remember when every ad campaign for food aimed at kids had a bug-eyed, gremlin-like mascot and the mascot's schtick was that if you tried to eat the food it would appear and attack you? what was that. why was that done. pic.twitter.com/eyD38nqOSD

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) May 26, 2020

We were tougher back then, in the 1980s and 1990s. It really kept obesity down, having to fight a bug-eyed, gremlin-like monster every time you wanted, like, a slice of cheese or some cereal.