Globally renowned bakery gets it wrong with Oscar Pistorius meme cookies

Oscar Meme Cookies

Internationally renowned Charly’s Bakery sparked outrage on Twitter today after it tweeted a picture showing a range of cookies based on Oscar Pistorius memes.

The Paralympic gold medalist and Olympic athlete is about to go on trial for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013. As social media, which played a massive role in coverage of Pistorius’ bail hearing, once again turns its attention to the case, the bakery took the opportunity to post a picture of the cookies.

The wording of the tweet suggests that it may well have been courting controversy with the image:

Charlys Bakery

The backlash against the bakery, which bills its cakes as “mucking afazing”, was pretty intense:

Charly’s, which is the star of reality TV show Charly’s Cake Angels, then apologised:

That however only seemed to make things worse:

The bakery later tried to explain the motivation behind making the cookies.

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