Darn tootin'! Frankenberry and BooBerry are good too, but BooBerry turns your mouth blue.

Cap'n Crunch is only good if it has CrunchBerries in it.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Count Chocula? Wasn't that the sequel to Blacula?

I used to be able to chow down on Boo Berry like there was no tomorrow when I was a kid. Now if I eat too much sweet stuff in the morning I get sick to my stomach. In fact I'm not nearly as fond of sweets in general. I guess as we get o... ol... that word as time passes, our tastes change.

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I hear you. Those commercials always bothered me as a kid. They bother me as an adult as well, but now I know better why.

Actually, as an adult, I'm unhappy about advertising aimed at children in general. It's even relevant to this thread. Some would call my objections "nanny statism" or similar, but really, it's my responsibility to make decisions on behalf of minors in my care. (Currently none, but someday.) Children cannot legally consent. They are not competent to make decisions in their own best interest. This is why their parents and guardians hold that responsibility on their behalf.

When advertisers influence children to lobby for actions/purchases not in their best interests, they are literally setting my charges against me in an attempt to circumvent my personal responsibility and duty.

Advertising is far more relevant to the topic's premise ("Big Brother") than the banning of trans fat is.

If government seeks to protect my family from unfair or undue external influence, especially deceptive influence or outright fraud, it's not nanny-statism, it's doing their jobs, the one I pay taxes for. Providing common defense and redress against threats to my family. Just like fire departments, common health care, police services, etc.

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- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

Ugh, children's brainwashadvertising. Don't even get me started.

Lately whenever I'm babysitting my nephew, if I let him watch TV I always hit "mute" during the commercials. And I make sure to tell him, "it's not real, it's just TV!" as often as possible.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Official figures say that 2 million Britians are malnorished and many of these malnourished people are fat. I find this very easy to believe when I look at the diet of some people in the U.K.. One British chap I met said he didn't eat vegetables or fruit. He didn't appear at all healthy and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he were dead now.

(Note that the above story is personal anedote only and lends no statistical support to the contention that there are 2 million malnourished people in Britian.)

I think a lot of people could certainly benefit from education in what a healthy diet is and could benefit from support in making changes to their diet. I am not in favour of hitting people with truncheons for eating unhealthily or jail sentences for not eating vegetables.

I am in favour of visible warning lables on food of low nutritional value such as chips, biscuits, soft drinks, cakes, candy and so on. I don't think anyone should be punished for ignoring those lables.

Government agencies must spend their whole budget or it will be cut. The FDA will continue to find things wrong with our food until we die of malnutrition because nothing is safe to eat.

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The FDA has never been able to make people stop eating junk food. The FDA, FBI, CIA and IRS combined couldn't do it.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

That would be the Fifi Carabids, right? very scary people

Fifi Carabids? I went to the prom with her!

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

How does the CSPI (a non-profit organization, not a government entity) tell me what I can eat?

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So, you know?

Uh . . . what about us non-smokers? I'm perfectly happy to leave smokers alone as long as they leave me alone. I have no interest in making smoking illegal. However, I see no reason why I should be forced to smoke too. Not that long ago, it was impossible to avoid breathing cigarette smoke (and lots of it) unless you lived like a hermit. That was utterly unreasonable. Unfortunately, the nature of cigarette smoke is such that it is hard to contain.

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Disclaimer: Avatar is not an official NASA image and does not imply any specific interplanetary or interstellar capability.

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Damn, forgot salt.

I'm a believer in the six major food groups: Fat, sugar, salt, caffein, alcohol, and tobacco.

Our four weapons . . . .

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

CSPI doesn't have the authority to tell anyone what to eat. They are valuable, however, in the sense that they are counter the influence of industry to an extent.

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Intelligence may not be clearly defined, but you know stupid when you see it--Noclevername

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Except, of course, that restaurant owners who would like to have the whole place be a smoking area and let the non-smokers eat at the other place up the street were told they can't do that, either.

Trust me, the government passing laws controlling what you can and cannot eat is coming, and the acceptance of smoking bans has paved the way.

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Except that there are no laws telling people not to smoke, only regulating a few places where they can't.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

It would be easier to list the places outside of your car or home you are allowed to smoke these days.