Yesterday I was down at the local little league field and my son asked me to go to the snack shack to get him some Big League Chew bubble gum. The problem is - the shack is no longer carrying Big League Chew because of its resemblance to real chewing tobacco.
This is a little much if you ask me. I like Big League Chew.
When I grew up we had candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars. They didn't make me want to grow up and smoke (although I do enjoy a good cigar now and again but never in front of the wife or the kids because they can't stand the smell). Personally, most of the people I know who smoke - smoke because they saw their parents smoke. I honestly can't think of a single person who smokes cigarettes that didn't have a parent who smoked. It wasn't because they were subjected to candy cigarettes as a kid.
The difference in taste between Big League Chew and real chewing tobacco is no different than the difference in taste between gummi worms and real night crawlers and yet the snack shack still has gummi worms. Aren't they concerned that the kids will grow up to be like Frank Burns and eat worms?
Maybe the makers of Big League Chew could have gone more PC and renamed the product Big League Shredded Gum. That worked for the folks who changed the name of the cereal Sugar Smacks to Honey Smacks back when sugar was proclaimed the root of all children issues.
I'm not sure why this little intrudance of the PC world into my world has ticked me off - but it has.
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