The pig that ran away

The wolf that dropped into the cauldron was never a real wolf! In fact, it was a Santa-sheep-in-wolf-clothing coming down from the chimney to deliver presents to the good ones. Just as the pig in the brick house was about to celebrate the death of the "wolf", the real wolf suddenly barged in! Turns out that the wolf finally realised that the fastest way in a brick house was through the door and not through huffing-and-puffing. The wolf then, with little effort, gobbled up the last little pig and completed his stomach collection of the Three Little Pigs.

That's where the pig from McDonalds went. By now, everyone should have known about the case of the missing pig at McDonalds to some degree. Just in case you don't, here's a short summary of the incident.

McDonalds outlets in Singapore are selling Doraemon zodiac lucky charms for $2 each with every purchase of a set meal, in which proceeds will go to charity. However, the collectors of these charms with stumped when they saw the whole set:

Where did the pig go? Instead, it has been replaced by Cupid. For several days, there were much speculation and discussion from Singaporeans. One clever forumer even suggested that Cupid sounds like "cute pig" and thus can be considered as one of the 12 zodiac signs. Fortunately, McDonalds explained few days in that this move was done in order not to offend the Muslims and thus replaced it with the Cupid, reasoning that Valentine's Day also falls in February.

For several weeks, there has been much objection to this move. Collectors said that due to this change, they are unable to collect the whole set of zodiac Doraemon charms and thus make their collection incomplete. Muslims have also voiced out that they do not mind as this is not a food, but merely a soft toy and this is not non-halal. Some people have pointed out that this disrespects the Chinese zodiac, which has been around for many centuries.

Alas, McDonalds finally decides to rescue the pig from the wolf's tummy! McDonalds apologises for the action and states that the Pig will be available in mid April.


I guess that's good news to the collectors. What are your takes on this?