Thanks to Gastropoda for pointing out that none other than The Guardian is on the Cod bandwagon, piling on the Whopper Virgins ad campaign. I had not realized how pervasively awful the campaign was -- in my day job, I have been spending some time thinking about the Global South, (aka the Hemisphere Formerly Known As The Third World), and even the ability to imagine people beyond the reach of fast food (for the moment), as "Whopper Virgins," is so chillingly imperialistic it would give Rudyard Kipling a postmortem Woodrow.
But in its own way, you know what is just as bad as Whopper Virgins? Those little flags on the kiddie carts at Whole Foods labeled "customer in training." Of all of the ways one might construe children, "customers in training" is among the worst. If I ever have occasion to take a small child to Whole Foods, you can bet we will do a little arts and crafts project and make a flag of our own to put over the WF flag. I would welcome submissions of actual or imaginary flags for the Whole Foods Kiddie Cart Piracy Project.
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