Posted on 06/14/2007 6:47:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
Posted by Julia A. Seymour on June 14, 2007 - 14:17.
That’s right, a food police group has turned cereal killer. What's worse, the media don't see any foul play.
Fruit Loops cereal’s brightly colored mascot Toucan Sam, along with Sugar Smack’s Dig ‘Em and Rice Krispies’ Snap, Crackle and Pop are likely to be axed due to an agreement between Kellogg Company and the food police group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
“Early Show’s” Hannah Storm was happy about the announcement. She called getting rid of the popular cartoon figures a “great idea” on June 14.
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“[B]ecause you can’t even take your child to the grocery store because they’re clamoring for the products with characters on them. When are we going to see them disappear?” Storm asked correspondent Nancy Cordes.
NBC’s “Today” called the agreement to stop advertising cereals during children’s programming a “partnership,” but that’s like saying if I give my wallet to a mugger at gunpoint it was voluntary.
CSPI as well as the liberal Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and two parents threatened to sue Kellogg’s for marketing sugary cereals to kids. I have a question, who exactly should they be marketed to? The demographic of Sex and the City perhaps?
Kellogg’s told ABC’s “Good Morning America” the products that can’t be reformulated to meet the manufacturer’s self-imposed nutritional criteria for television commercials will be either marketed to an older group or they’ll stop advertising it altogether.
Which basically means the death of Toucan Sam and his friends. May they rest in peace.
Rush was talking about CAIR today and the influence they yield with only 1700 members. Then he went on to speculate that CSPI is 3 pasty white guys with a fax machine.
I LOVED the Post cartoon hour!!!
Right. Have they just thought of saying NO to their child. No you can not have that cereal.
Good grief show some parenting. Oh man what was I thinking they are liberals........
Lefties just want to take the joy out of everyone’s life.
What a sad and pathetic bunch and a waste of air.
Some people just like to go around peeing on trees.
Toucan Son of Sam.
Part of growing up is learning to except being told no. Something that those nuts at CSPI also need to learn.
What, the cereal killer?
I never bought sugar cereals when my kids were young. They got Cheerios (the plain kind, not “honeynut” or other flavors) and they liked it!
Now my grandkids, I like to get them all sugared up and hyper and then let their mom & dad deal with them.
Because they want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
When my now-adult son was two years old, he used to love “Tony Tigers” (Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes) for breakfast. I had an opportunity to accompany my husband on a six-week business trip and his Nana cared for him. When we returned, she had one question! “What are Tony Tigers?” Grrreat!!! LOL
Raspberry Red, Lemon Yellow, Orange Orange....
I think they added another color or two since I was a kid...maybe purple or green?
Now what about Lucky Charms? How’s a kid going to learn the colors of the rainbow?
Pink hearts, Orange Stars, Yellow Moons, Green Clovers, Blue Diamonds, and Purple Horseshoes....
Yeah, I know, Roy G. Biv....
Bad boys race our young girls but violet gives willingly, get some now.
Ah, an electrician, perhaps?
blAck, brOwn, red, orange, yellow, green, blUe, violet, gray, white...
the color coding on electrical resistors, says “Timid Virgins Make Dull Company.” But that’s as far as Dr. Crypton goes. What is “get some now?”
Everything they do is “f-ing ridiculous”.
Are toucans a protected species?
WTF is wrong with these people?
Get = Gold = ±5%
Some = Silver = ±10%
Now = None = ±20%
Now that I think about it, “Raspberry Red, Lemon Yellow, Orange Orange” wasn’t Fruit Loops at all...it was Trix...
silly rabbit....
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