Monday, June 16, 2008

A diet consisting of cookies?

It seems almost every day that I hear some jackass on the radio spewing forth his marketing message for the "Smart For Life Cookie Diet". This leads me to believe two things: 1.)Radio has fallen on hard times and accepted the lowest forms of advertising. 2.)This company has entirely too many suckers buying its brand of bullshit.

Looking at just the name alone and basing my judgment on that from my outsider's perspective I'd have to instantly call BULLSHIT on this one.

Upon looking further, it seems that by traditional definitions that their cookies are most definitely not classified as cookies. They sound like some horrible abomination that is created when the produce section of your favorite grocery store explodes and is immediately compressed and subsequently baked under the hot sun. These "cookies" just aren't right.



See, they look like some sort of hippie crap that even hippies wouldn't ingest

Especially disturbing is the recommendation of eating them at the rate six per day and limiting your caloric intake to 800. There just so happens to be another phrase to describe an 800 calorie per day diet.

Calista Flockhart

5 comments:

justacoolcat said...

I think my wife could live off of cookies, but I also tend to think she's 25% hummingbird.

The Future Was Yesterday said...

Ah Yes...Allie McBeal!
She wasn't worth a damn, but I sure miss the show!:)

Renaissance Woman said...

I so agree! Dam Allie McBeal! I have been told the cookies taste like crap!

Hammer said...

sounds like this stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_loaf

Turner Publishing said...

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