Potential marketability of major pandemics
Archived from October 24, 2005
Kids are so crazy. They love gross things! What could be grosser than disease?
There are so many ways to market disease to kids. For example; the resurrection of Garbage Pail Kids. How about Bird Flu Lou or Black Death Beth.
Kids like to eat gross things too. Like Cold Sore Pops - A raspberry popsicle with crust on the outside. Or Eboll-o = half melted jell-o, just like an Ebola victim's half melted internal organs.
Kids like to pretend they're taking prescription drugs.
In the spirit of Mike & Ikes, how about a bag of candy coated chocolate drops - M&AZT.
Some kids like to pretend like they're taking disease by mouth 2-3 times daily, so just print AIDS on the candies. It's a teaching tool as well - kids can see how just one person can spread AIDS to all their friends.
How about band-AIDS - an abrasion cover that looks like a lesion.
How many kids hear "we need to get flu shots"? Knock out that sore throat with a delicious candy syringe to suck on during the flu season.
Where are Ben & Jerry when you need some Gangrene ice cream? Amputate it right off the spoon.
Or a pint of totally mixed up ice cream, where you never know what you're going to get - called "mad cow".
There is so much potential here.
You could just literally sell a pack of gum with the label "radiation therapy" on the front and kids would buy it. Or nasty little smarties style candies that say "SIDS" on the package. Who wouldn't want to say "I'm eating SIDS right now". Or a roll of candies called "Roll a' Ebola".
Kids would...eat that up!
Adults probably would too. Who wouldn't want little chocolate covered honey candies called "Africanized Bees". You can pop them in your mouth and listen to them crunch, just like real bees. Who wouldn't feel powerful with their insect enemies crushed between their teeth.
How about colorful little bottles filled with red liquid: A vile of West Nile. Yeah, or just a box with little grey candies inside and the outside of the box has evil looking mosquitoes in it, and it's called "'Quitos" or something similar, and it's just supposed to be eating evil mosquitoes.
It's a good idea. It's a really good idea.
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