{"id":25189,"date":"2020-03-03T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=25189"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:51:56","slug":"snickers-accused-of-disrespecting-welsh-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/snickers-accused-of-disrespecting-welsh-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Snickers accused of disrespecting Welsh language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The chocolate company, owned by Mars Inc,  has caused outrage on Twitter  after publishing a series of tweets mocking Welsh place names. A Plaid Cymru MP also criticised the company the company after comparing the spellings to someone sitting on a keyboard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Would love to know why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNICKERS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SNICKERS<\/a> thought it okay (necessary, even) to mock a language in order to sell chocolate? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/twlldinbobsais?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#twlldinbobsais<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E1ODpuBfMT\">pic.twitter.com\/E1ODpuBfMT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Geraint Owen (@geraintllyrowen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geraintllyrowen\/status\/1234842436083556353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The tweets by the UK Snickers account have since been deleted following a backlash on Twitter with some people saying they would never buy the chocolate bar again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/evpowell_\/status\/1234861454735683584\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also came under fire for misspelling some of the place names .. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/bethancook96\/status\/1234831461972357120\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Plaid Cymru MP Carmarthen East and Dinefwr  also criticised the company and said &#8220;Our language and our culture is the last acceptable form of racism.&nbsp; These xenophobic attacks are clearly not acceptable. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a week that goes by without somebody mocking Wales as a country, or mocking our language and culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CJS News asked their following that those who are Welsh how many were offended, with over 75% of those surveyed saying they were offended by the posts written by the chocolate company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"457\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/survet.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25219\" data-link=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?attachment_id=25219\" class=\"wp-image-25219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/survet.jpg 457w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/survet-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/survet-149x122.jpg 149w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/survet-110x90.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Snickers has since apologised  &#8220;From everyone at Snickers UK, we&#8217;re sorry to everyone offended by our last tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We totally misjudged it and hold our hands up for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J9w3mhDSup\">pic.twitter.com\/J9w3mhDSup<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SNICKERS UK (@SNICKERSUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNICKERSUK\/status\/1234840504568860672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chocolate company, owned by Mars Inc, has caused outrage on Twitter after publishing a series of tweets mocking Welsh place names. A Plaid Cymru MP also criticised the company the company after comparing the spellings to someone sitting on a keyboard. 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