{"id":114,"date":"2005-04-19T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=114"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:35:35","slug":"food-fright-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Food Fright, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/foodfright-05.jpg\" alt=\"Food Fright Part 5\" border=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This may be the best candidate for the title of Food Fright I have encountered to date. After all, there&#8217;s so very much to be frightened of here; the nausea that comes from witnessing yet another spurious Star Wars product tie-in; the spectre of individual oat molecules doped with a thousand times their weight in sugar; and the horrible yet all-too-real possibility that the only thing that will suck worse than the cereal itself is the movie from whence it gets its name.<\/p>\n<p>What disturbed me most when I first spotted the box on the shelf at my local grocery store, however, was the expression on Yoda&#8217;s face. I think the designers were trying for a look of steely resolve. To me, though, the wise old gnome appears to be in a state of high piss-off. He looks like they took the shot just before he vaulted over the cereal bowl and pummelled the photographer. &#8220;Keep you away from my cereal, or kick your ass I will, mm, yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stick to oatmeal. Not only is it healthier, the Quaker Oats guy seems a tad more even-keeled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the best candidate for the title of Food Fright I have encountered to date. After all, there&#8217;s so very much to be frightened of here; the nausea that comes from witnessing yet another spurious Star Wars product tie-in; the spectre of individual oat molecules doped with a thousand times their weight in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-fright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}