Hershey Shelves Cocaine Look-Alike Candy

The Hershey Co. is halting production of Ice Breakers Pacs in response to criticism that the mints look too much like illegal street drugs, the company's president and chief executive officer said Thursday. ...

"Some community and law-enforcement leaders have expressed concern" about the shape of pouch and the Xylitol sweetener inside, and about the possibility of the mints being mistaken for illegal substances, West said.

"We are sensitive to these viewpoints and thus have made the decision that we will no longer manufacture Ice Breakers Pacs," he said.

This is amazing. I can just imagine the one marketing dude who sat through every meeting giggling to himself. Read more about it here.

On a similar note, Vice Magazine has published an oral history of the infamous Kokie's bar in Brooklyn, where patrons would buy cocaine in the back and snort it behind a curtained corner. I'd heard of its existence through friends but always assumed it was hyperbole. Apparently not. Anyhow, it's a highly entertaining read.