(insert obligatory "forgive me, but I've been busy with the new website and please GO THERE and print off 3000 coupons from my sidebar so I can make $.14 andby the way, things have been pretty good around here, or at least, boring enough that I don't want to blog about it, and the one thing I DO want to blog about I can't because I think one of my neighbors reads my blog and it involves him/her and my pissed-offedness at him/her and I don't want a shitstorm on the street and I think that I have perfected the art of the Rambling-Run-On-Sentence)
Anyway....
Have you joined the Internet brouhaha (2nd post down, entitled "Amazing"...then Google "Lego Fruit Snacks" to see how people are completely losing their shit over this) over the latest Kellogg's plot to kill our children? Have you voiced your outrage? Have you told your store to pull this fruit-snack-o-death?
Then I have to ask....are you (or your kids) that fucking stupid?
Do Pepperidge Farm Goldfish have your kids digging in the fish tank at Petco for a snack? Do Teddy Grahams have them chewing on their favorite stuffed animal? Do Dino-Nuggets have them gnawing on a bone at the Museum of Natural Science dinosaur display? Do Gummy Worms have them digging up your rosebushes like a stoned guy in search of Doritoes?
No? then why do you think that congealed high-fructose corn syrup that vaguely resembles a Lego is going to suddenly cause an epidemic of children munching on their toys?
(oh - and here's a little piece of info...perhaps we were a "test area" and got them earlier than the rest of the country, but I bought these things almost a year ago...and even my then-1-year old didn't see them as free license to chow down on the Lego SpongeBob Chumbucket at my sister's house)
So let's look at 4 basic points:
- children who are so young that they want to put everything in their mouth are too young to be around swallowable Legos in the first place. Oh - they have an older brother who likes Legos? not Kelloggs fault if you can't put those Legos out of reach of your younger child.
- older children who are so stupid that they want to put everything in their mouth are too stupid to be around swallowable Lego's in the first place. Oh - they have an smarter brother who likes Lego's? not Kelloggs fault if you can't put those Lego's out of reach of your dumber child.
- Children who are too young to know what they should and should not put in their mouth are probably too young to be eating fruit snacks in the first place! Fruit snacks ARE NOT FRUIT. When they are too young to scream "I WANT CEREAL STRAWS" in the middle of Costco, you don't need to be giving them crap & chemicals to appease them. That usually doesn't hit until they are 3. And if by 3 they still don't realize that Lego's are not food, then please see #2
- See that picture of the Legos on the box? The picture that looks exactly like a real Lego with the sharp corners and brilliant colors? Yeah - the fruit snacks look nothing like that.
So while the Internet Moms whine and moan about how Kellogg's is trying to hurt their child and quite a few people are already plotting their lawsuit against Kellogg's, let's not forget one basic and very important fact:
If you are that upset about them, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THEM!
daisybug
Amen Sistah! 😀
Mr Lady
I loved these when I saw them come out. I haven't heard about the shit storm (but don't think I won't go looking for it NOW) but I kinda want to go buy 8 thousand boxes and parade around the streets feeding them to my kids.
Darla @ UltraBeautyBoutique
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't know which part is funnier the comment about you not wanting to piss off your neighbor or this stupid upset over food.
I just want to know why parents are feeding their kids all this sugar in the first place.
Darla @ UltraBeautyBoutique
What's "AMAZING" is that person actually thinks those are FRUIT snacks. They are SUGAR snacks.
Here are the ingredients, looks like the joke is on "AMAZING". Succah.
CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, APPLE PUREE CONCENTRATE, WATER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, GELATIN, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, COLOR ADDED, HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL†, CARNAUBA WAX, YELLOW #5, RED #40, SODIUM CITRATE, BLUE #1.
†LESS THAN 0.5g TRANS FAT PER SERVING
Maria
You know what? I agree with the uproar. My girls don't put things in their mouths, but I can see how that would be come a problem.
Distinguishing between candy and not candy is hard enough based on just colors alone. To have them look alike? I can see bad things happening, and I think Kellogg's should have thought about that before they put them on the market.
My only issue with the protesters is that they don't have to worry about it if they don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
daisybug
I don't think they really DO look alike. Usually "fruit" snacks all look like big ol' blobs - and nothing like what they are supposed to look like. Just ask ds who was completely irked at age four when he discovered that the car snacks look exactly like the shark snacks.
Basically it works like this - if I tell you it is candy(or food)- it is. If I don't - then keep it out of your mouth. If your kid isn't old enough to figure out the difference he or she likely shouldn't be playing with legos anyway - choking hazard and all that. And again - if you don't like the product - don't buy it!