Morning Reading

PebblePie reads cereal boxes and notes a curious situation with the calorie count of Honey Nut Cheerios and regular Cheerios.

I too read cereal boxes and the Honey Nut Cheerios box has peaked my ire more than curiosity. Not with their calorie lists, oh no. It’s something more important than that. It’s about Baseball, Apple Pie and America!

General Mills runs a comic on the back of the HNC box that shows Buzz (the hero bee) being called upon to pitch for the hive and strike out the oppositions slugger to win the game. Buzz does all that with one pitch that is heavily laden with sticky honey. The ball—and Buzz’ hand—are so coated with honey that the sticky stuff pulls the ball back to Buzz as though it were an elastic band and the hitter is left swinging at empty space. Buzz gets carted off the field as the hero of the game.

But, and here’s where I get angry, BUZZ IS A CHEATER! The rules of baseball clearly prohibit the use of any foreign substance on the ball! Buzz should not be a celebrated hero he should be fined and suspended for violation of the Rules of Baseball! (And where does the home team get to go into the stands for a player in the middle of the game? Sheesh!) And yet, this comic panel has been running for over a year. What kind of message does the cartoon image of a cheater being celebrated as a hero send? Would Wheaties boxes have pictures of athletes banned from competition for rules violations? I think not! General Mills should be demoted.