For generations now, the grocery store tantrum has marked a rite of passage for parents. Somewhere in the snack aisle, a clenched-jaw parent is watching a child writhe in agony over a cardboard box with a cartoon character on it.Hmmm...
Today, researchers from Yale University announced the results of a small study which confirmed that, to children at least, food that's marketed with cartoons tastes better.
Forty children from the New Haven, Conn., area were asked to do a taste test of gummy fruit snacks, graham crackers and baby carrots. One bite came from food in a plain package with a simple label, and one bite came from a similar package that also had a Dora the Explorer, Shrek or a Scooby Doo sticker on the front.
Both packages had the same brand of snack, but the children consistently said that the food from packages with cartoons tasted better, according to a study published today in the journal Pediatrics.
These are kids from an academic community where "smart parents" reside and the fat f**k, anti-junk food crusader Kelly Brownell spouts his crap.
Here are a couple of pictures of Kelly:
Clearly, he likes cartoons. And buys cartoon-packaged foods.
Of note, is what did not make it early in the article:
But researchers were surprised to find cartoons didn't have as much of an effect on the children's taste for carrots.Perhaps this indicates something about how the parents raised their children.
Also of note, the article failed to disclose from where the children receive their income which they presumably use to purchase cartoon-packaged foods for consumption.
Still, all in all, the children are simply displaying the same kind of behavior adults display.
They are attracted to cartoons, just as their parents are when it comes to politics.
Role model and cartoon:
Role modelette, Michellesie "The First Fatty" Obama, and cartoon:
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