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Old 09-07-2005, 04:20 PM  
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Originally Posted by throwdown
no way man, it's the same thing i believe...

the Turtles were always eating pizza, that was their favorite food. pizza pizza pizza

Popeye was always eating spinach...it "made him stronger" i'm sure kids didnt go out eating assload of spinach after watch the cartoons. kids dont like spinach. I know i didnt when I was younger.

with the ninja turtles always eating pizza and then going out and kicking ass, i'm sure more kids wanted pizza after watching it than kids wanting spinach after watching Popeye.
Well, while you present a good argument, it doesn't work that way. Heres why: Pizza ingredients and pizza itself is such a large industry, there are too many things that go into making a pizza for one company or industry to really benefit. For example, what kind of pizza did they eat? Do you know? I don't. Who would be benefitting most? Farmers who grew grain to make dough? No. Tomato farmers who grew tomatoes for the sauce? No. Not the same.

Spinach on the other hand, is a very small industry that could benefit as a whole by a surge in spinach consumption. Combine that with the fact that they get government subsidization and that the government also is in control of the Navy, and you have a cartoon character that eats spinach and is in the Navy. All of the sudden you get a spinach sales boom and an influx of kids ages 4-12 registering for Naval positions. It makes perfect sense.
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