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The Internet is furious about the state of Reese’s Peanut Butter Christmas Trees

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:09PM EST

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Is nothing sacred anymore? It used to be that when you’d buy one of Reese’s special Peanut Butter Christmas Trees, you’d get a piece of candy that would bear a passing resemblance to some kind of tree… or at the very least, something that recognizably looked like an attempt to depict a tree. This year, however, it looks like Reese’s has been phoning it in and the Internet is not happy about it.

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Food blog Delish points out that there has been a lot of chatter on social media about the frankly sorry state of this year’s Reese’s Christmas Trees. In case you don’t know, the candies are supposed to look like this:

What Reese’s fans are seeing instead, however, are trees that look like this:

And this:

And this:

You get the idea.

Basically, it looks a lot like Reese’s decided to just make a bunch of its Peanut Butter Easter Egg candies and wrap them up in Christmas Tree packaging. All told, this looks like the biggest first-world crisis to hit the web ever since Internet users realized Amazon wasn’t going to sell them a 4K TV for 50 cents on Prime Day.

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.