A Christian family values organization is celebrating after convincing an Australian retailer to stop selling chocolate poker chips.
Members of the FamilyVoice Australia group recently became suitably outraged after discovering that a Big W store in South Australia was selling the chips, which are essentially chocolate disks with poker-chip designs on the foil rather than the traditional gold coin imagery.
FamilyVoice head busybody David d’Lima told the News Mail that he’d raised a fuss because the “realistic-looking gambling chips effectively tell children that gambling is a fun thing – without giving them any idea of the heartbreak that can result.”
It’s unclear whether d’Lima is similarly worked up over those ubiquitous chocolate coins, which shamelessly tempt the kids’ taste buds without so much as a warning of the horrors of personal bankruptcy or having to pay alimony to that bitch-goddess queen of the harpies you used to call your wife.