Politically Incorrect: Haribo Stops Scandinavian Sales of "RACIST" Sweets

The sweets, part of the Skipper Mix salty blend which has been on the market for years, will no longer feature the controversial figures in the future in both Scandinavian countries.

Haribo said it had taken into account the critical comments made over the Internet in recent weeks. "We decided that we could keep the product while removing the parts that certain consumers found offensive," Haribo Sweden head Ola Dagliden told AFP. The offending sweets are in the shape of ethnic masks or facial representations "that resemble primitive African, Asian or Native American art".

They depicted what "a sailor who travelled the world" in days would have brought home in days gone by, Dagliden said. "It wasn't something we saw as having negative connotations."

A picture of the sweets was removed from Haribo's Swedish website on Friday afternoon, AFP discovered. Other allegedly "racist" depictions of African and Asian people have sparked a "heated debate" in Sweden in the last few years. In November, the Swedish department store Aahlens said it had recalled a brochure featuring two blackfaced minstrels with big pink lips.

In 2012, Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported that one in ten libraries in the country refused to display or tried to limit access to the comic book "Tintin in the Congo", which some claimed was "racist".

(Daily Mail)

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