Aren't Kids confused enough?

[Weird Harold]

I saw a product in the store today that maks me realize why today's kids are so confused.

Popsicle (tm) "Scribblers" -- Crayon Shaped popsicles.

Are these teching kids that it's OK to write on the walls with frozen juice treats, or that it's OK to eat their art supplies?

 

[MunchinMark]

When I was a kid the pharmacy sold candy wistles. They worked although they were a bit sticky. I never once tried to eat a sports whistle or a musical instrument, although I probably did drive my mother crazy.

The kids who get these ice lollies probably don't care about they shape. They know what they are. Kids are experts at sweets.

Although I must admit, some kids do eat their art supplies.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I don't get the

baby bottle pops. ? Now they have all these different colors for margarine & ketchup... blue, green, purple.

Remember candy cigarettes?

 

[Weird Harold]

The kids who get these ice lollies probably don't care about they shape. They know what they are. Kids are experts at sweets.

Although I must admit, some kids do eat their art supplies.

I don't really believe that products like this seriously confuse kids, but the packaging does work.

There were a couple of kids with their mothe in line behind me when I saw thse Popsicles. The kids (ages abut 4 and 8) thought they were neat and immediately began begging Mom for some -- they wanted the scribblers even though there were (cheaper) classic Popsicles in the same flavors in the case next to the scribblers.

I think kids shave been eating art suplies as long as school paste has been available -- I know I ate a lot of school paste as a child.

 

[Tyrael]

Heh, I've never known kids to price check anything. Of course they are going to go for the new item in the flashier wrappings. Show me any kid that takes the price of a new toy/candy into consideration before Mom or Dad tells em it's too expensive.

It's just the novelty of a new design. They'll get over it in a few days.

 

[freescorfr]

I saw a product in the store today that maks me realize why today's kids are so confused.

Popsicle (tm) "Scribblers" -- Crayon Shaped popsicles.

Are these teching kids that it's OK to write on the walls with frozen juice treats, or that it's OK to eat their art supplies?

This is a really provocative one, Weird, because you know very well that kids know the best products for writing on walls.

I don't think the sweet manufacturers are trying to confuse them but maybe they could have a warning on the packets,

"These sweets are unsuitable for graffitti"


I did once see on a condom machine

"If you eat this chewing-gum your turds come out in wellies".

 

[Weird Harold]

Heh, I've never known kids to price check anything. Of course they are going to go for the new item in the flashier wrappings.

I don't think the "Scribblers" are any flashier or more colorful than the other Popsicle (tm) products in the same display case. All of them had bright primary colors and eye-catching images on them -- most of the difference in packaging was the "Name" of the particular product. To an Adult, the differences in packaging is small enough that you have to actually look to see which Popsicle (tm) product is being purchased.

This is really just an example of the mixed messages that advertisers send about the products they're selling.

For example, the Bud Light (tm) ads starring Cedric the Entertainer say to me, "Drink Bud Light, and you too can be a social disaster." The older AOL commercials like "Ma! Pa done shot up the internet again," say to me, "We at AOL appeal to the dumbest and most inconsiderate elements of the population."

Popsicle (tm) "Scribblers" are just another product that sends mixed messages to buyers because advertising types just don't seem to understand semantics.

 

[Jellybeangirl]

Do you remember..

candy cigarettes? I never tried to light one of those up or eat real cigarettes...although my father wanted to make me eat them when he found out I had started smoking...

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Do you remember..

candy cigarettes? I never tried to light one of those up or eat real cigarettes...although my father wanted to make me eat them when he found out I had started smoking...

Yeah, I remember Candy Cigarettes and Candy whistles, and lots of other treats that you cant' find any more, like Wax "soda bottles," that mimiced something "adult."

I don't seriously think that kids will try writing on the wall with popsicles, or that they won't eat crayons unless the Popsicle (tm) company gives them the idea -- most kids do go through a phase of chewing on crayons without any help from the advertising industry.

This was just an observation about the unintended implications of product design and advertising.

 

[DustyWolfe]

LOL I remember all those things..
And what about Thumb Suckers
and then there were these plastic noses that were filled with ooze that you eat.. grooooooooosss

 

[freescorfr]

It all began with sugar mice.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Sugar mice? what the hell?
Then there were gummy rats...
I saw gummy genitalia the other day!

 

[Weird Harold]

I saw gummy genitalia the other day!

Something tells me that you weren't in a WalMart checkout line at the time, though. (At least I hope you weren't.)

 

[DustyWolfe]

Some girl in one of my college classes had them... She also had a box of dicktacks (little breath mints) LOL...

 

[LukkyKnight]

...For example, the Bud Light (tm) ads starring Cedric the Entertainer say to me, "Drink Bud Light, and you too can be a social disaster." The older AOL commercials like "Ma! Pa done shot up the internet again," say to me, "We at AOL appeal to the dumbest and most inconsiderate elements of the population."

Harold, you couldn't be more right if you joined the John Birch Society. The problem is, AOL is quite happy to have the less-informed, they are the largest share of the market. "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american [with aplogies to the non-U.S. cits living in north, central, and south america) consumer." Wish I remembered who said that... damn oldtimers disease. What were we talking about again?