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Left-Wing Food Group Wants to Whack Toucan Sam (Fruit Loops Cereal Cartoon Mascot)
http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | June 14, 2007 | Julia A.

Posted on 06/14/2007 6:47:18 PM PDT by lowbridge

Left-Wing Food Group Wants to Whack Toucan Sam

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.

Video (0:57): Real (1.55 MB) or Windows (1.82 MB), plus MP3 audio (275 kB).

“[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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foodnazis; foodpolice; fruitloops; toucansam
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1 posted on 06/14/2007 6:47:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
due to an agreement between Kellogg Company and the food police group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).

Corporate suicide.

Good riddance.

2 posted on 06/14/2007 6:49:39 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: lowbridge

Liberals - “Destroying America One Step At A Time”


3 posted on 06/14/2007 6:49:39 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Global warming? Hell, in Texas, we just call that "summer".)
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To: lowbridge
Waaaay back when I was a kid we'd see commercials for: "The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals..." and the animals would stampede across the TV screen. We loved that commercial, and the cereal, too!

Why do lefties always want to take the fun out of life?

4 posted on 06/14/2007 6:51:56 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (With an F, and an R, and an E, and a D, and an F-R-E-D...FRED!!!!!!!!)
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To: lowbridge

How f-ing ridiculous.


5 posted on 06/14/2007 6:53:53 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Conspiracy theorists are among the most egotistical people, but have the fewest reasons to be such.)
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I’m surprised a certain other group hasn’t complained yet about the product name itself. I mean, Fruit Loops ... come on now! :)


6 posted on 06/14/2007 6:54:46 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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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.

A dead give away that a lib is speaking.

7 posted on 06/14/2007 6:55:41 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: lowbridge

These are the people running the Democrat party these days and wanting to run your government and your life, too.


8 posted on 06/14/2007 6:58:19 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: lowbridge

If Kellogg’s is really that easily intimidated, then they deserve to suffer the consequences. I sure miss the old Sugar Pops ads, where they used to brag about being “shot with sugar, through and through.” Cowboys, guns and sugar — totally politically incorrect.


9 posted on 06/14/2007 6:58:30 PM PDT by speedy
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> Fruit Loops cereal’s brightly colored mascot Toucan Sam ...

Wait until the carbo Nazis learn about Guinness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Guinness_Toucan-ad.jpg


10 posted on 06/14/2007 6:59:48 PM PDT by Boundless (Legacy Media is hazardous to your mental health)
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On the bright side maybe we won’t see these proudcts advertised on TV and that will be less revenues for the MSM.


11 posted on 06/14/2007 7:00:50 PM PDT by bilhosty
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To: Theresawithanh
That cereal comercial was just a couple years before my time. My favorites were:


12 posted on 06/14/2007 7:01:05 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Theresawithanh

Because, like Satan, they are miserable and want us to be miserable.


13 posted on 06/14/2007 7:01:39 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Boundless
“Wait until the carbo Nazis learn about Guinness.”

Uncle Ralphie and his minions can’t touch ‘em; remember, “Guinness is good for you.”

14 posted on 06/14/2007 7:02:03 PM PDT by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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To: speedy

Take a second look. Kellog’s caved a long time ago. Sugar Pops have been Corn Pops for I don’t know how long.


15 posted on 06/14/2007 7:03:32 PM PDT by printhead
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To: lowbridge

What!!!?

You don’t remember, “Never say Froot Loops!”

Say, rather, “OOT-FRAY OOPS-LAY!!!”

Circa 1965.

;^)


16 posted on 06/14/2007 7:04:48 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: lowbridge
We can have lotsa fun finding new mascots for food products.


17 posted on 06/14/2007 7:05:02 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: lowbridge

This started decades ago when poor Quake was given an Aussie “makeover” because he was able to pound the tar out of the twit Quisp. Gee, I wonder what they would say about the cute little Rice Krinkles girl, or the pre-Dig’em Smakeroo Kids (who punched each other on the way to their bowl of Sugar Smacks). The Aussie Cowboy Quake (formerly super-strong miner) was ultimately displaced by the inane Quangaroos (orange cereal, bleah!)

The Kelloggs characters had a little more polish than the Post & Quaker ones, and Tony the Tiger HAS been marketed to adults. He, Snap/Crackle/Pop and Toucan Sam have stood the test of time. Quaker’s Cap’n Crunch and General Mills’ Trix Rabbit can compete in recognizeability with any of them. Uh ohhhhhh ... “Trix (sugar sweetened cereal) are for kids!” Hmmm... is General Mills marketing to kids with that slogan?


18 posted on 06/14/2007 7:05:36 PM PDT by sittnick (There is no salvation in politics.)
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19 posted on 06/14/2007 7:08:46 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: lowbridge
[B]ecause you can’t even take your child to the grocery store because they’re clamoring for the products with characters on them.

Kids clamor for stuff all the time. Because you can't enforce discipline and say no to your kids when necessary, everyone should accommodate you? Fascists.
20 posted on 06/14/2007 7:09:13 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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