This is another straight from my own life. Inspired by a quick twitter conversation I had with @supertemps, I recalled the moment when I realized just how silly the foodservice/retail field has become. I work for a snack food company as a designer. I designed a box for a cinnamon-stuffed pretzel treat… the hero image featuring only the product and a strawberry on a plate. The necessary disclaimer: “serving suggestion”. Not just for the strawberry, but for the plate as well. Apparently, people are dumb enough to think they’re getting a plate AND a single strawberry in the box to go with their pretzel. And thus, my life changed forever. Well, not really, but I rolled my eyes repeatedly.
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I don’t know which I did like more…. false advertising, or all the “dang people are so stupid” disclaimers…..
(^U^)
sorry… sleepy typing….
I don’t know which I don’t dis-like more………
we’re all victims of sleepy typing from time to time. they should put a disclaimer on the keyboard.
Disclaimers have to be the Kryptonite of marketing. Simple intelligence would tell people that a box of pretzels has pretzels, and not a strawberry much less a plate. Sadly though, that’s the reason they have to put on Preparation-H cream, “Do not ingest orally”. Sad, sad world.
P.S. That sure is a nice looking tree behind all those bubbles in Panel 2. #Treeaccessories 🙂
I have to admit, I did draw up a kick-butt tree behind those balloons. Only a select few have had the pleasure of witnessing it’s glory. ;0)
Did it also come with a bowl, a spoon, and a smiling kid?
Why do we never get what we’re promised?!
CURSES! *shakes fist* LOL
Who are these companies to suggest I eat a strawberry with my pretzel anyway? HUH?!
And I’ll put the pretzel on a damned napkin too while I’m at it.
The NERVE of some companies! Making suggestions of what to eat your damned pretzel with. For shame!
Oh, wait, that’s me.
(for the record, it’s a cinnamon/sugar filled pretzel, it’s damn good, and we market it for breakfast. hence the strawberry. Makes it healthy! (NOT.))
i work in the hospitality industry. i usually get the “well what about me” mentally challenged people.
ooooh-ho, yeah, I’m sure. makes it hard to like mankind all that much.
Reminds me of those stickers of gnarled limbs you see on lawnmowers …
Grass goes in tall … comes out short … I’m no mathematician, but … 🙂
God, there are some funny warning signs out there… with the little road sign people getting dismembered…
The disclaimers, for the most part, are not even for the stupid people.. but for the heartless and greedy who try to find easy ways to get money. Companies have to protect themselves.
Another misleading one is serving size. Some small bags of chips have 2-3 servings per bag. Huh?
Oh and is that…”gasp”…a pay phone? They still have those? 😉
Nice tree – saw that the other day too!
oh, yes.. I know about the serving size debacle. Been there… we sell these little pretzel nuggets filled with cheeses and such. very tasty. and very bad for you. the serving size is two. TWO. Please, no one eats just 2. But we have to make it two for various reasons in this industry.
I enjoyed drawing the pay phone. I find it ironically funny when the aliens have to resort to “old technology”, must be ancient to them! Part of the reason Zorphie uses a clipboard….