(Actually its not “hidden” at all, but I only became aware of it’s obvious racism after I started to consider myself a communist.)

For those who don’t know what Conguitos is, it’s basically a brand of junk food. I know the brand since I was little so the brand has always seemed normal to me. But one day I noticed how racist it is, and I don’t know how I didn’t notice earlier.

I’ll let you judge it by yourself first

[CW: Racism] This is one of their products

Where to even begin… The mascot is a caricature of a black person, basically blackface, the name itself, “Conguitos”, makes reference to the Congo, and if you think that’s all, the ads are as obviously racist as it gets.

This crap is so normalized in Spain that it’s actually frightening.

  • lemmygrabber
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    121 year ago

    Have they never been pressured to stop using 80s style racist caricatures?

  • 陆船。
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    101 year ago

    Wow, a chocolate product that’s manages to be equally racist as the Belgian chocolate hands.

  • Red Phoenix
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    1 year ago

    Wow the lips are a dead giveaway. I didn’t know shit like this could still fly these days in Spain.

    Those ads are horrific. The one where the white hand is plucking up the black children is genuinely horrific and rage-inducing.

    Is it a coincidence that the only chocolates in the background that are standing up are split open? Like those who stand up to oppression you will be killed? Or am I reading too much into this?

    • QueerCommie
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      61 year ago

      I think you might be reading to far into it, they all seem pretty happy to be eaten, (except maybe in the one where they are picked off one by one from a line)

      • Red Phoenix
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        51 year ago

        You’re right, silly me! Just a coincidence 😆

  • Water Bowl Slime
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    31 year ago

    That is unreal omfg! And apparently the company doubled down on keeping the mascot during the BLM protests?? Por todas las faltas de los EEUU por lo menos no seguimos teniendo personajes racistas como mascotas de marca. Nunca he visto este dulce en cualquier tienda aqui y ni somos progresivos.