This is, of course, the only time I'll go to Meijer, but 24-hour grocery/discount/garden stores are made for folks just like me.
Anyway. Do you remember Lucky Charms? The Frosted Oat Cereal with the fun little marshmallow shapes? Hearts, Moons, Stars, and Clovers? I'll bet you didn't know that the original marshmallows in this Magically Delicious cereal were tiny bits of my favorite treat, Circus Peanuts. I didn't until I read this. Ahh, Circus Peanuts, is there nothing they can't do?
But back on the subject of Lucky Charms and Terror. Remember when the Lucky Charms mascot leprechaun guy (formally known as L.C. Leprechaun) looked like this? Kind of cute, with a sparkly magic spoon.
Have you seen him lately?
He jumped out and scared me while I waltzed down the cereal aisle. Whoa. Is it just me or does old LC look, kinda creepy evil in some way? He's looking in a magic mirror, which for a leprechaun is probably not so weird, but his face is just, well, scary.I think this would have scared the crap out of me as a kid. Granted I had/have an extremely active imagination, and barely made it through the boat-rowing-in-the-tunnel-scene from Willy Wonka...but this would have been Way Too Much. In fact, it still might be. Here's hoping I don't have nightmares about evil leprechauns tonight...
3 comments:
You are very attentive, Ms. Bee.
The new leprechaun is horrid! I hadn't noticed the new packaging but you are right, very creepy.
Libby, over at the Fig Newtons & Scotch blog, had a posting a while back about the Sun-Maid raisin lady being modernized and transmogrified into someone anorexic and scary looking. You can see both raisin women on their website:
http://www.sun-maid.com/
(sorry, I haven't figured out how leave a link in a comment)
Wish they would quit messing around with important food-related cultural icons. What is next, a buff Pillsbury dough boy? Oh dear, just checked out his website and that is scary too, it appears that the Pillsbury company has trademarked the word "love"?:
http://tinyurl.com/g2npr
Yikes. Creepy. Pretty glad I have resigned myself to eating "Roundy's" brand cereal knockoffs; although I guess the "Honey Squares" (Golden Grahams) and "Happy O's" (Cheerios) names are just as scary as the brand-name icons that look like they're on crystal meth.
Laundress: I checked out the new Sun-Maid Raisin Girl and she too is scary in that computer-generated-animation way. She looks like she is made from Silly Putty, or something. Also, they've certainly made her more multi-cultural, which isn't a bad thing, and skinnier, which I'm on the fence about. All this makes me think that I'm going as the Sun-Maid Gal next Halloween.
Nonanon: Happy O's! Now that is a name to wake up to! The ones I always like are the Cocoa Dyno-Bites, with the blue Kangaroo and Joey on the bag. Mmmm. Dyno Breakfast...
Post a Comment