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What happens when you blog about cereal?

Yesterday, I made fun of "Good Friends" cereal. Today, I get this email:

Hi Ann,

First off, like the new picture of you, it looks great. Second, I work on some of the Kashi Cereal Projects and I have to tell you that I was quite amused to see our ?Good Friends? cereal making your site.

As you can see, that is the Left Coast ideal of what our 7 Grains can do for folks. The man and the woman picture actually is a characterization that depicts two former neighbors in Rialto, CA, who used to feud with one another, until they both realized that they both loved our ?Good Friends? cereal and as such she no longer needed to complain about his son?s loud car stereo or he about her daughter?s drunken soirees by the pool, when she is gone. In fact they have become ?Good Friends?. If only we could sneak some ?Good Friends? into the Gaza Strip, alongside the Kassam rockets and some into northern Israel, imagine what the world could be!! Of course we would have to remove the Kosher designation. ;-)

I would like to send you some samples of our other fine products, though not of this one, which doesn?t seem to tickle your fine central Wisconsin sensibilities. We do make many other very good products which I think you might enjoy both visually as an ad and as a foodstuff. If so inclined, please send me your work address and I will send you off a care package.

Thanks for the great blog site and for your appreciation of the Kinks!!

Sincerely,

[I'm withholding the name for no particular reason.]

Manager, Contract Manufacturing

Kellogg Company

I feel like an accidental Lazlo Toth.

IN THE COMMENTS: Paul Zrimsek writes:

Maybe I've been watching too much Bloggingheads lately but every time I see those paired faces on the cereal boxes I expect to see them start arguing about Heller.

Full post as published by Althouse on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).