Whaattt? Seriously?

Have you all seen this?

Joel and I were sitting on the couch, watching Project Runway when that little gem appeared on our television screen.  I can't believe it isn't all over the blogosphere yet...

Are these people serious?  This whole commercial (and the website http://sweetsurprise.com/) seems to be a bit familiar...like tobacco company familiar.  Fine in moderation?  Seems like you can't read any label without high fructose corn syrup being at the top of the list...it's everywhere.  The only way to avoid the crap is by buying whole, natural food products and making things from scratch.

Americans eat more corn and more corn by-products than any other group of people in the world.  We also are the fattest and most disease ridden...and those numbers have only been skyrocketing in the last fifty years or so...right around the time that we started to chemicalize the shit out of our food.

I'll be totally honest here...my household isn't going to win any awards or be the poster family for healthy eating.  I love fried high fructose corn syrup covered in trans fat, sautéed in MSG, and then sprinkled with red dye #40 just as much as the next girl...but intuitively...I know this isn't the stuff I should be shoveling into my loved ones.

So then how can I get snarky about this ad without coming off as a complete hypocrite?  Because anytime a group of people get together and try to lull me into some ridiculous false sense of security over a product that you'd have to be a complete idiot not to know isn't good for you...it gets my knickers in a complete twist. Plus, that woman is serving the cheapest, shittiest, generic knock-off brand of Kool-Aid ever...and that's just damn un-American.

What do you think of this campaign?  Are you running out to the store to stock up on high fructose corn syrup?  Or are you equally appalled?

Comments

[brokemom]

I am equally appalled. But it took a few to get that appalled. The commercial almost sucked me in...

[Vhe]

Darling, this confused me - should I use Splenda or just good ole sugar? Should I stop feeding my four legged children dog food laced with corn and wheat gluten? I sometimes feed them boiled chicken and long grain rice? They still poop the same poop? Speaking of corn and poop , I'm so gonna click on this waterless toilet ad to the left. Its pink and just like the ones at Ikea! - Vhe

[Jessica]

These commercials are weird, but to their credit they made me stop in my tracks and watch. Even if I only had a "WTF?" moment after.

By the way - read your comment on Dooce's site about leaving the country if there is a McCain/Palin administration. Right behind ya, sister. My hubby-to-be and I already discussed our evacuation plan.

[Michelle]

Well, like she said, "Fine in moderation." I don't see the problem here.

[kilax]

I saw the print ad before the commercial, and it already had me thinking, "WTF?"

HFCS is in everything. Are the people who produce it worried people are going to get healthy and stop eating it? I doubt it.