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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-05-03 07:14 pm
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advertising, a different world from ours

"Kerry Citrus Spring, a more interesting way to drink water"

Since when has drinking water been something you'd assign a scale of interest to?

[identity profile] rimrunner.livejournal.com 2004-05-03 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Since the marketing drones ran out of other ideas.

The flavored-water thing is such a stunning example of useless convenience. Cause squeezing a lime into a bottle of seltzer is too much trouble.

I'm not against convenience, but it can't be an accident that its implementation in just about every aspect of American life occurs concurrently with the expansion of our collective waistline.