Last Updated on June 5, 2017
Starbucks critics are now accusing the company of serving polar bear cookies some say depict a grotesque scene.
Some stories are just so damned stupid that you want to smack someone.
Not content to accuse Starbucks of fighting a “war on Christmas”  by offering plain red “minimalist”  holiday cups instead of past designs that included “winter”-themed icons, Starbucks’ critics have now jumped on the company over its polar bear cookies.
The cookies, shaped like the giant white bears, have one little detail that I would think most reasonable people would look at and immediately understand. Maybe I’m wrong. Instead of seeing what is clearly a red scarf, some claim the cookies look like the bears’ throats have been cut, and the two ends of the scarf that hang down are two trails of blood:
Oh my god, it's true! 😂 #Starbucks #polarbearcookies
See? I am not making this up.
But wait, it gets better! The cookies at the center of this new controversy haven’t been available since 2010.
No one, at least as far as I can tell, has complained about a more recent Starbucks design involving a Snowman:
#snowmancookie ⛄ï¸â¤ï¸ #starbucks #cookie #cafe #coffee #winter #snowman #cute #canada #toronto
Going back five years to bring a discontinued cookie into a current controversy is going a long way to make a point.
And it’s failing miserably.
If the cookies were currently available, I’d seriously love to ask the critics how they honestly could believe that a company like Starbucks would take as universally popular an animal as a polar bear and intentionally sell something that depicts what they want to make it out to be? How could any company expect to get away with that, particularly after already finding itself a victim over the stupid coffee cup controversy?
In any case, I may have to visit my local Starbucks and see what kind of goodies they do have. All this talk of cookies is making me hungry.
Cathryn (aka Strange) It is amazing sometimes, isn’t it? 🙂
Oh for pete’s sake! I saw this on my Facebook feed and thought it was satire! I can’t believe people are serious about this! Â It’s obviously a scarf. Â
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.