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Every autumn now we see the same rumor circulate on Facebook, asserting that the Royal British Legion will not be selling Remembrance Day poppies everywhere because some minority groups supposedly find the symbolic flowers offensive: The rumor initially appeared from the ether, absent links or even a shaky backstory explaining why the Royal British Legion might be limiting their sale of poppies in unspecified certain areas or why any minority groups might find the poppies offensive. (The distribution of such flowers is a tradition tied to Remembrance Day, observed on 11 November in the Commonwealth of Nations to honor soldiers who died in the line of duty.) Nonetheless, the claim spread like wildfire on social media, along with a measure of outrage at the imagined poppy ban enforcers. In a 27 September 2016 Facebook post, the Royal British Legion denied the claim had any truth to it: The rumor about offensive poppies is very much like many popular falsehoods spread in the UK and in the United States holding that unspecified groups have taken offense to a vast variety of patriotic items or gestures.
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