Live from Bacon Center
Do pets evaluate pet food on the basis of appearance? Maybe, maybe not. But I’d bet the resident humanoids do, which can lead to uncomfortable situations like this:
So I was cleaning out my jacket pockets as I got home from the cigar lounge tonight, looking for my cell phone, which I haven’t seen since before I left to go there, and sitting on my desk next to me is a beggin strip.
It looks like fake bacon. Tofu bacon. Turkey bacon. It looks ALmost like bacon.
In fact, it looks JUST enough like bacon that it’s triggering my bacon center.
And it’s sitting there.
On my desk.
Staring.
At me.
He did not give in to the temptation. The scary part, of course, is that there exists a possibility for temptation in the first place. Certainly no one is going to look at Alpo and think “Dinty Moore.”
McGehee »
15 January 2012 · 10:20 am
There was once a Lassie-licensed dog food brand called “Recipe.” It did in fact look exactly like beef stew. It also smelled exactly like (cold, uncooked) beef stew.
I don’t know how it might have tasted, but I had difficulty eating canned beef stew for quite a while after we stopped buying Recipe for our dogs.
Jeffro »
15 January 2012 · 4:00 pm
Guess I’m adventurous – I did a taste test of a bacon strip years ago. I tore off a small chunk while feeding my dog.
Mighty bland – not even salty enough, nor much of any flavor at all.
I kinda doubt I’ll be an Alpo eating retiree.
Dan B »
16 January 2012 · 10:38 am
I regularly look at Dinty Moore and think Alpo, so why not the converse?