Cheerios vs. The Feds
May 14, 2009 10:59 AM | permalink
The Food and Drug Administration has a beef with a certain oat-based cereal: They are calling Cheerios a drug.
The claim on the box that the little toasted o's reduce cholesterol by "four percent" can only be made by approved drugs, say the FDA, and the agency is demanding General Mills correct its advertising or risk being snatched off the shelves.
(I bet every parent of young children just passed out after reading that, so let me give you a minute to recover...)
Now, in this original Dumb As a Blog video, watch as a federal agent* gets heavy-handed with a heavy user of this illicit drug.
*OK not a real federal agent. My brother. And the cute little star of the video is his spawn Sebastian.
Posted by Susie
