Messages from readers
like the ones below
make Boo Berry cry. |
"Dear schliefkevision,
You have disgusted me, possibly beyond
oyster cracker disgust.
Not quite, but close. I have not eaten a bowl of cereal since
2nd grade. It's not so much the sugary, crunchy goodness I am
against, it's the soggy mess that crunch turns into when it is
soaked in a liquid squeezed from a cows teat. Nonetheless, a
feat worth documentation, I am just sorry I e-witnessed it.
Udderly disgusted,
C.G.""Ugh. You're more
of a man than me. I could never handle that crap. I like
my cereal like I like my women--square, brown, and full of soy
milk... Umm... Never mind. I'm trying to say I like Wheat Chex."
There was also this one word
response: "Ick"
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SCHLIEFKEVISION READERS REPLY...
GROSS IS NOT THE WORD
November 1, 2004 - Apparently, some people out there don't
know how to have a good time. My story about
eating a box of Boo Berry in
one sitting touched some nerves, and surprisingly, the least
shocking response came from dear old Mom, who chastised me for my
'feast or famine diet' and a more balanced eating schedule would
cure me of my self imposed stomach aches. More motherly advice
was passed along in the form of a question, "Perhaps you're eating
too fast."Of course, the heavy hitters appear on the left,
below the newly designed Boo Berry, which drew its own share of
negative reviews. A
google image search on Boo Berry
shows what sugar ghostly goodness was.
But enough dancing around the issue, the very man whose near
violent disgust over a childhood story prompted documenting the
Oyster
Cracker Sandwich story
left a shocking impression on my little bones. Backed up by a
one word reply from his wife ('Ick"), I never realized reveling in
sophomoric food behavior
could stir such emotions in people.
At least direct criticism of the cereal was left out of the fray,
mostly. One reader asked if Boo Berry actually contained
'oats'. A conservative reader logged his comments by preferring the
button up no-nonsense of Wheat Chex over crass, sweetened faux
marshmallows floating in blue milk.
I will admit blue foods freak me out. A few years ago when
America's lust for cheap, preprocessed foods started hitting its
stride full on, blue food products became all the rage. While
American obesity rates increase at 60%,
food manufacturers
actually started selling
colored ketchup, and
blue and chocolate french, err, freedom fries. Boo Berry
always rose above the fray, as its blueness neither bothered me or
was even questioned. The cereal is blueberry flavored, so
being blue only makes
sense, and besides, the Boo Berry himself carried the same bluish
haze around his cartoonish being. |
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