Editing Snickers (section)

===Super Bowl XLI commercial===
On February 4, 2007, during [[Super Bowl XLI]], Snickers commercials aired. This resulted in complaints by gay and lesbian groups against the maker of the candy bar, Masterfoods USA of [[Hackettstown, New Jersey]], a division of [[Mars, Incorporated]]. The commercial showed a pair of auto mechanics accidentally kissing while sharing a Snickers bar. After quickly pulling away, one mechanic sheepishly says, "I think we just accidentally kissed.", and another mechanic frantically exclaims, "Quick! Do something manly!" and in three of the four versions, they do so mostly in the form of injury, including tearing out chest hair, striking each other with a very large [[pipe wrench]], and drinking [[motor oil]] and [[windshield washer fluid]]. In the fourth version, however, a third mechanic shows up and asks "Is there room for three in this [[The Love Boat|Love Boat]]?"

Complaints were lodged against Masterfoods that the ads were [[homophobia|homophobic]]. [[Human Rights Campaign]] president [[Joe Solmonese]] is quoted as saying, "This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country."<ref name="playground">[https://www.foxnews.com/story/snickers-ad-of-men-accidentally-kissing-pulled-after-complaints-from-gay-groups Snickers Ad of Men Accidentally Kissing Pulled After Complaints From Gay Groups], FOX Business. Article retrieved October 17, 2007.</ref>

[[Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]] (GLAAD) president [[Neil Giuliano]] said "That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable." Masterfoods has since pulled the ads and the website.<ref name="playground" /><ref>[http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6446946?MSNHPHMA Super Bowl Controversy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208030533/http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6446946?MSNHPHMA |date=February 8, 2007 }}, FOX sports. Article retrieved February 6, 2007.</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Thulasi Srikanthan |url=https://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/178962 |title=entertainment {{pipe}} Snickers bicker feeds ad flap |work=TheStar.com |date=February 7, 2007 |access-date=June 16, 2009 | location=Toronto}}</ref>