Yes, I’ve seen that viral email, and no, this isn’t about that.
So I looked at the Onion’s horoscope today. It’s not my birthday, but that’s not the point:
Now I hadn’t a clue what the ‘Gerber baby’ is/was, so I interpreted this one jaw-dropping (but to me also very funny) way. A quick google later, and I realise that The Onion probably had a different interpretation in mind. Still funny, but less Hannibal Lector.
What say you?
I had to think very hard to work out what you meant by that different interpretation, so count me in.
I can’t even think of an alternate interpretation.
It’s babies! Gerber baby food is made out of BABIES! They’re making baby food out of babies! Next thing they’ll be breeding them like cattle for food. You gotta tell them. You gotta tell them!
Soyent green!!
This is why I don’t eat Chinese food.
I had a boss one time who totally looked like the Gerber baby.
Isn’t that the main interpretation? I can’t think of any other…
Thirded?
Alternate interpretation - if you have ever eaten Gerber baby food, you would know it tastes like sh*t (most baby food does). Ergo, the food probably killed the Gerber baby!
I think that’s what they were going for too.
I’m guessing that when the OP found out Gerber was a brand of baby food, she(?) assumed the joke was that the pureed food was so bad or disgusting that the baby either died from eating it, or starved to death from not wanting to eat it.
oops: should’ve previewed.
Mmm…babies.
Perhaps they were referring to this urban legend?
I like Girl Guide cookies. Made with real girl guides!
…you speak from experience, I take it?
So what was your interpretation? I can only think of one…
Your boss looked like Humphrey Bogart?
I assumed the alternative explanation was that old, toothless people, would eat crappy puréed food.
Soylent babies was my interpretation. Somehow I didn’t conceive that baby food would taste like crap, thereby killing the Gerber baby, simply because I don’t eat baby food.