Outstanding artwork by Powree in this strip in my opinion. I love how it turned out.
- Sign: Cereals
- Sandra: Ah, there it is.
- Sandra: WHAAA!
- Cereal box: CRUNCHIES – New formula! Now sugar-free and with loads of raisins!
- Sandra: It’s much easier to believe in the Devil than in God.
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Sounds like someone’s behind the cereal changing!
On another note, the “new formula” usually means the original will be on the shelf, too. Like Froot Loops with Marshmallows and Cinnamon Life.
Right, Sandra?
That’s actually hilarious. Hilarious. I gotta remember that saying.
Ha! 🙂 I think Powree did particularly well with all the expressions in this one, even the bunny’s.
And, I think this is a large part of why RC Cola has been going downhill ever since the 1970’s. 🙁
The old formula held on for a while in remote areas, but you had to drive a ways to find it. Luckily it was easy to identify; they still put it into the old-style bottles with real cork under the bottle caps. 🙂
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world that sugar doesn’t exist”
I don’t mind the raisins. And honestly I don’t get all the hate about them.
But man, you can’t take my morning sugar away from me!
Does anyone else find it funny that Woo walks upright in public around people, sometimes by himself, and no one around finds that odd? Gotta love suspension of disbelief!
@ Casey: I’m more surprised that they let her bring him into the store!
Whoa there… I prefer sugar over all those sugar replacements… And I hate raisins… I would never eat this cereal…
@ Lucario:
You mean like the actual original Frosted Mini-Wheats (“serving” size 4 pieces), as opposed to the bite-sized version they’re now calling “original”?
Trimutius wrote:
How are you abut they just skipping the sweeteners entirely? That mean no sugar or artifishial.
It would have probably been healthier had they kept the sugar rather than replace it with raisins. I mean a cup’s worth of raisins has about 100 grams of sugar. As a trade off you do gain 6 grams of fiber per cup. We all need more fiber in our diet, so it all balances out right . . . . that is how it is supposed to work . . . . right?
Wikipedia lists raisins as having 59.19g sugar per 100g. How can it be “sugar-free”? Did they somehow remove the sugar from the raisins? Abominable!
I don’t get it.
God created Lucifer the Angel that became the Devil.
They just let a raccoon walk into the grocery store?
Actually, I’m more of a scrambled eggs and whole wheat muffin sort of breakfaster, myself. I haven’t eaten a commercial cereal is over thirty years.
Raisins are loaded with sugar. They have all the sugar of grapes concentrated by dehydration.
@ Casey:
He’s a service raccoon.
Is it just me, or is the cast getting much more noticeably… older?
I f I saw a raccoon wandering around a grocery store, without a leash, I’d be calling animal control, ASAP.
how in the heck did they manage sugar-free raisins?
@ The J.A.M.:
It’s like with the Merry go Round child safety. They portray a change as an improvement, but it’s in reality the opposite.
@ myth buster:
Came here to say this, that is NOT sugar-free!!! XD
@ Morbid Mobius:
No they’re definitely aging over time.
But if you believe in the Devil, you also inadvertently believe in God.
Dave wrote:
A day for 1-2 pages?
Good Sandra… give in to your emotion… let your anger flow through you and your transformation to the dark side will be complete.
“Let us piss from the vine, let us claw in the mud, let us swing with both fists as we writhe in the blood, let us walk on stained glass, sinners one, sinners all…”
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
My daughter as a child got hyperactive after consuming artificial colours and sweeteners and certain fruits, this current craze for replacing sugar with all sorts of chemical sweetners for her would have been an utter nightmare, i had to memorize the E number list ( not all of them are artificial) and read every box i put in my trolley.
Shes now in her mid 20’s and its not quite so bad, but shestill has to avoid them in excess, a handfull of raisins would still give her the same reaction/energy a can of red bull would give someone without the allergy, and shes never had caffiene in her life.
This would be her reaction to this banner on her cereal too.
@ sampla:
Still called “Crunchies”, so maybe removal of sugar from the raisins was a side effect of making the raisins crunchy.
There’s a game!!! Sign me up!’
@ Xshadow:
Well… After furtherr inspection, I realize it needs a lot more work, and love before its ready
@ Trimutius:
Aspartame makes me hungry so sugar free food is a negative. That is if they even replaced the sugar at all.
There’s a cereal like this called Raisin Bran, but I actually like it….
Wait a minute, Those crunchies aren’t chocolate chip… THOSE… ARE… RAISINS… WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?
WOO, DESTROY ALL THE FOOD DISPENSERS, AND DESTROY THAT CRUNCHIE ABOMINATION. ALL I WANTED WAS CHOCOLATE CHIP CRUNCHIES ! WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE? WHY WOULD YOU EVER MAKE CRUNCHIES THAT ARENT CHOCOLATE CHIP?
And then Sandra became a super vilain XD
Yeah, compare Sandra now to the beginning of this comic. She definitely looks older than she was before.
Why all the hazin’ on the raisin?
@ sampla:
thats the usual tricks of the food industry…like saying ‘our strawberry yoghurt has only natural aroma, nothing artificial’ which sounds good – until you learn the ‘natural’ aroma isn´t from strawberries but from moldy saw dust. i´m not kidding, that IS what they make ‘natural strawberry aroma’ out of. yuck!! gimme back artificial aroma, please!
SmartAlec105 wrote:
Who is going to stop him?! I’m not going to take on a raccoon without protective gear. They *might* call animal control. This is a fantasy strip, after all.
……some people hate raisins?
Annon wrote:
No, you might simply believe in a malevolent god. That is one solution to the problem of evil. If there were an all-knowing, all-powerful, benevolent god, suffering should not exist.
I once saw a comic in which one alien asks another why one of his universe simulators uses slightly less energy than the others. He replies, “That one lets bad things happen to good people.”
She’s taller, too. Compare this comic to the first panel in this one, where Woo’s ears are well past her hips in height, and now, where they barely meet her belt line. Unless Woo’s gotten shorter, then Sandra’s gotten taller. http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2008/11/27/0011-heaven-and-hell/
Also with a rabbit advertising raisins, no thank you
@ artemi:
That’s eleven years old Sandra. We know she’s taller now. The question is, is Sandra now taller than she was at her early twelve?
Woo is kind of a real raccoon in this strip. Just chillin’. No expression.
… well, real raccoons walk on 4 legs, but that doesn’t count.
Is it me or Sandra is growing up?
actually Sandra its easier to believe in no deity, unless its the raccoon god, that you’ve seen your self
Or when they discontinue a product that you love and wonder why in the world they did that? My small addiction was to SoBe Dragonfruit (the real kind, not the Vitamin Water stuff). Now? Good luck trying to find it.
Two words: New Coke. 😛
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