Now, about those bleeding polar bears…
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First Starbucks ignites a firestorm by leaving the usual Christmas icons off its holiday cups, and now it draws accusations that it’s inhumane to polar bears, or at least cutesy cookie versions of the majestic beasts.
Each of the oversized cookies, which you can see here, is adorned with a whimsical holiday scarf of red frosting. Or is that the mark of a mob-style hit? Did Starbucks subdue those cookie bears by slitting their throats???
So some consumers are alleging online, hopefully tongue-in-cheek.
“A polar bear with it's [sic] throat slit? That's a holiday you don't forget,” one Twitter user posted.
“Starbucks is getting dark this Christmas. Polar bears look like they got Catelyn Stark'd,” observed another, referring to a “Game of Thrones” character whose throat was cut.
Who’d have known polar bear cookies would be more controversial than pepperoni socks?