Quick, change the subject to something tame...
...like cannibalism.
So we always like to have some kind of healthy cereal (or a cereal that at least appears healthy, I'm honestly not that great at understanding nutritional information) around the house. I'm a big fan of almost all of the Kashi products, and we saw their cereal Mighty Bites, marketed toward kids, and thought we should try it. When I glanced at the box I thought, "Those cereal pieces look like little people, but no one in their right mind would make a food that looks like people, right???" We open it and sure enough they're shaped like little people. Does this seem strange to anyone else?
Every time I give them to Greta I think of the movie Soylent Green and the quote, "Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people!"
As an additional note, Mighty Bites are delicious.
Fran
Comments
#1
I am with you on this...I was at Trader Joe's today, and their "animal crackers" are actually cats.
They say Cat Cookies (for people) on the package.
They are yummy, but it bugs me a bit.
#2
Kind of reminds me of the movie Alive.
http://andyanderin.blogspot.com
#3
Sour Patch Kids and gingerbread men notwithstanding, it's definitely a valid point: people-shaped food is weird.
#4
Oh, man!
#5
sour patch kids
#6
Fran
Paige likes that cereal too. They are in fact pretty tasty! I'm not sure who decided they had to be in people form..it is weird!
#7
D'oh! You got me, George!
#8
Gingerbread men?
#9
Kimmie - Yeah, but we eat real animals all of the time, so it seems less strange to me to eat animal crackers than human-shaped cereal, but that's just me.
Shelley - When I said I'm "not great at understanding nutritional information" I meant that I'm actually not great at reading...or at reading at all. In other words, I can't read.
#10
Kashi IS soylent green, Fran. Didn't you read the ingredients?!
#11
It doesn't seem much different than eating Teddy Grahams. Or what about animal crackers. For some strange reason I enjoy eating the heads and legs off my animal crackers first. But then again, I'm also one to peel the chocolate off of the outside of a HoHo before I eat the middle.
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