Nice Try, Target and Campbell's (Frozen-Themed Soup)
These days, everyone is trying to capitalize on Disney's Frozen. I mean, I get it. It is the highest grossing animated film of all time. It has been nearly a year, and Frozen mania is still going strong. But at what point does capitalization become just fraud?
Recently, Campbell's put out a "Target exclusive" Frozen-themed chicken noodle soup to join Campbell's line of other Disney/Pixar-themed soups. Personally, I think the shaped noodles taste like crap, even by overly-processed-and-likely-to-kill-you-slowly food standards [which reminds me, let me cut the Pure Foods Brigade off at the pass. Yes, yes, I know none of this stuff is good for you. Spare me the sanctimommy]; but the kids like it, so… whatever.
However, there is absolutely nothing different about this soup from the regular Disney Princess soup. Observe,
Normal Disney Princess soup can:
Frozen soup can:
It is exactly the same. They didn't even try to pretend to change the contents (other than the misleading front label). They couldn't even pretend that Arial shape was Elsa? What does a carriage or slipper have to do with Frozen? Campbell's can figure out how to shape an egg white like a castle, but a snowflake is beyond their design capabilities??
C'mon now!
Maybe I'm exaggerating, but this one is straddling the line between fraud and laziness. These "enchanted shapes" are no different from the "cool shapes"—not even a little bit.
Am I the only one who thinks they barely phoned this one in?
Teacher Appreciation Week
We will soon get back to our regularly scheduled blog (I promise!), but since I had a little time, I wanted to share what the Pop Culture Family has done so far for Teacher Appreciation Week. Last month, the Pop Culture Kids started a new preschool/daycare. I really like the school a lot, and one of the things I like the best about it (as opposed to their former Montessori school) is how much communication the school has with the parents. Teacher Appreciation Week was no different. In honor of the week, the school basically gave the children a guideline of what to do every day of the week:
Monday - Bring your teacher an apple. Be creative! Examples are apple pies, pictures of apples, apple lotion, etc.
Tuesday - Bring breakfast for the teachers [separate sign up sheet]
Wednedsay - Bring your teacher a flower.
Thursday - Bring lunch for the teachers [separate sign up sheet]
Friday - Write your teacher a note
I took the "be creative" as a challenge. I'm no Martha Stewart, but I do like to be crafty. Below is my interpretation of a creative apple. (Side note: Pop Culture Preschooler has two teachers and Pop Culture Baby has three)
Phase one: baking. If you're wondering why my apples look a little wonky, it turns out I was wrong wrong wrong when I assumed the Michael's near my house would sell apple-shaped cookie cutters. Therefore, I had to use a plain circular cookie cutter and make it up as I went along. Some apples fared better than others.
Phase two: frosting (ignore the picture quality, as it was taken by a three-year old)
(Yes, those are worms. Why not?? They studied bugs last week. And... I'm just weird like that)
Pop Culture Baby wanted to "help" too. No, that tube was NOT open.
And then we placed them in baskets (with a little fake grass on the bottom):
Voilà! Challenge accepted and met.
For Wednesday, we were a little less sophisticated. I simply picked up a nice Spring kit from Michael's and let Pop Culture Preschooler get to work:
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