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(Image: JC Penney/MichaelGrave.com)
THE AMERICAN STORE JC Penney has come under fire this week after Reddit users pointed out that one of their kettles resembled Adolf Hitler.
JCP denied that the kettle looked like the Nazi dictator and said the resemblance was entirely “unintentional”.
At the moment, the $40 Michael Graves designed kitchen utensil has sold out on the JC Penney site. It was out put on eBay for $199.99, but it also sold out there!
The kettle looks like it has sweeping side-parted, black hair, a mustache and the spout resembles a saluting arm. (Hitler image: History In A Hour/Flickr)
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That would go well with my Eva Braun coffee pot.
Only for show…
Heil have a cup please
Reich now?
$199.99 on eBay! That’s a bit reich!
I do nazi the resemblance
Definitely a product of the Nazi Partea
I once saw a pot that looked like Pol.
Love it
A storm in a teacup
Is that the final solution or will there be a redesign?
I asked the shop assistant “Where can I get one of these?” He told me to “head towards the back of the shop and take the third Reich.”
A kettle that looks like Hitler. I don’t see it.
Turn your phone sideways.
It’ll be as clear as day then…
It’s all to do with the handle of the kettle and the knob on the lid, comic hitler.
Should say look at the white background through the handle
Stevie Wonder can see the bloody resemblance!
Too soon Barry, too soon!!
Polar bear, step away from your device and have a look from a distance. It worked for me.
Now it just looks like Hitler laying on his side…
Looks like they’re in a bit of hot water over this…
How the hell did they come to that conclusion ?
Arbeit macht tay.
lets hope the tea party don’t see that kettle!
I’d say the designer got a little giggle when he realised. No better way to sell a few kettles though. You couldn’t buy advertisement like that.
Right, you know Henry Ford,as in Ford motors? Henry was the first non german to be inducted to the nazi party. Anyways, you know Fords car adverts on telly? The slogan “Go Further” ya, if you take out the T ( as in tea,model T ) in further,and swap the R and H around…what do you get?? Spooky shit there man!
Are you stoned?!!
I want one!!!!!
Jeez do people have nothing better to do than complain about a kettle?
They do indeed, Lee. For myself, I have been roaring at my cutlery drawer all morning. Much more worthwhile and less intrusive. That spatula is some bastard, it has to be said.
struggling to see the resemblence
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