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Once upon a time, breakfast cereals for kids tended to have the word "sugar" in their names. "Sugar Smacks", "Sugar Corn Pops", etc. Then, sometime in The '80s, sugar wasn't so popular with parents anymore. So cereal makers took the offending word out of the title, although the cereals still had the sugar in them if you Read the Fine Print. This seems to have happened around the same time they edited all the violence out of Looney Tunes. This is an advertising trope and covers situations when a food or drink is renamed or restyled to try to keep with the changing times, without actually changing the product in any significant way. When The New '10s began, the sugar censorship itself proved to be a Cyclic Trope. With "High Fructose Corn Syrup" now the new boogeyman, brands like Snapple and Pepsi are proudly declaring that they use "real sugar!" Overlaps often with New Look, Same Great Taste!, New and Improved, and Asbestos-Free Cereal as a means of making marketing lemonade out of the lemons given to them by the consuming public. Some ingredients may be unfortunate as the result of Scary Science Words. Not to be confused with I Ate WHAT?!, which covers truly unfortunate ingredients in fiction. |
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Snopes, just to cover all the bases, has a page proposing tongue-in-cheek that the real reason for the name change was that the commonwealth of Kentucky had started charging a license fee for the use of the word "Kentucky". It's notable that the description of the "chicken" is identical to "Chicken Little", a being made of cloned chicken cells from the sci-fi novel The Space Merchants. |
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