Admittedly, I am confused pretty easily. Not so much as the common deer-stuck-in-headlights kind of confused – but close.
I stumbled upon these little gems in the grocery store the other day. Suddenly I was confused.
A pie comes in a variety of flavors. Apple, pecan, lemon, and yes, even cherry. But cherries do not come in a multitude of flavors. They come in…ummm….cherry.
So what gives and where will this end?
You can’t have bacon stuffed bacon (trust me, I have looked).
There is no Kool-Aid flavored soda.
You can’t have apple stuffed apples.
And you can’t have cherries that taste like pie.
Pie is useless without help…
You can’t have pie flavored anything without the actual fillers.
I think “pie” has been riding this lofty wave long enough. It is time that someone calls pie out for what it actually is…a big hunk of dough whose only use is to hold together something yummy.
No one asks for “more pie but hold the filing please.” It just doesn’t happen.
Matter of fact, I have seen many a people leave extra pie bits on the plate – that almost never happens with the filling.
Nope…this makes no sense to me.
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Cherry flavored cherries is just another indication that advertisers believe that the average human being is so dumb that they don’t know what’s good for them. Most of the ads that are being shown make a statement that is the exact opposite of reality. “Have a Coke and a smile”. If I was already smiling, I wouldn’t need a Coke. In fact, Coke doesn’t make me smile. Coke makes me burp, but how would that look for a tagline? “Have a Coke and a belch!” It just doesn’t make you want to put your 1.50 into the soda machine, does it.
Cherry flavored cherries is just a comment that the cherries are actually….wait for it…cherries.
There is no subtext or hidden message.
Just a lack of intelligence by the advertiser.
in other words, “cherries flavored with chemicals in a laboratory to make them more pallatable for those who dislike cherries”? I love America.
When somebody talks about cherries it gets my attention. Anyway, you said:
“You can’t have bacon stuffed bacon (trust me, I have looked).”
Well, respectively submitted for your approval:
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/
Cool blog, BTW. Somebody pointed me your way because they thought you write, um, kinda like me. Or the other way around. Or something like that.