HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it.
Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.
For example, Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.
They are marketed as carved.
Are they marketed as having a bite in them, too?
They are marketed as shaped, not carved. Even their website only makes mention of shape.
That picture is from their website. The bite is a common method of showing the interior of a food used very broadly. The other cutouts are unique to reeses. The York peppermint patties on the same website shaped like pumpkins dont possess those markings.
Right, the bites are on the photos, but one shouldn’t expect those in the package. Just like the carvings.
As I eluded to earlier, it’s possible that the faces were put there so that young children could better visualize what the shapes represent, but Reese makes no claims that they would be on the actually candy. And how could they be without becoming a crumby mess inside the package?