A clever new marketing campaign has been scuttled by city officials after some idiots raised a stink.

Got Milk? marketing campaign billboards at city bus shelters in San Francisco had been treated with scented oil strips that smelled like fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. The idea was that people waiting on the bus would develop a craving for milk.

Officials ordered the company responsible for putting up the signs to remove the scented strips after critics expressed concern that (get this) they would be offensive to poor and homeless people because they couldn’t afford to buy sweet treats.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Have you ever seen someone use food stamps at a grocery store? I was in line behind two very large ladies just last week and their cart was loaded with soft drinks, chips, candy and cookies. They paid with food stamps and I didn’t see them buy one single nutritious item.

Unfortunately for the Dairy Council they also didn’t buy any milk, but I bet they would have if they’d just come from a bus stop with a cookie scented billboard.

Source: Associated Press

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