December 7, 2013

The Weirdest Pearl Harbor Tribute You’ll See All Weekend


Saturday is the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the surprise strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy, which left more than 2,400 Americans dead and forced the United States to enter World War II.

This is how the SpaghettiOs Twitter feed marked the occasion:

SpaghettiOs Pearl Harbor anniversary tweet

@SpaghettiOs/Twitter

Weird, right? For what it’s worth, @SpaghettiOs celebrated Thanksgiving in a far more tasteful manner.

The Campbell Soup Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the backlash to this bizarre canned-spaghetti-product Pearl Harbor tweet.

UPDATE: On Saturday, a spokeswoman for Campbell’s emailed Mother Jones the following statement:

We apologize for our recent Tweet as we meant no harm and felt it was best to remove it from Twitter.

@SpaghettiOs also tweeted this:

 

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Which is also a pretty great way to describe Mother Jones' mission: People coming together around the truth to hold power accountable.

And right now, we need to raise about $400,000 from our online readers over the next two months to hit our annual goal and make good on that mission. Read more about the information war we find ourselves in and how people-powered, independent reporting can and must rise to the challenge—and please support our team's truth-telling journalism with a donation if you can right now.

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