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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

I'm Kookoo for Coco Rocks!

Apparently Kelloggs "accidentally" named a cereal after street slang for crack. "Coco Rocks" is not only a cereal that "contains rock-shaped pillows filled with chocolate," but it is also the term for "brown crack made by adding chocolate pud." Um, ew on both counts. A spokesperson for a Charity Durgscope questioned why Kelloggs doesn't have people checking the names of their cereals. Yes, because my first thought when I name a cereal is to make sure that I didn't inadvertently name it after crack.

Read the full story here.