Pennsylvania-based The Hershey Company is facing a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages over the wrappers on Reese's peanut butter candies.

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.

  • @_wizard
    -23•6 months ago

    Terrible first world problem if you ask me.

    • @ChexMax
      40•6 months ago

      I definitely agree that this particular “problem” hardly negatively affects anyone, but I’m always glad to see false advertising cases. There should be strict standards across the board when it comes to deceiving customers, even on things like food presentation

      • Ataraxia
        -19•6 months ago

        Presentation? Nah. Contentand amount sure. But the way a food looks has nothing to do with what it tastes like and it’s nutritional content. This right here is idiotic. I never expect chocolate to have the design found on the foil.

        • @iopq
          13•6 months ago

          Sure it does. When coffee was dyed darker, people thought it tasted more bitter.

          The way food looks absolutely affects how it tastes like

    • Ook the Librarian
      29•6 months ago

      Problems should be solved. I don’t understand the sentiment. You aren’t being asked to do anything.

    • mo_ztt ✅English
      19•6 months ago

      There are lawyers that make their whole living taking big companies to court for petty stuff like this. Honestly, to me, it’s perfect. Lawyers get paid, companies have to be honest in how they present their product, and all the rest of us get to move on with our lives without having to care.

      To me this solution is so much better than either “the government has an agency that inspects everyone’s packaging to make sure it’s honest” and “no one cares, put whatever you want on the packaging” that I’m having a hard time seeing what the down side is.

    • PorkRoll
      9•6 months ago

      For all the pain and misery the chocolate industry is responsible for, we should take what we can get under our system when we can.