do with what it tastes like and it’s nutritional content. This right here is idiotic. I never expect chocolate to have the design found on the foil.
Sure it does. When coffee was dyed darker, people thought it tasted more bitter.
The way food looks absolutely affects how it tastes like
Problems should be solved. I don’t understand the sentiment. You aren’t being asked to do anything.
There are lawyers that make their whole living taking big companies to court for petty stuff like this. Honestly, to me, it’s perfect. Lawyers get paid, companies have to be honest in how they present their product, and all the rest of us get to move on with our lives without having to care.
To me this solution is so much better than either “the government has an agency that inspects everyone’s packaging to make sure it’s honest” and “no one cares, put whatever you want on the packaging” that I’m having a hard time seeing what the down side is.
For all the pain and misery the chocolate industry is responsible for, we should take what we can get under our system when we can.