Its demise is being attributed to those zealots known as animal rights activists.

Seems they didn't like road kill candy; little gummy confections in the shape of snakes, chickens and squirrels that came complete with tire marks on their flattened gelatinous bodies.

Road kill gummy candy may have been tasty, but to the purveyors of all that is politically correct, they were mostly tasteless.

Animal rights folk were just all a-twitter, saying road kill candy told kids it was OK to harm animals.

I suppose they envisioned a world of 6-year olds chomping down on flat cherry snakes while using the family cat as a skateboard hurdle.

Sadly, Kraft Foods reacted to complaints by animal rights extremists and stopped production of their road kill candy.

I expect that soon, Swedish fish will disappear from candy shelves, followed by gummy bears.

Can animal crackers be far behind?

Meanwhile, animal rights fanatics will continue to munch on sour patch kids.

That's the way of our politically correct world.

In something, somewhere, offends someone, it's doomed.

What a crock.

Goldfish anyone?

(Crackers for cryin' out loud. Goldfish crackers!)

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