https://twitter.com/ZiadChehadeh1/status/675095778243817473
‘Tis the season to pile on Starbucks, for this company is catching even more controversy. It’s only been about a month since the nefarious red cups squashed the Christmas spirit, though their critics were laughed off cable news networks (and even Donald Trump joined in the debate). Alas, the world eventually figured out that only a vocal few were genuinely offended by the red cup design.
This may be the case with the Starbucks polar bear cookies, which are making internet rounds. Some people find the design hilarious (because it is). See the scarf? Some people think it looks like a slashed and bloodied neck. These jokes are pretty fitting.
These Starbucks polar bear cookies looking like their throats are slit makes me glad to be alive. pic.twitter.com/fmCMAXOCQz
— Andrew Dyce (@andrewbdyce) December 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/ZProphet_MMA/status/674773625954791424
Some people are allegedly upset at this cookie design because it’s insensitive to the endangered polar bear. (Ruining Christmas and killing polar bears? Too far, Starbucks.) Yet proof of these outraged people must lie elsewhere because these folks thoroughly embrace the cookie design.
Nothing puts me in the holiday spirit like @Starbucks Colombian Necktie Polar Bear cookies. pic.twitter.com/rCaCbtwmoE
— 🏳️🌈Fluffy Wuffy🏳️⚧️ (@primarylupine) December 10, 2015
Starbucks is getting dark this Christmas. Polar bears look like they got Catelyn Stark'd. #WarOnChristmas pic.twitter.com/gqGm1bGMv1
— J $ (@highkey_john) December 9, 2015
Starbucks selling polar bear biscuits with slashed necks? Oh wait … pic.twitter.com/MvNdwKmtwd
— Gill 🏴 (@CatnapMistress) December 10, 2015
Others reacted with heaps of scorn towards anyone who would write off Starbucks coffee because of an “offensive” cookie design.
if you really think the polar bear cookies from Starbucks have slit throats instead of red scarves. you've reached a new level of stupid.
— danii 🌻 (@gtodanii) December 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/MADBLACKTHOT/status/675757576902971392
Lmao apparently the Starbucks cookies look like they have polar bears with slit necks 😂😂 this is why we need a 2nd Halloween to celebrate
— Joe Heastings (@jheastings412) December 11, 2015
Aaaaand the trick is on the whole internet, for this cookie design hails all the way back to 2010. What really happened is that some joker popped this photo onto Imgur, and the fun began.
This guy has the right idea. Give some cookies to him.
I'm pretty sure no one is actually offended by these Starbucks polar bear cookies. I love the outrage over the fake outrage.
— Mark J. Sprinkle (@MarkSprinkle) December 16, 2015
