Kill it with AGENT ORANGE!
Seriously, was the focus group microdosing or what when they came up with this abomination? It's like Swamp Thing has come ashore in Aisle Six!
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@cstross it's like a vegetarian Oogie Boogie after Jack Skellington ripped away his hessian sack ghost outfit !!
@cstross I think this escaped from one of your books. 😁🤪
@cstross It looks like it could get elected President.
@cstross I am so glad I am not the only one. I came around the corner at Tesco and felt like I walked into Oogie Boogie’s plant-based cousin. The size of it enhances the HORROR.
If it's anything like how we do things in Canada, it was probably a good initiative that would look bad politically to kill so they paid an agency that is linked to the cattle industry or sugar industry to spearhead this campaign so they made this abomination to say they did a thing but gee, it just didn't work.
In Ontario, they made the heat pump rebate program so ungodly to access it's nearly impossible. You need to follow so many steps and pay $20k upfront for the pumps. I muttered under my breath that they probably paid off someone to make the program as shitty as possible. Then I found out it's literally administered through the natural gas distributor. Open corruption is what we've got here.
@chu It's 100% a campaign by the largest supermarket chain in the UK, Tesco. Not government.
@cstross I think the fruit-vegie creature is cute. The 'free fruit and veg for schools' ad though, I'm not so sure about. There are no fruit and vegs around, there are instead plushies, and those aren't free.
@cstross It's Pizza The Hutt's vegan cousin
Scary Veggies to Eat in the Dark
@cstross the adverts are even more deranged as the "fruit beast" is chasing children. Looks like it's made of insects to me.
@cstross oh god, it looks like Baymax from Big Hero 6 suffering from a mass infection of those multicolored pulsating parasites that normally live in snails' eye stalks.
@cstross @bobthomson70
as a kid i would love it.
This needs a whole back story about a GMO scientist who caught fire and plunged into the produce section. Today he fights crime and scurvy.
@cstross
He looks happy, leave him alone!
@cstross kill it with agent orange is not a great thing to joking about. Please look into what the Americans did with agent orange in Vietnam. It's caused issues that continue today... It's not a funny joke.
@cstross Looks like it needs feeding into a grinder then killing with fire.
@cstross I like it. It's cute. The Plant Golem.
@cstross I think you'd need more than a microdose to come up with that.
@cstross That's something that emerges from swamps, not supermarkets!!!
@cstross Isn't it a reskinned Fungus The Bogeyman?
@cstross NO No even that monstrosity does not deserve exposure to Trump.
(Yes I know you were really referring to 2,4-D/2,4,6 T)
@cstross It's bad all over.
@cstross also sceptical of the adjacent plushies. "eat yer veg! …not like that"
@cstross it looks like it eats children!
Eat your veg, or your veg will eat you!
