Cheaper than Coles special at $2 from $3 originally.
Yummy Yums chicos. Soon to be renamed or already renamed.
Allen's Lollies $1.50 (1/2 Price) @ Woolworths
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Yes. As a hypersensitive marketing non-species I'm triggered
Squish them, stretch them, bite their heads off and chew on them before they get up to mischief.
I don't know the racism b/g. But let's hope we eradicate racism. But remember it was once a different name.
The Spanish word for boy is offensive.
Great world we’ve created.
You mean Cheekies
I find the word 'cheekies' offensive…
I find the word offensive, offensive!
That's why I use the word zcovfeej instead of offensive where possible…
I mean every kid knows something sus was up with Chico’s.
Will these become a collectors item?
EVERything one day will be.
I'm surprised they are still selling these and people aren't jumping up and down about it…
Should they throw them out?
No, I think they should keep the name.
Why are they changing it?
Because you're eating mexican kids…
kind of an off putting marketing decision.
"Chico" is a Spanish word meaning 'boys, 'kids' or 'guys'.
Ah apologies, not super well read up on my derogatory terms obviously.
So do you start from the butt first or?
@NatoTomato: Reminder that jv is nothing but a troll and is utterly licking his lips at the possibilities of replies to this. Please don't feed the troll.
Because one person called another person a Chico and now it's offensive. If I get called a Mintie that will be the end of them too!!!
@thestig: I would think that 538 million people call people Chico's. Chico isn't a slur.
Red Skins are, but Chico isn't.
@NatoTomato: Chico on it's own isn't offensive. However, when used as a name for a black coloured person (i.e. the shape of the lolly), it is. That's like saying that anyone who is Latino must be dark. When in fact, latinos range from pure white in skin colour to the opposite.
@thestig: "It can also be considered a derogatory term for people of Latin American descent, although this is not generally known in Australia"
Point proven thanks thestig ;-)
@onlinepred: Didn't realise I'd need to spell it out but just for you…It's not that I'm unaware that anyone has ever used it in a derogatory way. It's an innocent Spanish word meaning child but because someone decided to start using that word in a derogatory way towards others then apparently the use of that word in a non-derogatory way is no longer appropriate. Hence my point… if I start being called a Mintie in a derogatory way we will need to change that name too. Clear enough?
@thestig: We would have to distinguish your traits, then call all people similar to you the same, and also treat them differently. Then yes, that is clear enough.
@thestig: Nope, you've got it all wrong. See my comment above - "chico" on it's own isn't offensive. However, when used as a name for a black coloured lolly in the shape of a person, it is. It creates the stereotype that anyone who is latino must be dark skinned.
Why just list the baby Chicos, which is having a name change, when other varieties are also the same price like Snakes Alive?
I sense an element of trolling…
Black cats too! But Chicos are clearly the best.
Seems like all varieties
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/search/products?searchTer…Also it’s online only.
MATE, i was craving the taste. It's the only lolly i like best.
BTW if noone has not tried Splashe Orange drink / codarial.. they haven't lived a GREAT life.
I thought these lollies had been SJW'ed out of existence?!
cant wait to buy discounted red rockets
This is the very stuff that makes you carry a few more kg's than you need to. It's not worth it, especially if you're above 30.
The name “Snakes Alive” offends me.
I demand it is changed to “Karen’s Alive”
"Snakes Alive" is a very phallocentric name for a confectionary product. They should rename it something using a non-gendered bias term like "Gelling agent glucose ropes".
"Gelling agent glucose ropes". lmao. Now that comment made my day. cheers.
uh, ropes can be tied into nooses so please rethink
Offense is a choice?
Might grab some Chiccos and Redskins too.
For vegans/vegetarians, FYI these got Pork Skin Gelatin.
Best prank ever.
From their site - https://www.nestle.com.au/en/brands/allens
- we use Halal beef gelatine in our lollies (with the exception of Allen’s Sour Randomz which contain pork gelatine).
Not for me. I'm doing no Nestlé November
I'm doing that until I have dementia.
Not sure if " red ripper" is a good name
First result on Google search "red ripper"
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Soviet serial killer, nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSRAre they going to rename Chiko rolls too due to the similarity or are they standing strong?
tehy should need a history museum to store all the past rasict ism
Are allens frogs any good? They look different from the red frogs I had as a kid.
Allen's have two types of frogs - Red Frogs and Frogs Alive. The big ones are likely the one you remember from your childhood which are still sold in the 1.3kg bags.
Will have to rename frogs too as that was a derogatory term for the french
i haven't heard "fat" in a while. I am fat but I wonder why nobody calls me fat.
Allen's Chicos are deliciously yummy, chocolate flavoured, iconic jelly babies.
choco flavoured jelly??
You mean Cheekies