I try to do my part in helping the association between sugar and diabetes, but Boston area comic Tom Dunlap has taken it to the next level. I saw a recent set of his at The Comedy Studio and got him to send me the relevant bit. Here's the transcript, so you'll have to do your own comic timing:
These next few jokes are called, "Advertisers don't care about children."
Cookie Crisp Cereal: It's cookies for breakfast! And diabetes.
Kellogg's Corn Pops: Gotta have my type II diabetes.
Frosted Flakes: THEEEYY'RRRRRRRE diabetes.
I think you get the point. It upsets me that advertisers shove sugary cereal down kids throats, and they don't care! They don't care that Raisin Bran is just two scoops of diabetes, you know, they don't care there's some children in hospitals, snap-crackle-lost-a-foot to diabetes. What it comes to is Kix Cereal: It's kid tested...positive for diabetes.
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Hmm, good point. Are Raisin Bran and Kix (in appropriate, non-American serving sizes) even in the sugar-sugar, honey-honey category?? Sad! Kix was like my favorite, although by high school I'd already ventured into the land of Barbara's Cereal- better stats, I think.
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