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After a great revelation in the 'Dumb Moves in Marketing' thread I thought this'd be a good idea to find similar stuff as I LOVE hearing about stuff like this. Know a company that used to do something awesome our unique? A food brand that used to have X with Y? It's all fair game here. I'll start with a shamelessly copy-paste but it's a worthwhile one: quote:InediblePenguin posted:    Toys in cereals! Pretty sure they stopped this due to safety reasons. I remember having cool little collections  Also, feel free to rant about current day stuff, such as 3 snickers instead of 4 in a £1 pack. But this will probably cause derails up the wazooo. So try and stick to cool and unique bits 
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Cant touch the strippers boobs now
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Jan 19, 2015 12:30
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Rapman the Cook posted:Cant touch the strippers boobs now Just gotta go to the right one man
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Jan 19, 2015 12:33
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Can't grope the flight attendants butt anymore
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Jan 19, 2015 16:46
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Kinder Surprise is a chocolate sold throughout the world, an egg shaped plastic capsule with a toy inside, covered in milk chocolate. As a kid these were awesome, even if the toys were kinda crappy. However in the US some moron kid decided to eat the plastic capsule, leading to a lawsuit and the banning of the product in the country. You can still find them sometimes in foreign import groceries but still, if one kid eats plastic, maybe the problem is with him and not the internationally beloved chocolate treat.
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Jan 19, 2015 17:02
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Pretty much 90% of stuff stores/companies do to be "green." Oh how forward of you to charge me for plastic bags, is that money going towards some environmental fund or something? No? Oh. I also remember Walmart having signs in stores about how green they were for using less lights or something.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:14
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The Blue Pyramid posted:Kinder Surprise is a chocolate sold throughout the world, an egg shaped plastic capsule with a toy inside, covered in milk chocolate. As a kid these were awesome, even if the toys were kinda crappy. However in the US some moron kid decided to eat the plastic capsule, leading to a lawsuit and the banning of the product in the country. You can still find them sometimes in foreign import groceries but still, if one kid eats plastic, maybe the problem is with him and not the internationally beloved chocolate treat. There wasn't any lawsuit, there's just a law that says you can't embed non-food things in food. It's from the 30s too so it's from the good old days when nobody worried about lead paint or any of that stuff.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:28
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Pensions.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:52
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AKA Pseudonym posted:There wasn't any lawsuit, there's just a law that says you can't embed non-food things in food. It's from the 30s too so it's from the good old days when nobody worried about lead paint or any of that stuff. Please don't deflate my misplaced sense of outrage over cheap chocolate with poo poo toys by posting facts.
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Jan 19, 2015 18:57
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AKA Pseudonym posted:There wasn't any lawsuit, there's just a law that says you can't embed non-food things in food. It's from the 30s too so it's from the good old days when nobody worried about lead paint or any of that stuff. The FDA can rule that the toy has "functional value" tho. If they weren't a bunch of assholes.
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Jan 19, 2015 19:00
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Beef tallow in McD's fries. gently caress vegetarians.
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Jan 20, 2015 08:59
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Shiki Dan posted:Beef tallow in McD's fries. Currently listening to Steve Austins podcast with DDP and read your post in his voice. Bang!!
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Jan 20, 2015 09:05
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X-ray machines in the shoe store. How'm I gonna know if my toes fit in the boots now huh???
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AKA Pseudonym posted:There wasn't any lawsuit, there's just a law that says you can't embed non-food things in food. It's from the 30s too so it's from the good old days when nobody worried about lead paint or any of that stuff. There was a lawsuit, but in the UK from a bunch of parents whose kids died by choking on the toys. You're right that in the U.S. it was just some FDA regulation. Apparently a bunch of people thought thought their toy eggs were really serious and drew up a petition to the White House to end the ban, but couldn't get enough signatures. 
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Jan 20, 2015 10:40
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Pensions. Living wages
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Jan 20, 2015 11:08
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The Blue Pyramid posted:Kinder Surprise is a chocolate sold throughout the world, an egg shaped plastic capsule with a toy inside, covered in milk chocolate. As a kid these were awesome, even if the toys were kinda crappy. However in the US some moron kid decided to eat the plastic capsule, leading to a lawsuit and the banning of the product in the country. You can still find them sometimes in foreign import groceries but still, if one kid eats plastic, maybe the problem is with him and not the internationally beloved chocolate treat. My local Indo-Polish grocery store sells them anyways.
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Jan 20, 2015 11:15
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We used to have a Continental Airlines flight to Bali that had a lounge/bar area in the middle of the plane to hang out. P. much everything about domestic airlines has gotten far worse since the 80's, except the ban on smoking.
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TheHomerTax posted:Just gotta go to the right one man Why, do the bouncers always stand to their left?
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