A journalist is regretting his joking tweet about giving chocolate covered Brussels sprouts to children this Halloween after it went viral and sparked outrage on social media.
The casual tweet has been liked 11,000 times and retweeted 9,200 times as well as generating a number of vitrolic replies.
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And of course media outlets picked up on the fiasco.
In an attempt to calm the outrage the poor man felt compelled to pin a disclaimer tweet to the top of his profile.
Although somehow we reckon he managed to escape the incident unscathed and with his sense of humour intact.