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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I got up early today to go shopping (shopping at 8am is THE way to avoid holiday traffic). Just got home, turned on the computer to start watching Super Tuesday returns and poured myself a bowl of Kellogg's Fruit Loops (it's the result of reading too many conspiracy theory posts) to munch on. I like to scoop up a handful, separate them by color and munch separately.

There's not one single green Fruit Loop in the box Exclamation

I know; when none showed up in my bowl, I shook the box around to check lower down. Then I thought, "Hmmm...maybe they've stopped making green Fruit Loops...No, there they are, right on the box." There's even a green Fruit Loop substituting for the first ㅇ in 후루트 링. And a lime along with the pix of an orange, cherries and a lemon.

So, is this actionable? Do I have a case for false advertising?

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

anybody can sue anybody. winning is something different. what would you expect as compensation for your mental anguish/suffering?

FWIW: i bring in colorful stuff and have hte kids talk about them. last week i brought in the front side of a box of tony the tiger's frosted flakes. no fewer than three different students in three different classes said this was a bad cereal. i asked why. (the box art has flakes with strawberies.) the kids say the company is lying because there are no strawberries inside.

browneyedgirl · Joined: 17 Jul 2007

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

I am also pissed off.

I bought a box of meusli. I reached into the box, and there was no bowl!!!!! But there's a bowl in the picture!!! What the *beep*?

Suwoner10 · Joined: 10 Dec 2007

skeeterses · Joined: 25 Oct 2007

You know that the stuff is just dried gum with food coloring in it. If you want green fruit, get some plain corn flakes and then cut up some strawberries, kiwis, and bananas and put that in with your cereal.

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

remember when we werr kids there was always a picture on the side panel of a breakfast feast: juice, bacon, eggs, fruit cereal...and the small print caption that cereal is a delicious part of a nutritious breakfast?

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Cereal blows.

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

paquebot · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Already mentioned....you can sue anyone, any company, etc...the question you should be asking is, can you win and win big!

peach · Mod Team Joined: 16 Oct 2004

You'd certainly make the news. How much do you thikn your emotional trauma would be worth?

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

For the uninitiated: Fruit Loops is one of the most nutricious ways to get your minimum daily requirement of sugar. Eliminating green/lime Fruit Loops reduces by at least 25% the aesthetic pleasure, and arguably more since the sum is greater than the parts. Plus, I think my time is valuable--I spent a couple of minutes of time that I can never regain shaking the box and searching for at least one green Fruit Loop.

I would say my emotional trauma is easily worth the price of a humble 4- or 5-bedroom retirement home on a hill overlooking the Pacific somewhere with an acceptable climate. And a maid.

To the poster asking for permission to quote me: I got burned once on this. I was the originator of 'It was a dark and stormy night' and gave it to Bulwer-Lytton as a favor. This time around, I expect residuals. But we can deal. PM me.