Burger King uses sex to sell my daughter a kid’s meal

“Booty is booty,” said Sir Mix-a-Lot, insinuating that he doesn’t care the shape of his “baby’s back.” However his newest preference seems to be for the square, spongy, yellow variety. At least that’s what the “Burger King” would have us believe with the new Burger King kid’s meal commercials featuring the old-school rapper doing a modified rendition of his hit “Baby Got Back.”

It’s like MTV run amuck with girls waving around their enormous square butts to the beat of “I like square butts.” It looks like the same thing you’d see on any rap video sans handguns and 40’s. I’m going to go with–entirely inappropriate and a little freaky. Watch the offending ad below… read more

The snack that smiles back

Anyone that has grown up in the past 40 years will recall his or her memories of Pepperidge Farm’s Goldfish. They are the small, cheesy baked snack crackers cut into the shape of goldfish. Within the past decade, they’ve added “smiles” to the crackers and even trademarked the tagline “The snack that smiles back! Goldfish!”. Turning a blind eye to the whole concept of eating food that smiles, Goldfish has a following that rivals almost any candy bar or bubble gum.

So what is this magic that makes Goldfish so appealing? Part of it is the ingredients. Although a far cry from the healthier Cheerios cereal, Goldfish offer than tactile hand holding experience that young children need. They’re baked and packed with enough cheese flavoring to make you forget you’re eating anything that has flour in it. It’s easy to lay a dozen of these crackers onto a highchair tray and let the kids go wild. It also easy for an adult to devour twenty crackers at one sitting before thinking they’ve overeaten.

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