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I was in line in the supermarket last night, and the woman behind me told her son, around 10 or 11 years old, that if he wanted he could run to get some ice cream. About 5 minutes later the kid came back.
With frozen eyeballs and green slime.
He picked up Fear Factor Pop Ups, from Popsicle. These little frozen concoctions look like regular Pushups, but they have "extreme" colors and big eyeballs on the top of them. Let's take the copy straight from the web site:
"In sour cherry with an eyeball gumball and sour watermelon, both with the shocking taste of sour lemon slime. Or the slime pop - sour watermelon flavored ice with sour lemon slime." (Do those lines even make sense?)
The mother, needless to say, was not pleased with her son's choice. In fact, I think I heard her say the word "no" about 17 times. The poor kid was heartbroken when she told him to take it back and get something "normal." But he didn't cry, so good for him.
I didn't even know they made food products based on reality shows. I'm not looking forward to Big Brother Cake or Blind Date Juice.
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8-09-2006 @11:10AM Alex said... That's quite an unreasonable parent really. You tell your child to go and choose ice cream, child comes back with ice cream and then you say 'no'. How on earth does that work??????
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8-09-2006 @12:51PM Heidi said... ..And the pushpops were individual servings and likely a lot healthier than a gallon of icecream.
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8-09-2006 @1:35PM Finished.Law.School said... Good for the Mom for sticking to her decision and not giving in to whining.
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8-09-2006 @2:01PM Bob Sassone said... Hmmm, I never said the kid whined. In fact, he didn't cry or whine at all. He just brought the pops back and got something else.
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8-09-2006 @3:46PM JoAnna said... That stuff is awesome!
I'd say I wished they'd made it when I was a kid, but no need!
I can buy what want, and I don't have to ask my mommy OR Finished.Law.School whether I can have it.
But I'm with Alex: Don't give a kid free reign to choose and then criticize the choice. Even if the kid didn't like it, the mom would be out $5 or so, right? Sometimes learning lessons costs money.
Not as much money as law school debt, thank goodness, because otherwise we might all grow up to be just like FLS! (I dread the lawyer who infers facts where there are none.)
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8-14-2006 @2:09PM George said... Sounds like a great thing to me! Where can I get some?
Get real people, learn to read. The child might not have whined BUT mom said "No" aboout "17 times". That is not giving in gracefully, is it?
She should have the child have the stuff. She allowed him to make a choice, he chose, next time live with it. It may actually have been good.
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8-14-2006 @2:16PM Angie said... Maybe next time she'll be smarter and pick the ice cream herself! I have 3 boys 14,10,9 what is the harm of the push pop with a piece of eyeball gum? Isnt that kind of gum the type they get maybe at Halloween? Maybe he isnt allowed to Trick or Treat. I agree though if you say no you must stick to your guns and not let them get thier way. However theres also a great saying "know when to pick your battles" and to me I don't think this harmless ice cream would be a battle I would waste my time one. Let the boys be boys!!!
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8-14-2006 @2:22PM Christy said... Kids, especially boys love that kind of thing. Surely she didn't think it was REAL eyeballs...come on now! LOL! They probably have real fruit juice in them and they are fat-free! Go for it!
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8-14-2006 @2:22PM Christy said... Kids, especially boys love that kind of thing. Surely she didn't think it was REAL eyeballs...come on now! LOL! They probably have real fruit juice in them and they are fat-free! Go for it!
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8-14-2006 @2:22PM Maggie said... Obviously Mom was not aware this item was an option or she would have said "Go get some ice cream and nothing with eyeballs"
As long as she was paying I don't think she overstepped her boundaries with regards to her ten year old son.
JMO...as a Mom.
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8-14-2006 @2:24PM Carol said... I'm a 69 year young grandmother and I bought them for my grandkids. We had a ball eating them together!
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8-14-2006 @2:28PM christine said... give me a break- it's only ice cream! be happy he didn't ask for a toy gun for his birthday
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8-14-2006 @2:30PM Terri said... Oh please. There are a lot of worse things going on in this world than a little "Reality Show Marketing Stragety Angst." I think it's a great idea and fun for children. Just be grateful we have supermarkets with freezers full of ice cream. Americans are so full of themselves. I, as an American who has travelled extensively around the world, am so sick of these people with this sense of entitlement and who take so many things for granted. Eyeball push-pops? Think about how stupid complaining about them really is.
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8-14-2006 @2:30PM Deb said... When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs. Specifically, from the female cochineal beetles and their eggs. And it's not just yogurt. The bugs are also used to give red coloring to Hershey Good & Plenty candies, Tropicana grapefruit juice, and other common foods.
Wow!
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8-14-2006 @2:31PM Michelle said... Donald Trump has water that he was pushing during the Apprentice craze a while back - it's nuts. I remember my mom was outraged at those sour candies when they first came out. I once bought a gummy rat that I was never able to take a bite out of. In the end if your kids can go through with eating what they buy then eyeballs in green slime it is.
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8-14-2006 @2:36PM Bobbi King said... I bought these...and I am a 31 year old woman! Life is too short to take things seriously...Let your kids have some fun!
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8-14-2006 @2:39PM rachel said... This shows marketers know what they're doing -- playing to the love of "gross" stuff boys 7-11 have. They're banking on more moms saying yes than no, and they'll probably be right. While I hate my sweets to taste sour, some kids like that, too. Agreed -- don't make it a choice if you don't want it in the house; once you give them the choice, live with the results!
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8-14-2006 @2:40PM Xcast said... Her money--her rules. Technically, she told him to get ice cream, not popsicals, so she can make him take it back if she wants to. If he needs to "learn a lesson" about whether he likes something or not, let it be on his dime, not hers.
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8-14-2006 @2:41PM Shannon said... I am a bad momma and bought these for my 3 & 6 yo boys. They LOVED them. It is just ice cream. Mine didn't look like the pic on the box though because they melted and then were refrozen. IMHO it is no different than gummy worms, spiders etc...
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8-14-2006 @2:51PM Diana said... Actually, I had one of these, I believe it was the green one with the gumball for the eye, and it tasted so good. There is obviously a lot of sugar in them but who cares what the box says or looks like. It doesn't look too much like that when you open it up. I say buy it as a treat once in a great while, if your child wants to try it. Other than that, stick to sugar free and don't buy everything the child wants all the time. I do give kudoos to the parent for that.
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