This is just wrong:
This is a horrible thing to do to wine. And of course, Stephen Colbert has an idea where this trend could be going next:
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Tip/Wag - Hello Kitty Wine & Pig's Blood Filters | ||||
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Forget pale horses. This, my friends, is the harbinger of the end. Next thing you know, there'll be Strawberry Shortcake condoms and Power Rangers butt plugs. Every damned fad is destined to be resurrected as something adults-only, because apparently companies are too lazy to come up with original adult fads.
And thus continues the infantalizing of America.
3 comments:
I take it you've never seen the "Hello Kitty" vibrators then?
Never underestimate the power of marketing to diminish our expectations. It's possible that the label is the best thing that these wines have to offer.
I should add that some of the marketing push behind child-inapproriate hello kitty merchandise (and a few other such characters) is because of Japanese cultural sensibilities, not American ones.
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