So I bought myself some Apple Jacks today. They’re a nice, healthful snack with 3 (YES THREE!) types of grains!!! I only bought them because they were a childhood favorite.
But to my surprise and delight, I opened the box and resting in a beautiful slumber on top of the plastic bag was a smaller bag concealing a PRIZE (I guess they don’t put the prizes IN the cereal anymore…some child probably complained broke a finger while struggling to shovel it from out of the puffed-corn goodness. I know I came close in yesteryear).
Anyway, I got a prize! So excited at this point. Open the plastic bag with the slightest of ease. Inside was a Star Trek-inspired “Beam Up Badge.” TOTALLY COOL. I’m not even kidding when I say a slight smirk graced my face while I was unwrapping it.
But don’t get excited along with me. It’s not a badge. I wouldn’t even call it a prize. It’s a plastic ‘V’ with a greenish-yellow light. There’s no clip for me to use to help me pin it onto myself. I don’t know what the designers of this product were thinking when they called it a ‘badge.’ I CAN’T WEAR IT?!?! Now, obviously I wasn’t expecting it to actually beam me somewhere (kinda) or else I would have called my friend across the bridge to expect me. BUT. I was expecting some sort of ‘beaming’ noise to go along with the blinding light. Nope. No noise. Just a plastic ‘V’ with a light and no badge-clippery.
Whatever Kellogg’s. Go find a better prize designer. Or stop false advertising.
Bye. :)
