Rule 44a: If It Glows In The Dark, Don't Eat It

I've just watched an episode of 'Just for Laughs', a hidden camera show, which I wouldn't usually do, but it was on after the football, honest!

Anyway, one of their jokes was to have a girl in a shopping mall giving out hot dogs for the purpose of trying a new range of sauces.  Each person was given a hot dog and squirted on their own sauces from those massive pump-action sauce bottles that were coloured red, brown and yellow, as they usually are for tomato ketchup, brown sauce and mustard.

The joke was that each of the new sauces were coloured with a luminous green, blue and purple colouring.  They were horrific, they didn't even look like edible substances.  Even the people who were trying the hot dogs turned their noses up at them.

Despite all that, they still ate them!  Unbelievable!  They had no idea what the sauces were made of, there was just a feeling of, "well, it must be OK to eat otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to be giving them away in public."  I'm sure the colouring was 'food grade', but it appears Morgan Spurlock was right when he said that people will eat anything!

I don't know whether this says more about our desire for anything free, or about our complete inability to discern when it comes to putting food into our mouths.

Comments

[Jason]

wow, isn't that just so crazy and backwards though? it just shows the robotic and blind 'herd' mentality of most of society around the world...not thinking outside the box.
anyway, really liking your bright and sunny blog, even all the way from northern california! Blessings.

[Russell James]

My thoughts exactly! Thanks so much for your comments, it's always nice to know people are reading!