Two more bowls of Special K — or as I am calling it now, Mediocre K – and the diet continues. I went to wikipedia to see what I could find out about Special K and it had this interesting tidbit:
Special K advertising is heavily marketed towards women, perhaps because in the 1970s it established a reputation as one of the first diet cereals. This has led to allegations that Special K was in fact the world’s first so-called ‘sexist cereal’, something which Kellogg’s have themselves strongly denied.
Dear god, I’m eating a ladie’s cereal. Oh sure, Kellogg’s can deny it, but go to the Special K website and count how many men you see.
I don’t mind a cereal that’s targeted towards a specific demographic. There is a long-standing history of this type of marketing, in the breakfast industry. Whether it be a cereal geared towards fringe religious denominations, the homosexual community, black vampires, sociopathic bovines, or virgins. And I’m fine with all of that. But if I’m going to be eating a woman’s cereal, I just want to know before I start losing my mainly chest-hair or growing a vagina or something. I have no idea how powerful this cereal is. I told you Special K wasn’t a descriptive enough name. These things should be called Lesb-O’s or Honey Bunches of O-varies or something. Something to clue a guy in.
