"Which would you rather give your kids?"Is there a door number 3?
Why would I want to give my kids horrific, heavily processed, lowest common denominator nutrition, food garbage?
I love this ad though and truly admire their chutzpah.
The ad's premise is simple. Totino's pizza rolls have lots of scary sounding ingredients in their cheese so you should feed your kids Bagel Bites instead.
I decided to look up Bagel Bites' ingredient list and found out that while its cheese only has 4 ingredients the rest of this frankenfood has 37!,
"Bleached Wheat Flour, Water, Mozzarella Cheese (Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes)Tomato Puree (Tomato Paste, Water)Pepperoni (Pork, Beef, Salt, Spices, Water, Dextrose, Seasonings [Oleoresin of Paprika, Natural Spice Extractives, BHA, BHT, Citric Acid]Lactic Acid Starter Culture, Sodium Nitrate)2% or Less of: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Modified Cornstarch, Salt, Soybean Oil, Yeast, Whey Protein Concentrate (Milk)Nonfat Milk, Flavor Enhancer (Potassium Chloride, Ammonium Chloride, Yeast Extract, Maltodextrin [Corn]Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Calcium Lactate, Natural Flavor)Methylcellulose, Citric Acid, Red Pepper, Natural Flavor, Dough Conditioner (Ascorbic Acid)Enzymes.Delicious.
Oh, and guess what. Bagel Bites have 21% more sodium and 250% more sugar than Totino's Pizza Rolls.
Of course making an argument that Bagel Bites are better to give your kids than Totinos or vice-versa is like making the argument that it'd be better to get kicked in the nuts than get punched in the nuts.
Don't buy your kids either!
Make them actual food.
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Flavour enhancer? Yummmmm
ReplyDeleteAnd that's the reason for a good sense of humor...otherwise you'd cry.
ReplyDeleteFor a good laugh about the Western diet, check out these videos from SNL and The Onion - http://bit.ly/1F6z48
On a side note Yoni, it seems like all of us are "preaching to the choir". A small percentage of folks get it and the others do not care.
Um, how hard is it to put some *actual* cheese on an *actual* bagel? Probably cheaper too!
ReplyDeleteNearly spit out my iced tea, reading the ingredients for bagel bites, no kidding. I mean, that's just not even false advertising, it's outright lying. There's practically a chemical factory's worth of chemicals in those bagel bites! I don't even...
ReplyDeletescrew u guys they both rock. i will eat them in the same mouthfull.
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