to object to a slim fast soup promotional pack being put in dd's tray at nursery

[pesme]

it is all trendy packaging and says something along the lines of 'yummy soup in your tummy makes you a yummy mummy' barf!

i object to this on so many levels!

1 - exposing dd aged 3 to the diet industry (ok she probably hasn't a clue but this is my high horse)
2 - using my childs tray as a marketing device.
3 - the phrase yummy mummy
4 - slim fast is evil.

I'm not trying to be insulting

just strikes me that we're sailing very close to food snobbery again

They sent a product that a lot of mums would be interested in.

we're not. big whoop. so just bin it

[blithely accepts all marketing as ok]

How do you mean 'tray' exactly?
Is this something that comes home?

But if I want to choose to be snobby about diet products, I should be able to.

I shouldn't have to fend off their unwanted advances through my child.

hunker I'm not saying that

I hate McDonalds for it's advertising practices as much as anything else

but I don't see anything sinister here. I'm not trying to be ornery. I just don't.

I wouldn't have been happy whatever it was because I don't tihnk it's ok to market ot parents THROUGH children who are at nursery or school. I don't care what the product is. But I don't think we need comments like

get a grip
don't get yer knickers in a etc
quinoa bus

do we, it doesn't help.

I'd much rather be told I had my (pretty, little) head up my arse than be accused of eating quinoa, especially on a bus

What this thread illustrates, as usual, that there are those who believe in social responsiblity/the application of basic ethics in everyday life, and there are those who prefer to walk about with their eyes closed and fingers in their ears deliberately and obtusely taking everything at face value.

Oooh, I do love MN

So if McDonald's gave out vouchers for free Big Macs and Happy Meals through nursery, that would piss you off?

(Oh, and I love the word ornery - nice use of it, Capp )

the get a grip was about nuclear arms

the quinoa bus was a joke

oh wtf

parp

Cappucino, it isn't really a food product, it is a dietary aid, using the term yummy mummy (most nursery age children can almost recognise the word mummy). It just seems an inapropriate avenue of advertising.

hunker yes it would

and I would be very cross

if it ever happens see you on here

night night

I accept that I'm an adult and you can get nmy name and sendme info about insurance and lots of other boring crap and you can sell to me if I watch Channel 4 or walk past a hoarding etc etc. I know ads are everywhere.

Don't do it by giving it to my small children to bring home because I think it's inappropriate, whatever the product.

www your point is good one but slimfast were not advertsing to the children, they were targeting the parents.

my children are subjected to crap advertsing on a daily basis (seen the gellibaff adverts recently?) I just explain to my children thats its complete rubbish and we are not having that stuff in the house.

no I know they weren't targetng children but they were using children to pass something on to parents. I don't think that's ok.
but I need to go to bed now too.

no don't go to bed this is fun!!

I would think it far worse if a parent is actually on a slimfast diet, at home, with school age kids!

I agree, if it is a product aimed at the adults use avenues to get it directly to the adults, don't use a side-door via the children (or rather their place of education) to "get" to the parents.

[remembers that every time DS1 sees the Sainsbury's logo, he says "Try somefing new today!"]

Which category do you fall into Greensleeves, in your opinion?

Let me guess......????

(the basic ethics of life clearly not respect for others etc. ie telling somone to 'take their pretty little head out of their arse')

Good that soup can prompt such lively debate.

No, I don't respect everybody regardless of their actions. Do you?

If you are still maintaining that the originating cause of this debate is "soup" , then I am left in little doubt as to which category you fall into

I don't mind people debating something, it's quite right that we do, I just don't like those belittling the poster type comments, they're not on imo and I try not to do it. Do as you would be done by and all that. anyway, bloody hell, look at the time!

The entire company should be imprisoned indefinitely for believing that the phrase
'yummy soup in your tummy makes you a yummy mummy' would appeal to women in this country.
And if it does appeal to any women in this country, they should be imprisoned too!

what if a cosmetics company were giving out samples of skin cream though (somethng luxurious ?sp, not anti ageing/anti wrinkle stuff)

I bet then, all the mums would say "ooh, how lovely" and there would be a mad scramble at home time.

But slimming sahets are dfferent - are we that weak? Men wouldn't kick up such a fuss . They would take it or leave it.

I've said davina, I wouldn't care if it was de beers diamonds, don't use my child to SELL TO ME!