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The Limited Worldview of Cheap Cereal

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Price Chopper's Fruit Whirls is their store-brand answer to Fruit Loops. They look and taste the same, sure, and they cost much less. But the educational value of the back panel is questionable.

"Languages from around the world" indeed, if by "world" you mean, well, Europe and her colonies.

Where's the Bantu?


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Forget the Bantu, where's the Chinese? It'd be a lot more useful for our kids to learn than Italian.

Posted by: Wacky Hermit | May 22, 2010 3:03 PM

They are teaching kids that there's no such thing as the weekend - for what, exactly, are they working?

Posted by: PaulG | May 23, 2010 4:58 PM

Great. I can now finally figure out what everyone is ordering at Starbucks!

Posted by: vetinari | May 25, 2010 2:35 PM

The languages selected aren't bad, but the words selected are. How about something useful, such as:
"Where is the restroom?"
"How do I get to the _______?"
"How much would that cost?"
"Do you speak English?"
"I did not stab her!"
... and similar things. But I guess that is what you get with the store brand.

Posted by: Alexander | May 25, 2010 11:42 PM

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