Posted: 2003-04-28 08:16pm
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RedImperator wrote:But a horseshoe is exactly what you'd expect to find in a cereal called LUCKY CHARMS.Ghost Rider wrote:Well Purple Horseshoes also isn't a part of the original design.
But yeah...why all the weirdo shapes....or does anyone remember the whale?
Pink hearts: Finding love is often a matter of luck.
Orange stars, yellow moons: In many human cultures, the stars and the moon and their interaction with each other can be portents of good luck.
Green clovers: Does this need to be explained?
Blue diamonds: This one is sorta iffy, I'll admit. But if I found a diamond, I'd certainly call it lucky. And if you haven't already noticed, the six marshmallows are the color of the rainbow, so you could say that the marshmallows taken together form a seventh lucky charm, and of course, seven is often considered a fortutious number, especially in Las Vegas (where a diamond can be very lucky if there's ten of them and you've got three others with pictures of royalty and one other with the letter "A").
Purple horseshoes: completes the rainbow, and horseshoes are also lucky.
Now let's see what they've done with their fuckery:
Red balloons: How are balloons lucky? I can ride in a balloon for ten bucks at the Philadelphia Zoo. If they needed red, they could have just darkened the heart, but even that isn't really necessary, considering the pastel shades they used for the other marshmallows except the horseshoe, probably because pastel purple would be indistinguishable from either the pink heart or the pastel blue diamond. So they've fucked up the rainbow formed by the marshamallows and ruined the subtle "six charms plus the rainbow makes seven" symbolism by bringing the total number of symbols to eight. Now, I consider eight to be MY lucky number, but it really has no significance to the rest of the world.
Pots of gold: while I would have no objection to a pot of gold charm should it have been introduced in place of, say, the yellow moons, what those hatfuckers have done is consolidated the yellow (turning the blue charm into a moon, perhaps the only positive move they've made) and the orange. While losing the star, a much more significant symbol than pots of gold in the mythology of luck, was bad enough, we've even more thoroughly wrecked the original symmetry of the six charms. This would bring us back down to six charms, but since the color symmetry has been broken, it doesn't matter.
Rainbows: apparently someone at General Mills realized they'd ruined the carefully constructed symbolism of the original six marshmallow lineup, they introduced a rainbow piece. While I would not object to the addition of a rainbow to the original lineup as a sort of avatar for the symbolic rainbow formed by the other six pieces, in the current mess they've made of Lucky Charms, it's a band-aid slapped on a severed leg.
EDIT: The temporary marshmallows, like the whales or the pine trees or whatever else some marketing schmuck dreamed up are not addressed here, as they are utterly beneath contempt.
cinnimon toast crunch, but I can go through a box in a day.theski wrote:Local radio station had this on this morning. Did a search could not find another thread. MODS lock it if its been done.
1. Fruity pebbles
2. Fruit loops with marshmellows
3. Golden Grahams
4. BOO berry
5. Quisp
eewwww...i tend to eat rasin bran fast to keep that from happeningEnforcer Talen wrote: raisin bran - let the milk soak it for 10 minutes, and it has the consistency of swamp moss. yummy.
Enforcer Talen wrote:heh, I like it that way. If I wanted crunchiness, Id cook toast.
eewwwwEnforcer Talen wrote:sogginess is a quality I demand from my cereal!
Red Impertor brand Bullshit(TM): Bringing a little bit of meaninglessness into everyone's life, one post at a time.Stampede wrote:wow. youve taken a simple yet delicious cereal and brought meaning to it....i will never be able to eat lucky charms the same way again. ok...i lied. i will.