Blatant Hucksterism In My Edible Prophesy Containers
Posted on | January 1, 2008 at 3:20 pm | 2 Comments
Happy New Year!
And what do we do with a new year? We make prophecies about it. So let’s go to the Fortune Cookie, shall we? Here’s the one I got yesterday from Pad Thai:
Let’s take this one line at a time:
Cooking is easy.
Debatable. I went through my cooking phase, and yes, sometimes it was easy. But a lot of times it was hard. The worst part is chopping up all those vegetables.
Tasting good is hard.
No, I would say tasting good is easy, especially if it’s bear or a cougar tasting me. Tasting well is hard.
That’s why you call take out.
So, basically, this is saying that even though cooking is easy, it’s hard to cook something that tastes good, and so you should call take out? Hmmm, seems to me like someone is trying to push their delivery service. They might as well just include a coupon in the cookie.
And what does this say about the new year? Absolutely nothing, except maybe that embedded advertising will be getting even more out of hand in 2008. I’m crushed.
Jogged Today: Nope.
Today’s Weight: 163.8 lbs
Lunch Yesterday: Garlic Pepper Chicken at Pad Thai.
Pet Peeve of the Day: eMusic was temporarily offline yesterday, and my monthly downloads expire tomorrow. Luckily I was able get in today and do my downloads. I wonder if they’ll extend the deadline for those who expired yesterday? Probably not.
Latre.
Comments
2 Responses to “Blatant Hucksterism In My Edible Prophesy Containers”
January 1st, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
Well, you can always contact eMusic’s stellar customer service department, and ’round about 2012 or so, they’ll get back to you on that.
January 1st, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
Chinese takeout dinner: $11.49
Devoting more analytical energy to an advertising message than it took to write AND print it: 1 blog post
The inane comment it generates in response: priceless