Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What?
Raisin Bran ad: “With two scoops of raisins harvested at the peak of sweetness...”
Where the hell are these mythical raisin orchards? For that matter, how do you tell when a raisin is ripe? Or is Raisin Bran just a little more French than I had thought?
Ponder, my friends, ponder.
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What I wanted to know was, how big is a scoop exactly?
Good point: when did “scoop” become an acceptable unit of measure?
Every since those damn Republicans gutted the truth in labeling laws, that’s since when!!!
The sweetness of the raisin harvest is, I imagine, intended to refer to the grapes that the raisins came from.
I’m pretty sure that’s what they intended, too, but talking about raisin harvests still sounds strange to me. It would be like talking about the great dried banana harvest of ought six. Just doesn’t work.
Unless, again, you’re all French and stuff, in which case it makes perfect sense. But I’m not a raisin eating surrender monkey.
Ah, but raisin orchards can’t compare with the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957.
That is a beautiful hoax. I’ve never seen that before.