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Recently I saw a commercial for the General Mills cereal "Lucky Charms". The commercial showed Lucky [Lucky Charms Spokesperson] making the marshmallows that are contained in boxes of Lucky Charms bigger. Then at the end of the commercial Lucky said, "We may need bigger spoons!" I then thought to myself, "I haven't had Lucky Charms in awhile. Maybe I should go buy some." After returning home with a box that on the front said, "Bigger Marshmallows" I broke the seal and tore open the bag inside and poured the cereal into bowl. I looked at the marshmallows. They had barley changed in size. Not only that but I did not need a bigger spoon to eat them. Therefore another dream is crushed by corporate America.

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Recently I saw a commercial for the General Mills cereal "Lucky Charms". The commercial showed Lucky [Lucky Charms Spokesperson] making the marshmallows that are contained in boxes of Lucky Charms bigger. Then at the end of the commercial Lucky said, "We may need bigger spoons!" I then thought to myself, "I haven't had Lucky Charms in awhile. Maybe I should go buy some." After returning home with a box that on the front said, "Bigger Marshmallows" I broke the seal and tore open the bag inside and poured the cereal into bowl. I looked at the marshmallows. They had barley changed in size. Not only that but I did not need a bigger spoon to eat them. Therefore another dream is crushed by corporate America.

Yah, its kinda like when I watch "Knight Rider" or the "A-team" re-runs, and I ralize that the show isnt nearly as cool as it used to be when I was a kid.

Sigh.

your thread will soon be locked, for it will be said to be spamReally? Who said that? That was fast.

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Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeeeep.

Crash team, stat! We need to get a sense of humour transplanted into this one straight away! Hurry, we're losing them!

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Lucky Charms marshmallows are wonderful things! I think I survived on them throughout college.

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Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeeeep.

Crash team, stat! We need to get a sense of humour transplanted into this one straight away! Hurry, we're losing them!

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.


What makes you think that you are allowed to have a sense of humour here :!:

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No, he has a point. I used to eat Lucky Charms when I was a little kid, but I stopped after they reduced the number of marshmallows. So it's not just the size where people are getting scammed. People have been getting fewer marshmallows since the mid-1990s.

Well, you know what sucks even more? WE used to have Lucky Charms here in good ol Blighty, but I haven't seen them for YEEEEEEEARS

I think as long as we are discussing something instead of just ramming words together or handing each other virtual beers, we'll be fine.

Cause I have a lot to say about cereal, dammit.

What I really want to know is what qualifies those little puffs in the Lucky Charms as marshmellows? Sugar candy maybe, but really-marshmellows?

Related to the ad brought up at first-since when did cereal size relate to taste, is it the Honeycomb/Grape Nuts cunundrum? Honeycomb's big big taste relates to Grape Nuts tasting like gravel?

More to come on the nature of spokesthings and their relation to access to the cereal (Lucky and Fred Flintstone won't share thier cereals, the Trix rabbit isn't allowed to eat his.)

What I really want to know is what qualifies those little puffs in the Lucky Charms as marshmellows? Sugar candy maybe, but really-marshmellows?


The man makes a good point, it's not exactly like you can toast them over a bonfire.

Speaking of portion sizes, I saw Supersize Me last night. Let me just say, the diet started about 20 minutes into the film, when the subject of the experiment--Morgan Spurlock--puked while trying to finish a supersized Double Quarter Pounder meal.

I don't eat fast food much anyway--not after reading Fast Food Nation--but seeing what happened to this guy over 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald's meals just blew my mind. He went from 185 to 210 in a month. He gave himself liver damage. All three of his doctors told him to stop the experiment after 22 days, but he finished the 30 day experiment. They were more blown away than Spurlock was.

As Dennis Hopper once said in a Nike commercial--"Baaaaaad stuff, man."

is reminded of the rejected cartoons:

my spoon is too big!

my spoon is too big!


i am a banana!


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