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As a general nutritional rule, we’re always a little suspicious of foods that require a cute animated spokesperson to give them some kind of appeal they can’t achieve by just showing us the food. Gunaxin’s listicle of 25 Famous Animated Food Mascots does a good job of chronicling that very problem, and though we agree [...]

Today is the Pillsbury Doughboy’s birthday. Happy birthday Poppin’ Fresh! (We didn’t actually know he had a real name until just now.) Created in 1965, Poppin’ was originally going to be an animated character, but instead first appeared in claymation. More recently he’s been depicted with CGI. There are all kinds of sordid undercurrents of [...]