New Hershey Mints Resemble Cocaine

[okarol]

New Hershey Mints Resemble Cocaine

Posted: 2007-11-30 19:37:43
Filed Under: Business News

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Nov. 30) -- Hershey, the century-old maker of chocolate bars recognizable in every corner of America, is selling a mint that police officers and judges say would be recognizable on a drug corner.

Ice Breakers Pacs are nickel-size dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside. They look similar to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine.

"Being in narcotics the majority of my career, I thought it was the real stuff," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector William Blackburn told the Philadelphia Daily News.

The mints, which are sold in blue and orange plastic slide-top cases, first hit store shelves in November.

Linda Wagner, a Philadelphia narcotics officer whose teenage daughter died of a heroin overdose, held back tears when she saw the pouches.

"I was shocked," Wagner told the newspaper.

A spokesman for the company, based in Hershey, Pa., about 80 miles west of Philadelphia, pointed out that each pouch -- made by two dissolvable mint strips -- bears the Ice Breakers logo.

"It is not intended to simulate anything," said spokesman Kirk Saville.

Saville would not directly respond to questions about whether Hershey has plans to change the product's appearance or whether anyone in law enforcement or inside the company has previously raised a concern about it.

2007-11-30 16:31:20

PHOTO: A Hershey's Ice Breakers Pacs product containing nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a mint flavored powdered sweetener inside, is photographed in Harrisburg, Pa.

[Aldente]

I don't use cocaine so I wouldn't know what a package looks like. I guess this could be an honest mistake.  I can't imagine a company like Hershey's intentionally putting out a product that could ruin their reputation and jeopardize business.  I guess we'll have to wait and see what the public reaction is and what they do with the product.

[Sluff]

Finally a way to make money...I'll be on the corner selling the stuff.

[Joe Paul]

Finally a way to make money...I'll be on the corner selling the stuff.

Would be great BUT the law sees and treats look a like just as the real thing! I know you are just kidding, but the government will make its money either way 

[Sluff]

You are so right. JP

[boxman55]

thats the best picture of you yet...Boxman   

[tamara]

thats the best picture of you yet...Boxman

Nah, the pic was missing something   

[Sluff]

 

[okarol]

   

[goofynina]

Damn, so i guess now we can "score" at any Walgreens or Rite-Aid now too