King cake baby too lewd for Facebook? Post violation for nudity leaves company 'shocked

Wow, so this is where we are as a society. Banning king cake baby’s



“Raw, uncensored king cake babies are not suitable for Facebook advertisements, one New Orleans-area marketing firm discovered to its ire this week. But it's not taking this affront to Mardi Gras tradition lying down.

King Cake Snob is a competition run annually by Innovative Advertising, a Mandeville-based company, which ranks king cakes from across the region. As part of its usual marketing push, the group tried to post sponsored Facebook ads featuring tiny baby dolls, the totems traditionally found in the classic Carnival treat. “

We are shocked that Facebook would censor the king cake baby, one of the quintessential traditions of the Mardi Gras culture," Jay Connaughton, managing partner of Innovative Advertising, said in a post on the site addressing Facebook's decision. "Obviously the folks at Facebook have never tasted the sweet deliciousness of a traditional or filled king cake. If they had, they would understand the deep passion that runs in Louisiana for king cakes of all varieties, and the little babies that live inside them."

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