Candle Crisis

Time to cancel a candle:

Bath & Body Works recently released a line of winter-themed candles just in time for Christmas shopping. One of the candles is called “Snowed In,” and the artwork on the outside of the jar is supposed to evoke those paper cut-out snowflakes that we call made as kids. There’s one teeny-tiny problem with the artwork. Some people say that it looks like Ku Klux Klan hoods. Oof. I don’t know that I would have immediately noticed it, but now that I’ve seen it, I can’t unsee it. And neither can other consumers. “People on X nicknamed the controversial candle the 'KKKandle, the 'scandle,' and the 'klandle,'” reports the Daily Mail. “Many people called out the people behind the seasonal sconce, with one tweeting, 'Bath & Body Works needs to fire all the people who approved this candle artwork.'”

Sometimes a candle is just a candle...