Oh. "Ham-mas" sounds like "Hamas." I was trying to figure out why Jews wanted Christmas food to be kosher.
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Those poor marketing people who spent months getting this idea to fruition only to be f'ed by such a silly oversight.
It's hilarious! I can imagine their faces once someone realised or pointed it out.
I would love to know exactly how much time and money went into coming up with the word "Ham-mas" itself.
Right.. adults in the room all cheerfully giving eachother high fives for coming up with it.. I'm laughing about the absurdity.
I bet it was the same person who came up with the name of the workplace on Archer.
Pissed off some ancient Greek God and is now cursed to come up with amazing names and slogans that will become touch of death within months. Doomed to roam the earth from marketing group to marketing group. When he dies his tombstone will read "here lies the man who named it The Dangerous Life of Altarboys"
This is hilarious because I came up with a few people it could offend before arriving at the actual reason:
-Jewish people (because of ham)
-"Put the Christ back in Christmas" people
-Vegetarians/vegans
-Edgelords who resent even being reminded of Christmas
You missed Hamas
As did Isreal!
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Jokes aside, it also took me forever, and I went through the exact same list of who might be offended. Who reads "Ham-mas" on a christmas bag and even when saying it out loud associates it with Hamas? I mean it's not like anybody still associates Christmas with Christ, so who cares what the first part is. Give me Crisp-mas with lots of crackers!
It's actually the Jews who asked to pull it out because it sounds like Hamas
They call Hamas “Ham” to save time.
And because they all secretly love pork even though it's haram.
I mean who doesn't like pork? If I had to pick one type of meat and that's all I'm allowed to eat for the rest of my life I'd choose pork
Unpopular opinion: Pork over beef. Anyday.
Jewish people don't give a shit about other people eating ham.
Not entirely true. Go eat a ham sandwich outside a Hasidic synagogue when they’re being let out of temple; probably gonna cause a stir. Especially if said temple is in Israel proper.
Granted, I’d find it hard to believe such a sandwich eater wasn’t trying to stir shit, so maybe getting yelled at is justified….but you see my point, i hope
Adding context that makes it an obvious attempt to insulting does not contradict the statement that they don't care about others eating ham. They care about the obvious intent to be offensive.
Keep in mind that if someone was eating a sandwich it would be hard for them to even know if it was ham without the person making a scene about it.
For fuck sake, it's a ham bag with Christmas trees on it, Kmart should have told them to pull their heads out of their arses.
Idk this was pretty funny, the corporate panic makes it funnier.
You just know there's some poor advertising peon getting yelled at rn, even though not one person in the office put the dots together.
Reminds me of how the Danish (?) organic snacks company now known as Easis was still called Isis long after those letters became toxic.
Personally I found the prospect of terrorists making and selling organic muesli bars pretending to be healthy absolutely hilarious 😂
long after those letters became toxic
What's toxic about an egyptian goddess? 😜 (to be fair, the terrorist group is called IS, and calling it ISIS was always a bit weird)
Well Danish news first called it ISIS, then ISIL and then IS. Now they usually use the whole name Islamic State, but in Danish.
They pretended to be healthy? Wanna bet they’re awful?
Maybe they should mail them to terrorists. You know. As a weapon against morale
They're actually very tasty. Tons of sugar in them to achieve that, though.
Why am I not surprised?
Oh well. Guess weird mailing those rice cake thingies that taste like styrofoam
My friends had a CI wear a wire for a fucking weed sale, but they were watching Archer at the time he was there to pick up. Led to some hilarious questions from idiot cops.
Few months ago no one would have noticed and now the entire stock will likely go into landfill.
Fucking ridiculous!
"Hammy Holidays" would have been the obvious choice
That took me 20 seconds.
same here, roughly
So Kmart is still a thing, who knew?
Totally different company to the US version.
I thought Jews had a sense of humor...
The group wrote: "Although this is potentially funny (the AJA committee has tossed around some non-PC jokes) it's really not a good look.
"We suspect some product manager may cause the company some embarrassment.
"So we've politely written to Wesfarmers corporate suggesting the product be pulled."
suggesting the product be pulled
lol
I mean, it's a fair cop. "Hey guys, not sure if you've noticed this, but..."
It wouldn't surprise me if Wesfarmers overreacted to their message because of who it was from, too.
I think our friend here was loling at "pulled [pork]".
What it was supposed to mean? I can only read ’Merry Hamas’
Just like people rewrite the phrase as "Merry Xmas" or non-christ substitutes like cats in "Merry Kitmas", they were trying to make a ham-holiday. A Mass made of Ham. A Ham Mass/feast. Sadly, there is a war on so anything close to 'Hamas' is no longer suitable for mass-market humor.
-mas