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Mranttenna: Added a minor detail about a potential reference to Repo! The Genetic Opera

2025-11-12T23:54:36Z

Added a minor detail about a potential reference to Repo! The Genetic Opera

Cheesesentience at 17:17, 24 March 2025

2025-03-24T17:17:11Z

Cheesesentience at 17:17, 24 March 2025

2025-03-24T17:17:01Z

172.70.85.70: /* Explanation */ Do we? Anyway, spelling corrected.

2025-03-23T19:07:50Z

‎Explanation: Do we? Anyway, spelling corrected.

Bb777: /* Explanation */

2025-03-21T23:16:12Z

‎Explanation

172.71.218.180: Removing the candy example because they tend to get grouped with fatty foods and discussed in tandem as "junk food has sugars and fats and is bad for you" so I disagree it's common knowledge candies don't contain fat

2025-01-31T21:26:30Z

Removing the candy example because they tend to get grouped with fatty foods and discussed in tandem as "junk food has sugars and fats and is bad for you" so I disagree it's common knowledge candies don't contain fat

172.70.86.63: /* Explanation */ sp.s

2024-05-14T19:12:51Z

‎Explanation: sp.s

Apollo11 at 15:30, 14 May 2024

2024-05-14T15:30:37Z

Natg19: /* Transcript */ cats

2023-10-03T02:12:33Z

‎Transcript: cats

172.70.162.77: /* Trivia */ Better linking..?

2022-06-14T10:06:41Z

‎Trivia: Better linking..?

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 The competing claims, however, sets up the ''hopefully'' false risks involved in whether to choose the one with definitely no asbestos (but possibly contains swine flu) or the other that definitely has no swine flu (but may include asbestos).
-* GenCo probably stands for {{w|Generic brand|Generic}} or General Company and may be a reference to {{w|General Mills}}
+* GenCo probably stands for {{w|Generic brand|Generic}} or General Company and may be a reference to {{w|General Mills}} or GeneCo from the musical film {{w|Repo! The Genetic Opera}}.
 * [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallows Stay Puft] is also the company that produces marshmallows in the movie franchise [[wikipedia:Ghostbusters_%28franchise%29| Ghostbusters]].

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−	~~{{incomplete\|Need explanation for other cereals. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}~~
	{{w\|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.		{{w\|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.

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 * [http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallows Stay Puft] is also the company that produces marshmallows in the movie franchise [[wikipedia:Ghostbusters_%28franchise%29| Ghostbusters]].
-* [http://redfarmnyc.com/ RedFarm] is a Chinese restaurant in NYC.
+* Redfarm is likely referring to cereal companies that advertise their "farm freshness", maybe a reference to Pepperidge Farm. It is also a [http://redfarmnyc.com/ Chinese Restaurant] in NYC, although this is most likely a coincidence.
 Misleading advertising is also the subject of the previous comic [[624: Branding]], and of subsequent comics [[870: Advertising]] and [[993: Brand Identity]].

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Need explanation for other cerials. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
+{{incomplete|Need explanation for other cereals. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 {{w|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.

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		+	{{incomplete\|Need explanation for other cerials. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
	{{w\|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.		{{w\|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.

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 {{w|Asbestos}} is a fibrous material most commonly known and used for its heat-resistant properties. It was commonly used in housing insulation until its astonishingly destructive effects on human lungs were discovered. The use of asbestos in housing is now banned, but asbestos is still quite common in laboratory hot pads, as well as in concrete industrial buildings where the risk of it getting into the air is minimal.
-The comic depicts a common advertising trick taken to an absurd extreme; quite clearly all of the cereal products depicted are asbestos-free, but most have opted not to advertise that fact (if it even occurred to them at all) because it should be obvious. However, since only the one brand of cereal is advertising it, it implies that it is not unusual to make cereal with asbestos. A more realistic example can be found in {{w|Confectionery|confectionery}} products, wherein the term "{{w|fat}} free" might be applied when it's clear that {{w|sugar}}, {{w|gelatin}}, and other ingredients involved in the product are in no way related to, or contain, fat. Note that in some countries, like Germany for example, this practice is actually not allowed, since it counts as "misleading advertising".
+The comic depicts a common advertising trick taken to an absurd extreme; asbestos would not be encountered nor added to cereal and thus it is considered obvious that all cereal is free from asbestos. However, here one brand of cereal is advertising this fact, implying that it is not the norm and the other cereals contain asbestos. Note that in some countries, like Germany for example, this practice is actually not allowed, since it counts as "misleading advertising".
 While the suggestive implication might be that competitive products do not declare as asbestos free because they cannot truthfully say this, the irony may be that the "asbestos-free" disclaimer could also cause a customer to ''distrust'' the product on the grounds of {{w|Damning with faint praise|damning by faint praise}}—if the best thing they can say about a product is that it doesn't contain a toxic building material, do we really want to know what actually ''is'' in this stuff?

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 ==Trivia==
-* This comic is the TropeNamer of a [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsbestosFreeCereal trope], as well as being the page image for the trope's entry.
+* This comic is the TropeNamer of a {{tvtropes|AsbestosFreeCereal|documented trope}}, as well as being the page image for that trope's entry.
 ==Transcript==