Judge says Hershey's mints resemble cocaine

Abbey_Road

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertisi … shey_N.htm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) '” Hershey (HSY), the century-old maker of chocolate bars recognizable in every corner of America, is selling a mint that police officers and judges say would be recognizable on a drug corner.
Ice Breakers Pacs are nickel-size dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside. They look similar to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine.

"Being in narcotics the majority of my career, I thought it was the real stuff," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn told the Philadelphia Daily News.

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The mints, which are sold in blue and orange plastic slide-top cases, first hit store shelves in November.

"I was shocked," Wagner told the newspaper.

A spokesman for the company, based in Hershey, Pa., about 80 miles west of Philadelphia, pointed out that each pouch '” made by two dissolvable mint strips '” bears the Ice Breakers logo.

"It is not intended to simulate anything," said spokesman Kirk Saville.

Saville would not directly respond to questions about whether Hershey has plans to change the product's appearance or whether anyone in law enforcement or inside the company has previously raised a concern about it.

Contributing: Philadelphia Daily News

monkeychow

This is going to lead to trouble when people get arrested and shot for candy!

Abbey_Road

Makes you wonder who in the hell they have employed as their marketing/promotions person(s).

A Private Eye

I once nearly got kicked out of school for mistaken drug possession. I'd been at a joke shop over the weekend and bought some lame trick stuff and one of the things I'd bought was this stuff called love potion, you dropped it in a drink of someone and they'd become all loved up, or so it said on the packet. It was obviously total crap and had nothing in it to either harm anyone or cause someone to fall in love, it was a kids joke. However it was a white powder and came in small clear bag, and a teacher saw me with it, they threatened all sorts, police and everything. It took quite a lot of convincing for them to believe that it was nothing more than probably baking soda in a little bag.

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