Get your Pride month Kevin the Carrot, while stocks last
Please consider this a sort of public service announcement. I mention it because sadly, you may have been unaware of what a special month this is at the supermarket Aldi. You still have time to buy a 'Kevin the Carrot' toy from Aldi for £3.99. Kevin is on sale all year round, of course – but in June, for a limited period, you can buy him dressed in the rainbow Pride colours, to celebrate Pride month. You can also buy a rainbow Pride beach towel to show your support.
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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Please consider this a sort of public service announcement. I mention it because sadly, you may have been unaware of what a special month this is at the supermarket Aldi. You still have time to buy a 'Kevin the Carrot' toy from Aldi for £3.99. Kevin is on sale all year round, of course – but in June, for a limited period, you can buy him dressed in the rainbow Pride colours, to celebrate Pride month. You can also buy a rainbow Pride beach towel to show your support. 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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