Oh, those Canadians. You know how most of them speak English but there are those folks in Quebec who insist on speaking French? Yeah, well that's going to get you in a whole bunch of trouble.
Seems that the Canadian bottlers for Coca-Cola had this contest (the details of which are mysteriously unknown) which imprints one English and one French word in the bottle caps for Vitamin Water totally at random. Are you following so far?
Well, a woman in Alberta was absolutely outraged when she found the words "You Retard" under one of the caps.
As fate would have it, the woman who opened the bottle and discovered the offensive bi-lingualism has a younger sister who suffers from cerebral palsy and autism.
Her father went absolutely batshit. He thought some rogue bottling employee had just gone ahead and printed the offensive words in the bottle cap.
Au contraire, mon amour!
Retard is just the French word for late or delayed and was chosen absolutely at random.
Coca-Cola got all apologetic when Blake's dad wrote them a scathing letter. They ordered the contest canceled (whatever the hell it was in the first place) and had all remaining bottle caps destroyed.
Yeah, it sounds pretty sketchy to us too, but then again, these are people who actually bought something called Vitamin Water.
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