A Florida woman was apparently so upset with candy maker Hershey’s that she filed a lawsuit seeking $5 million.
Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese’s products don’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers, specifically the parent brand’s Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy.
The woman’s lawsuit claims Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and says that the actual product has no Jack O’lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts.
She added the same for the brand’s peanut butter footballs and bats, as well as the white chocolate ghosts.
The suit says Kelly purchased a bag of peanut butter pumpkins for $4.49 at an Aldi in late October 2023 under the belief “that the product contained a cute-looking carving of a pumpkin’s mouth and eyes as pictured on the product packaging,” according to the suit.
Another photo in the suit shows a candy football with no carved lines for football stitching, CBS News reported.
“Looks like eggs,” words on the picture read.
“Plaintiff and the members of the Class have been aggrieved by Defendant’s unfair and deceptive practices,” the suit reads. “They purchased the Products with the reasonable expectation that the Products would look similar to the pictures displayed on the Products’ packaging.”
