The Coco Pops Monkey Situation
We live in a world threatened by climate change. There's currently conflict in Iraq and Afganistan and the situation in Darfur isn't going terribly well either. Many complex international and local issues confront and intrigue me in the morning newspaper each day whilst I'm sipping my breakfast coffee. But there's one thing I really must know.
What the hell happened to the Coco Pops monkey! (Not that I eat the stuff, of course).
Over the past 30 years or so, Coco the monkey (he who appears on the front of Coco Pops packs), has been quite primate-like in his appearance (see Exhibit C). Traditionally, Coco has been a small, athletic brown monkey of somewhat cheeky disposition that enjoyed this particular cereal because (and I quote): "it tastes like a chocolate milkshake – only crunchy". I had no idea that monkeys found crunchy chocolate milkshakes so appealing. Bananas are likely to be a distant second in their food preferences.
The new Coco is a rascally, impish-looking human teen/monkey hybrid enhanced with hair product (see Exhibit A). In the UK the Coco Pops monkey actually looks more like a bear (see Exhibit B). Obviously our friends in the UK don't watch the stirling documentaries made by their Sir David Attenborough. In fact, one can only draw the inevitable conclusion that those in the UK seem quite poorly monkey-informed. But clearly, something is seriously up with the contemporary Coco. Just what is he, exactly?
Has Kellogg's been genetically modifying their breakfast cereal
ambassadors ('pack creatures' to you) to suit some crazy GM-based marketing idea? Is there something in Coco Pops apart from their sugar levels being 36.5% of total food product that we should know about?
The new Coco Pops monkey freaks me out. I
want the old Coco Pops monkey to come back. (Not that I eat the
stuff, of course).
I think Coco has been killed off. He isn't even in the latest TV ads !
Damn, I miss that little rascal !
Long live Coco :(
Posted by: Willf | 05 June 2007 at 07:47 AM