Saturday, January 16, 2010

Back around 2010

or whenever it was that they first started growing meat in vats, the early developers had already figured out that they could mix a little fish DNA in with pork or beef and get some omega3 oils into the product, to help with the bad fat deal. For quite a while the big companies tried to worm the vat meats into foodstuffs without talking about it too much, not wanting to be seen as pushing unnatural stuff into the consumer. But the MegaLunch conglomerate from China said what the hell, if you've got it, flaunt it....and they put a lot of money and clever ad work into the FishyPiggy franchise....you know, the cartoon half-pig, half-fish character with the simsoda cup in one hand, and the order of stem fries in the other, swimming into the 3DTV in your living room. I always thought the real clever part was mixing BBQ sauce with shrimp sauce and slathering that on all their sandwiches. "No animals harmed in our kitchens! No spuds either, our fries are 100% ersatz, as is everything we serve, you have FishyPiggy's promise!" Kids love FishyPiggy.

1 comment:

Scifihed said...

you gotta love 2010!