Walmart Apologizes for Naughty Sweaters of Santa Doing Cocaine
We all love a good ugly sweater to ring in the holidays. Bring on the cringe-y patterns in all their gaudy, red and green glory. If I can hear you jingling, or see you flashing Christmas lights as you walk, bravo, your sweater is very ugly! But finding that perfect chichi pullover can be a mission. If you've searched Walmart.ca recently, you may have seen a sweater worthy of the Naughty List being hawked by a third-party seller.
Walmart Canada removed a collection of sweaters off their website this weekend, one of which appeared to depict Santa doing cocaine. The men's sweater featured a Santa sitting in front of three neatly packed rows of white powder. "Let It Snow" was printed below, and the sweater was stippled with snowflakes. If customers still didn't catch the reference (or truly believed it was innocent), the garment's description further reinforced the idea of what Santa was up to.
The description given by the third-party vendor FUN Wear reads: "We all know how snow works. It's white, powdery and the best snow comes straight from South America. That's bad news for jolly old St. Nick, who lives far away in the North Pole. That's why Santa really likes to savor the moment when he gets his hands on some quality, grade A, Colombian snow. He packs it in perfect lines on his coffee table and then takes a big whiff to smell the high quality aroma of the snow."
Yall. Look at this description for this Christmas sweater from Walmart pic.twitter.com/lBdmKQ1JoZ
— Jason John (@HurrbaSousJohn) December 7, 2019
After the sweater caught wind on Twitter, Walmart Canada released a statement to Global News: “These sweaters, sold by a third-party seller on Walmart.ca, do not represent Walmart’s values and have no place on our website. We have removed these products from our marketplace. We apologize for any unintended offense this may have caused.”
While the "Let It Snow" Sweater garnered the most attention, a few other raunchy holiday sweaters sold by third-party vendors were also taken off Walmart.ca. They're a bit too family-unfriendly to mention here; let's just say they put Father Christmas into a whole lot of sexual scenarios.
Yes, these sweaters would definitely turn some heads, it's not the type of attention you want at a holiday party—no matter how much you're trying to irk your family. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to glue a stocking to my sweater so I can cradle a bottle of wine during this year's ugly sweater party. You can check out that tutorial here. See, it's possible to nail the tacky-naughty thing without alluding to full-blown illegal activity.
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