Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Foods / Retail Blowin' Boston Creme Pie Up Your Skirt
Posted by Nicki Wood on Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM
People with kids: Do you find yourself continually having to make more and more specific rules? It'd be nice to be able to say, "Eat healthy food, and do it politely." But in practice, you have to make very detailed rulings: No more than one piece of cake. At least five bites of vegetable. Use your fork! Don't wipe your hands on your pants! Dinner must include some kind of protein. You may not eat ice cream for breakfast.
"No ice cream for breakfast" is a rule that somehow got bent with the purchase of Boston Creme Pie yogurt. Since when is it so difficult to get kids to eat sugary food that now it must also be dessert-flavored? Now there's a new rule: Yogurts that go into the grocery cart must be fruit-flavored.
So we bought Key Lime Pie! I sense a new rule coming.
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well, i'd be more concerned with plowing your kid with the aspartame that sweetens that fat free semi-disgusting "yogurt"...
i mean - even the fruit versions make me gag...
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The level of detail gets ridiculous sometimes, at least around our house. But those kids, they are masters at finding the loophole in what I've said, so I'm constantly trying to close those suckers up.
I've relented on the key lime pie because as far as I can tell, it's really just lime flavored. I do draw the line at chocolate, though.
How about a Yoplait-specific rule that you're not allowed to advertise with those two ninnies sitting around in spa robes saying stuff like "It's so good, it's like licking-Ashton-Kutcher's-armpit-while-shoe-shopping good."
Wait, no ice cream for breakfast? What's next? No brownies for breakfast! When I was younger I actually thought the reason why my mother made brownies at night was for breakfast in the morning, not just for dessert that night. I proudly continue to eat brownies/cookies for breakfast occasionally. I love being an adult.
But how are brownies, cookies, and cake really any different from donuts, pastries, pancakes, and waffles?
