Jericho: Road kill-a-no-go?
Really? They really have time for this? I mean, people are out there running dog pits and puppy mills and the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has time to worry about a candy made of vegetable products? Really?
What's next? No more Swedish Fish? Gummi Bears taboo? Are we going to see the last chocolate turtle sold to benefit some charitable organization? And, what about those cheezy, crunchy, crispy gold fish - are those smiling crackers going the way of the gooney?
I further don't understand why Kraft reacted to this at all. I mean, almost the entire Trolli line is animal in nature. Bears, worms, octopi - Kraft has just opened themselves up to the NJSPCA making more demands.
My advice to the NJSPCA would be worrying about states that allow people to eat anything they kill on the road and leave the kids to have their fun. If we see a rash of kids running over wild gummi animals, then we should worry.
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What's next? No more Swedish Fish? Gummi Bears taboo? Are we going to see the last chocolate turtle sold to benefit some charitable organization? And, what about those cheezy, crunchy, crispy gold fish - are those smiling crackers going the way of the gooney?
I further don't understand why Kraft reacted to this at all. I mean, almost the entire Trolli line is animal in nature. Bears, worms, octopi - Kraft has just opened themselves up to the NJSPCA making more demands.
My advice to the NJSPCA would be worrying about states that allow people to eat anything they kill on the road and leave the kids to have their fun. If we see a rash of kids running over wild gummi animals, then we should worry.
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posted by Jericho Brown at 2/25/2005 11:41:00 AM
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MMMMMMMMM....roadkill.
Hmmm. And I thought Garbage Pail Kids, heavy metal and/or Dungeons and Dragons that was going to destroy the youth of America.
Well, you know we're all going to Hell for being gamers, so we might as well enjoy and have fun while we can. If they really want to piss people off they should come up with gummies that are "bubba" hunters and various animals with gunshot wounds.
Yeish. This sounds like something my friend Neta would support. She sent me a Valentine's Day card from PETA. FUCK PETA. They're a bunch of fucking terrorists.
Actually, I just read the article and it's not completly off-the-wall. I mean, there are FAR more important things in life to worry about than gummy snakes, but I can see how gummy snakes with tire tracks would foster cruelity to animals. IE- "it's funny to run over animals!" I know some people that go out of their way to run over squirrles and pidgeons in the street. They would find this hillarious. I just don't think it is, really.
Think of all the other animal shaped food out there that we merrily munch the heads off of or nibble the ears from - is PETA and the rest of these activists going to start claiming that we are fostering crulety to animals because we give out chocolate rabbits at Easter? You know people who do evil to animals - they did it long before this candy came out. I know people who would never hurt a fly - but that did pretty gruesome "experiments" to those marshmallow Peeps that come out at Easter. I think kids are going to be cruel or kind depending on upbringing and personality and "gummi roadkill" should be taken with a sense of humor - not moral outrage.
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