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Was eating some off-brand cheese puffs I recently bought at the dollar store...



Look, I don't need your pity, okay?



...Anyway, I happened to notice a little figure on the bag, a wedge of cheese with arms and a face, who was identified as 'Reggie Wedgie.'  He was proclaiming, "Yum!"



This is so deeply wrong on so many different levels.



First, of course, there is the fact that a 'wedgie' has nothing whatsoever to do with actual wedges of cheese and is a thoroughly unappetizing concept.  Then there's the fact Reggie is urging us to consume himself and/or his brethren, making him at best a sell-out and a traitor to his kind and at worst dangerously unbalanced and a danger to himself and others.  One has to admit, however, he does look a bit sheepish about it.   view

Was eating some off-brand cheese puffs I recently bought at the dollar store...



Look, I don't need your pity, okay?



...Anyway, I happened to notice a little figure on the bag, a wedge of cheese with arms and a face, who was identified as 'Reggie Wedgie.'  He was proclaiming, "Yum!"



This is so deeply wrong on so many different levels.



First, of course, there is the fact that a 'wedgie' has nothing whatsoever to do with actual wedges of cheese and is a thoroughly unappetizing concept.  Then there's the fact Reggie is urging us to consume himself and/or his brethren, making him at best a sell-out and a traitor to his kind and at worst dangerously unbalanced and a danger to himself and others.  One has to admit, however, he does look a bit sheepish about it.   view

They were okay.  Not particularly delectible, but considering I've had cheese puffs that taste like styrofoam peanuts, not bad.  I finished the bag.  view

I bet they were better than the Brown Toe Flavored Doritos:



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WTH????   view

The concept of the food items urging us to eat them has always been a thorn in my side.  I find it particularly disturbing in the case of barbecue restaurants.  I've seen signs of happy pigs preparing to be put on the spit, or EATING the barbecue (cannibalism!), and I always wondered how they could be so happy, beckoning us to participate in their impending doom.  And as you said, the possibility that our porcine spokesperson may actually have turned state's evidence to save himself from the fiery pit, well, that's even MORE disturbing.  

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I bet they were better than the Brown Toe Flavored Doritos:



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