Consumerist: disturbing

Make Money At Home Stuffing Supplement Capsules—No Anything Required

Chris Walters — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:42:26 EST

This personal testimony about health supplements from winstonthorne on today's earlier post is too good—and disturbing—to leave buried in comments:

One of my friends actually stuffs capsules for a living for a company making an herbal "sexual stimulant" - she literally sits there on her living room floor watching TV, smoking cigarettes, and talking on the phone while handling (with either bare unwashed hands or many-times-reused gloves) the powder and the capsules themselves. It pays well, and her boss gets away with this because there's no FDA control on herbal supplements AT ALL. God only knows what's in those pills.

"Hormone-Filled Dietary Supplement Caused Cancer In Two Men, Say Doctors"
(Photo: Getty)

Disturbing Cheese Ads With Luis Guzmán And His Fellow "Cheddar Hunks"

Chris Walters — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:52:44 EST

Okay, we're just going to say it: calling men of a certain age "cheddar hunks" just sounds like they all smell like stinky feet. That's a table I want to stay far, far away from. Nevertheless, Cabot Cheese of Vermont has launched a new television campaign featuring Guzmán and his Stinky-Feet-Friends sitting around drinking beer and eating cheese. It's weird. And though we have always liked Cabot Cheese, now it's going to be hard not to think of middle-aged toes (and werewolves) whenever we go cheddar shopping. Urg.

Not that Cabot is too concerned about that, apparently, since they're going after wives with this spot:

Cabot's market research shows that while their cheese is eaten predominantly by men, it is purchased mostly by women. She wanted a series of ads that would convey to women that when guys get together to drink beer and eat cheese (which is not often enough, by the way), the cheese they want to find in the fridge is Cabot.

"Cheese Puff" [Slate]

Cool Whip Is Lube

Carey — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:00:37 EDT

Wired took a peek under Cool Whip's sheets, and the results are not appetizing. Mandatory food labels ostensibly exist to empower consumers; when companies label ingredients with their scientific names, rather than their common names, consumers can wind up eating lube, or as it's called in Cool Whip, Polysorbate 60. From Wired:

Polysorbate 60
Polysorbates are made by polymerizing ethylene oxide (a precursor to antifreeze) with a sugar alcohol derivative. The result can be a detergent, an emulsifier, or, in the case of polysorbate 60, a major ingredient in some sexual lubricants.

Shame we never got to hear Charlton Heston exclaim: "Cool Whip is Lube!" — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER

A delicious blend of sugar, wax, and condom lube. [Wired]