Kmart: Australian store pulls 'Merry Ham-mas' Christmas bag
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Kmart removed the festive-themed bag from sale after a Jewish group raised the likeness to Hamas.
  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    11 months ago

    Oh. “Ham-mas” sounds like “Hamas.” I was trying to figure out why Jews wanted Christmas food to be kosher.

    • Tosti@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • clearleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I would love to know exactly how much time and money went into coming up with the word “Ham-mas” itself.

        • Tosti@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Right… adults in the room all cheerfully giving eachother high fives for coming up with it… I’m laughing about the absurdity.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        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”