Get your Pride month ‘Kevin the Carrot', while stocks last
Better still, a proportion of the profits raised by the gloriously aware fictitious carrot will be donated to the pro-trans charity Switchboard. While Aldi is to be commended in its support for Pride and Switchboard, it seems to me a shame that following the supreme court ruling Aldi did not take the opportunity to portray Kevin as a trans-vegetable, perhaps by stapling on to his carrot body the, say, interior leaves of a globe artichoke. But never mind. One can be too critical.
This purulent rubbish is still going on.
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