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Keefy
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03-14-2003 12:01 PM ET (US)
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Not really that new, "fun" food has been around for kids since alphabet soup.
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| xradiographer
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03-14-2003 12:08 PM ET (US)
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Kids don't buy enough products, yet.
Coca-cola flavored baby foods, that's what we REALLY need....
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| FuttBuck
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03-14-2003 12:29 PM ET (US)
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Why not cut to the chase and just knock kids teeth out with a hammer?
Make that a bright red and yellow hammer with GAP KIDS printed along the side.
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| ernie
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03-14-2003 12:33 PM ET (US)
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Edited by author 03-14-2003 12:34 PM
I think the most disturbing thing about the high dye content in these novelty colored foods like the ketchup is that the color persists until the very end, if you know what I mean. Not to be gross but it can be shocking if you're used to "earth tones" in the bowl.
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| Red Headed Ba*d
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03-14-2003 12:50 PM ET (US)
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Any parent who has to resort to these extremes to get their child to eat "healthy" food is not doing their job. Barring any food allergies or intolerances, any parent can get their child to eat their veggies simply by restricting their access to junk. (Yes, that includes restricting their access to money to buy junk.)
No matter how much they howl, stomp, shriek and carry on, any child will ultimately eat peas rather than go hungry for more than a day or two. And any parent who rather let their child embark on a lifetime of illness and obesity rather than go hungry for any length of time has not got their priorities straight.
If food were sex, this crap would be masturbation.
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| cypherpunks
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03-14-2003 01:19 PM ET (US)
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Beats me what's "extreme" about kid-oriented food that's fun to eat and healthy. It's a pretty far-fetched jump from neon salad dressing to a lifetime of illness and obesity.
But I'm not sure I'd consider masturbation particularly unhealthy either. Someone has issues, I think.
(As for the hammer, I doubt teal ketchup is any worse for teeth than red, so I'm not sure I follow at all.)
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| Scott Underwood
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03-14-2003 01:41 PM ET (US)
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Sentences with the phrases "any parent who" and "any child will" carry no weight with, well, any actual parent with experience raising any actual child.
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| boingboing addict
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03-14-2003 02:00 PM ET (US)
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i've had the smiley face shaped french fries. they were good.
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| ham salad
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03-14-2003 02:35 PM ET (US)
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Eww.
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| Eli the Bearded
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03-14-2003 03:07 PM ET (US)
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And processing food beyond all recognition is supposed to be
healthy? I've had homemade "french fries" made from satsuma
(asian) sweet potatoes. They were good. They are simple:
sweet potatoes, oil, salt, pepper.
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| Craniac
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03-14-2003 03:30 PM ET (US)
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People get more self-righteous about telling how to parent than they do with touting open source software.
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