Revelations, revelations, everywhere. I was wondering about the way today’s youth are going down the drain, what with substance abuse, tattoos, alcohol, etc. It happened to be I looked a pickle jar about 30 seconds after I was thinking about this. This pickle jar was made by one of my favorite pickle companies, and that’s Vlasic®. This was a jar probably about one and a half feet tall, and 8 inches diameter. It sported a picture of the good ol’ Vlasic® Stork. He was wearing his hat, glasses and bow tie. And he was standing up, for probably the first time ever. But there was one major problem. The Vlasic® Stork wasn’t wearing a shirt.
He wasn’t wearing pants, either.
There is an urban legend that Donald Duck was at one point banned from
Such is the case of the Vlasic® Stork. For all the many years that the stork has reined supreme over the pickle world, we saw him as a civilized stork, with hat, bow tie and glasses. We assumed he was a refined stork, who wore clothes as well.
I urge you all to write to Vlasic®, and tell them to change their mascot to a dignified, say, sparrow who wears pants. If that doesn’t work, a nationwide boycott will be necessary.
I hope the boycott doesn’t last too long, though. I’m sure going to miss my pickles.
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Donald Duck was not banned from Finland for not wearing pants, but hat's how the story evolved.
ReplyDeleteIf you boycott everything that does not conform to your standards, I am afraid you will be naked and starving in no time at all!!! (G-d Forbid!)
You are probably too young to remember the TV and print spots with the stork crunching the pickles and lounging on the "Vlasic" label.
ReplyDeleteDont boycott the pickles, thank your folks who have shielded you from this shock.