Kellogg's donates Michael Phelps cereal to charity
I never stopped to wonder what Kellogg's would do with all those boxes of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes with Michael Phelps' picture on them. I guess you can't just go ahead and sell them and say, "After we get rid of these he won't be our spokesman anymore."
It turns out, according to an AP report, that Kellogg's donated about 3,000 boxes of Phelps cereal to the San Francisco Food Bank.
The food bank should have sold them off as curiosities. People will collect anything. They probably could have made more money for charity than the cereal was worth that way.
Surely there wasn't a Phelps cereal recall, was there? Or were there no boxes on grocery store shelves yet? My guess is that there's more to this story.
Comments
I saw him on a box of Frosted Flakes a few months back.
Posted by: matt hudock | March 12, 2009 3:23 PM
Very possible there was a "distribution only" clause in the paperwork for this donation.
Posted by: Eve | March 12, 2009 3:30 PM
You know that Snap, Crackle and Pop are puffin' on some dank kine bud and watching SpongeBob right now.
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy 2 – Event Horizon Party Planner | March 12, 2009 3:57 PM
El and Eve -- apparently, some of the boxes donated to the food bank did wind on eBay, at least according to this report.
Posted by: hmpstd | March 12, 2009 4:10 PM
Hubby and I were in either Costco or Sam's Club last week and saw some Kellogg's Phelp's cereal. We were going to buy them all, sell on Ebay and become rich and famous but decided at the last minute that we didn't feel like all that work :-)
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | March 12, 2009 4:34 PM
Since we're doing song lyrics again;
Legalize it.
Posted by: Lissa | March 12, 2009 5:34 PM
Someone left the cake out in the rain
Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy 2 – Resident of Dudeville | March 12, 2009 5:50 PM
Lissa, I'm with you, Michael & Peter Tosh!
Posted by: Joyce W. | March 12, 2009 8:40 PM
We have a huge box of Frosted Flakes from BJ's with Phelps on it. Purchased just before the famous photo.
Posted by: karen | March 13, 2009 3:59 PM
I have grown so tired of the endless rehashing of the Phelps situation.
Posted by: Robert of Cross Keys | March 14, 2009 8:10 AM
Thanks a lot y'all; now I'm hungry for Thai food!
Seriously though.....Legalize it. It'll only 40 years too late for who-knows-how-many ruined lives, not to mention the murdered innocents. What a country.
Posted by: dave the suave | March 15, 2009 4:25 PM