I’d like to have a chat with the person who thought this was a good idea:
(Do you think there are cereal executives? Someone in a power suit whose business card reads “Executive in Charge of Fruity Pebbles”?)
Who is this supposed to appeal to? Four-year-olds who watch CSI: Miami or stoned teenagers with the munchies? I didn’t notice the box when I bought the cereal; I only noticed after I had poured myself a bowl and looked down and saw this:
Here, let me zoom in for you:
Why are there fingerprints on my cereal?!? This is weird, right? It’s not just me? To me, cereal that’s been touched all over doesn’t sound very appetizing. Plus, if the police are dusting for fingerprints, there’s probably a sheet over a dead body close by. At least, that’s what years of watching Law & Order have taught me.
Who knew that all this time we’ve been wasting the blank canvas of our Cinnamon Toast Crunch, when it could have been teaching our kids the three different ridge patterns of fingerprints?
(Actually, I already knew that even before I ate the cereal. Yeah, that’s right, Ned earned the fingerprinting merit badge.)
I, for one, will sleep easier tonight knowing that thousands of future Homeland Security Agents got their inspiration from their bowl of cereal this morning.
Plus, I have to admit, the Cinnamon Toast Crunch was pretty damn good, creepy fingerprints and all.
Normally I’m a fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, very close to perfection as far as milk, cereal and sugar are concerned. I’m staying away from this one. Food that looks like dirty strangers have been pawing it? Maybe if they were elf fingerprints but Cinnamon Toast Crunch is made by bakers and this looks like it was made by lousy bakers (or lousey?).
By: t.n. trap on March 28, 2008
at 2:26 pm
Ned, you really need to keep this very quiet, because if my husband finds out that there is something that combines cinnamony/sugary/crispy goodness with the nuts and bolts of crime investigation? He’ll have us on the next flight out to the US.
I, however, am vehemently opposed to FINGERPRINTS on my food. Bleah.
By: wry on March 29, 2008
at 5:05 pm
It honestly just looks gross to me. Fingerprints or not.
By: Craig on March 30, 2008
at 5:02 pm
Trap– Totally agreed. Although, I don’t know if I’d feel any better about it if it were Cocoa Krispies and they were supposed to Snap’s fingerprints. “Who killed
Crackle? Who, who? Who, who?”
Wry– Your husband obviously has great taste. I’d also like to testify that although the U.S. is currently at the fore-front of breakfast cereal technology, we are risking becoming stagnant. I mean, what’s the last great, new cereal to come out? I mean, we still have cereal tie-ins to the Flintstones for God’s sake!
Oh Craig! Knowest thou not the combination of cinnamon, and toast, and crunch? They’re baking up a bunch! And it is indeed delicious. Yeah, I may or may not have just bought a Costco double-box of these. Maybe I should slow down.
Also, home photography of cereal isn’t going to be the most appetizing. I think that’s why they use white glue instead of milk for the pictures on the front of the box.
By: NFlanders on March 30, 2008
at 7:26 pm
I just don’t like sweet cereals. I go for grape nuts, granola, or shredded wheat. They taste better.
By: Craig on March 31, 2008
at 12:21 am
Well, you are definitely going to live longer than me. If you can call that living.
By: NFlanders on March 31, 2008
at 8:29 pm
me gusta la foto mas en caricartura
By: nancy on September 17, 2011
at 5:22 pm