No more ‘midget’ gems

[TheBoroBuzzard]

World is going crackers

M&S drops the name Midget Gems after discrimination complaints

Dr Erin Pritchard of Liverpool Hope University warned supermarkets 'midget' is 'a form of hate speech' and has been lobbying supermarkets to change the name.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Facefuzz]

Mental

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Any dictionary or thesaurus that contains this sort of filth should be burned

 

[Zoophonic]

I didn't know you could still get them!

Is there any other newspaper besides the Mail getting into a lather about this?

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Thankfully we left the EU so this won't happen again

 

[Zoophonic]

Thankfully we left the EU so this won't happen again

I still say straighten out those bananas.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

A quarter of midget gems. The best sweets ever- especially the black ones.

 

[Rofesleg]

I thought this was going to some sort of reference to Barmby & Hignett compared to our new strikeforce.

 

[Facefuzz]

A quarter of midget gems. The best sweets ever- especially the black ones.

I don’t like the licorice ones. I like the black currant black ones. Didn’t they do reds and blacks? or it might have been wine gums

 

[afcb_acklam]

A quarter of midget gems. The best sweets ever- especially the black ones.

racist

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

I don’t like the licorice ones. I like the black currant black ones. Didn’t they do reds and blacks? or it might have been wine gums

It was a strange sort of Liqurice but lovely - very different to Pontefract cakes

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

Black jacks and fruit salads are still available.. for now.

 

[WindyNook]

I thought something catastrophic had happened to Barmby and Higgy!

 

[newusername]

World is going crackers

M&S drops the name Midget Gems after discrimination complaints

Dr Erin Pritchard of Liverpool Hope University warned supermarkets 'midget' is 'a form of hate speech' and has been lobbying supermarkets to change the name.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Seems fair enough really.

 

[Konrad_the_Barbarian]

A quarter of midget gems. The best sweets ever- especially the black ones.

Yes but only the proper "rock hard" original Lions midget gems. None of this Maynards $hlte.

 

[S7DiscoDown]

The first thing I thought of was Hignett and Barmby

Only Boro fans can see 'midget gems' and think of football.

As for changing the name? Seems over the top... Yet it's now a daily occurance. Although it makes no odds to most people. You'd still call them midget gems.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Yes but only the proper "rock hard" original Lions midget gems. None of this Maynards $hlte.

Used to be some good ones off Stockton market

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

I don't think the M & S midget gems have the proper flavoured black ones anyway so to me they haven't got the right to use the proper name. It's false advertising
Proper ones are available from the sweet shop in Saltburn

 

[HundredRoom]

Black jacks and fruit salads are still available.. for now.

Still four for a penny.

 

[Wiseman_Vaughn]

Still four for a penny.

tuppence mix - a couple of fruit salads, black jacks, sherbet shandy, flying saucers and a football chew