One of the famous chocolate manufacturing companies around the world, whose products are spread in some Arab countries, published a picture of one of its products showing locusts, which caused a wide interaction among followers.
And the company, “Ritter Sport”, for the manufacture of chocolate, shared the image on its official health on social media, as the image garnered a large number of criticisms.
Many commented on the post with expressions of disapproval, denunciation and rejection, while some confirmed that they would refrain from purchasing the company’s products in the future and boycott them permanently.
#rittersport
Ihr seit ganz schö flink 🤣🤪 pic.twitter.com/VAkKbf09hk— Mike Sauerbrey (@Saui1976) January 25, 2023
In turn, the “Lapsha” website linked this advertisement to some news reported by agencies in Europe, which claimed that “the European Union has begun to expand the use of insects in food. Such as the use of yellow worms and locusts, in addition to the brownie cockroach and buffalo worms.”
#RitterSport has published their new "protein" cricket crunchy taste. This product is not acceptable and offering of such product is offensive. The owners of RS should eat an insects and feed their children with them. And stop offering this shit to humanshttps://t.co/17hF2JAW1p pic.twitter.com/KzTxeYhAP2
— 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 (@Weichensteller1) January 30, 2023
The sources indicated that this advertisement does not go beyond mere “joking”, and that the company followed this method on more than one occasion with its followers.
The sources pointed out that the company “Ritter Sport” had earlier published a lot of publications about fake versions such as chocolate with mustard, pickled cucumbers or beer.
Some followers took note of the funny post and urged others not to take this information seriously.