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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[HG 400]

And your people were caught.

Unlike your rape gangs.

 

[Guli]

I mean, Royal Mail can only ask.. if it were to continue on, spurred by a few basement dwellers with a couple crisp packets lying around, you could probably do damage to the economy with enough of them, near enough everything goes through Royal Mail here.

That or you'd get a couple weeks of chuckles.. which is whats really important here

 

[heathercho]

Walkers Chips just sounds wrong though. Also there's no way I want this:

When I ask for this:

And Fish 'n' Fries, or Fries and Gravy sounds stupid.

Hang on. We also call them Chips. Fish and Chips. Smith's Chips. French fries are small shoestring chips. You know what, we may be an island full of convicts and abos, but we can handle the same word for multiple things.

Anyway, British people should be mailing Pakis back to Pakistan instead of chip packets to a poor chip manufacturer, shouldn't they?

 

[sasazuka]

"Royal Mail said it had handled about 30 crisp packets so far."

Is that only 30 crisp packets for all of Britain? I guess it is a pain for postal sorters but 30 seems like a very low threshold to be newsworthy.

As for the poll, I dunno, I'm boring, I always liked my crisps/chips, you know, potato-flavoured. My father was a "salt and vinegar" fan (do they really need to specify "salt" in a crisps context? What flavour doesn't have salt?) but I never grew a taste for vinegar on crisps, sorry. Even as a kid, I considered salt-and-vinegar flavour to be not too far removed from "battery acid" flavour.

And Fish 'n' Fries, or Fries and Gravy sounds stupid.

For "Chips and Gravy", if you add cheese curds, you can call it "Poutine". Though I was never a fan of poutine either, I don't like soggy fries and the cheese curds are like the lowest quality cheese possible, sub-store brand wrapped "singles" quality.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Why don’t they just boycott the damn chips then? No one needs potato chips to live. They’re quite frankly the least healthy food you can eat.

 

[Fareal]

Why don’t they just boycott the damn chips then? No one needs potato chips to live. They’re quite frankly the least healthy food you can eat.

I’m guessing you're not from the UK. Fried potatoes are a major food group here

 

[Bagronkleton]

..you invented hershey bars, quite possibly the most disgusting chocolate in existence.

Hold up, hold up.

Before fingers start pointing too hard, need I remind that deep fried mars bars are a dessert over there.

 

[DragoonSierra]

A chip butty is fucking amazing if you do it right.



Ketchup is for children and soyboys who can't handle anything spicier than Vimto.

try putting chips on there. You know... American Chips

 

[Pubic Enemy #1]

>mfw yanks call shaved yellow crunchy crunch "potato chips" near me
>mfw yanks call skinny winny salty poohs "fries" near me

 

[CWCissey]

Hold up, hold up.

Before fingers start pointing too hard, need I remind that deep fried mars bars are a dessert over there.

Scotland's fuckin' weird

 

[Guli]

Hold up, hold up.

Before fingers start pointing too hard, need I remind that deep fried mars bars are a dessert over there.

That's the scottish, so long as they stay up north we just let them do their thing.

 

[CWCchange]

You guys combine jelly with peanut butter and you invented hershey bars, quite possibly the most disgusting chocolate in existence. Don't talk to us about wrong.

We also gave you the Mars Bar, while Cadbury and Nestle chocolate has turned to shit.

>mfw yanks call shaved yellow crunchy crunch "potato chips" near me
>mfw yanks call skinny winny salty poohs "fries" near me

Churchill was part-yank.

 

[AnOminous]

Is that only 30 crisp packets for all of Britain? I guess it is a pain for postal sorters but 30 seems like a very low threshold to be newsworthy.

It's not like they have any actual news there, like they would if there were roving rape gangs in the streets, creeping fascism oppressing the people, or anything like that.

 

[Roast Chicken]

We also gave you the Mars Bar, while Cadbury and Nestle chocolate has turned to shit.

You know I honestly haven't noticed a difference in the Cadbury bars; people keep saying they taste worse since Kraft bought them but I suppose I'm just acclimatized to mediocre chocolate. I still draw the line at Hershey's, though.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Hold up, hold up.

Before fingers start pointing too hard, need I remind that deep fried mars bars are a dessert over there.

Its a mars bar thats covered in batter and flash fryed and is more of a gimmick meme item than a actual food item. Cod roe remains the most disgusting thing I seen sold in a chippy alongside deep fried haggis.

You can get fried ice cream as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream

 

[AnOminous]

You know I honestly haven't noticed a difference in the Cadbury bars; people keep saying they taste worse since Kraft bought them but I suppose I'm just acclimatized to mediocre chocolate. I still draw the line at Hershey's, though.

Hershey's was always terrible but they completely disappeared off the map and lost the right even to call the shit they sell chocolate when they did away with even using cocoa butter. In fact, they're legally prohibited from calling that shit milk chocolate.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Its a mars bar thats covered in batter and flash fryed and is more of a gimmick meme item than a actual food item. Cod roe remains the most disgusting thing I seen sold in a chippy alongside deep fried haggis.

I was in Hastings a while back and some seafood shacks were advertising pickled eels. "Don't knock it 'til you've tried it" and all that but it sounds so gross.

 

[XYZpdq]

Yeah USA fries candy bars all the fucking time.

My father was a "salt and vinegar" fan (do they really need to specify "salt" in a crisps context? What flavour doesn't have salt?) but I never grew a taste for vinegar on crisps, sorry. Even as a kid, I considered salt-and-vinegar flavour to be not too far removed from "battery acid" flavour

Salt and Vinegar was sorta okay, usually I'd get it if I didn't want assholes taking any of my snacks.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Yeah USA fries candy bars all the fucking time.
.

I had a deep fried Snickers bar at a fair. That was amazing. Horribly, horribly unhealthy as fuck, but oh so tasty.

 

[Mrs Paul]

But they eat french fry sandwiches there. That's just gross.

You don't know what you're missing.