Disney branched out

[Cadaverous Pallor]

GD bought pluots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluot) this week. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're pretty creepy fruit. When you bite into it it looks just like red, raw, dripping flesh, complete with arteries. Tastes like a plum though.

The real story here though is that the usual little sticker on our fruit has a "Disney Garden" logo and a picture of Pluto. Get it - Pluto, pluot?

Has this Disney Garden thing been going on for a while or is it new? I can't find a thing on it online.

[Alex]

It's only a couple months old, though Disney announced the first such partnership in Europe with Tesco. It was about the same time the dissolution of the Disney/McDonald's happy meal partnership was in the news a few months ago.

Here's an article (http://www.producenews.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=6080) about the announcement of the U.S. partnership (with three companies: Crunch Pak, Imagination Farms, and Ito Packaging). Apparently as part of this first deal fruits seen are peaches, plums, nectarines, Pluots, California cherries and California blueberries.

[keith - SuPeR K!]

Disney fruit... who would of thought?

[RStar]

Hey CP, I just picked one up on Friday, but still have to try it. I thought it was interesting also. Mine needed a couple more days to ripen. So I'll try it tomorrow.

Funny thing, I thought it was a Pluto and not a plout! My eyes played tricks on me.:eek:

[tracilicious]

Disney fruit... who would of thought?


We have a few Disney fruits right here on LoT. :p

[Not Afraid]

Am I the only one who gets the pun?

[Matterhorn Fan]

If you mean the thread title, no.

[Alex]

Am I the only one who gets the pun?

Depends on which on you're talking about. The best course is to explain which one you mean so that we can all pretend we got it even if we didn't.

[Not Afraid]

:)


Disney BRANCHED out. Fruit. Branch. Get it?

[Matterhorn Fan]

I wasn't aware of the rule to, upon getting a pun, immediately post "A pun! I get it!"

[Alex]

Yeah, I got that one but thought enough of CP to assume it was unintended.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yeah, I got that one but thought enough of CP to assume it was unintended.
No such luck.

[Not Afraid]

I think we need pun rules inplemented immediately.

[Matterhorn Fan]

I think we should let everyone "get" the puns and feel superior to those who choose not to post an announcement that they "got" the pun. Everybody wins, right?

What's a pluot anyways? I get the plum part, but what's the ot? Apricot? Cumquat? Squat?

[mousepod]

apricot. but I like "squat".

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I thought a pun in the thread title was nearly mandatory. Simply explanatory titles such as "Disney Garden" or "Pluto/Pluot tie-in" are boring.

I wonder why NA thought she was the only one who got the pun. :confused: The rest of you should feel insulted :pI wasn't aware of the rule to, upon getting a pun, immediately post "A pun! I get it!"Exactly.

Maybe I should add "Ha ha I got the pun" posts to the "words I'm sick of on LoT" thread ;)

[Not Afraid]

I thought I was the only one who got the pun because it took me, (uh, how long has this thread been up?) to get it.

Life is really exciting when epiphanies come late. ;)

[mousepod]

I thought I was the only one who got the pun because it took me, (uh, how long has this thread been up?) to get it.

Life is really exciting when epiphanies come late. ;)

My kid sister calls them "idiot's revelations". Hmmm.... maybe I need to start a thread...

[Not Afraid]

That's a good name for them. I get them all of the time.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

So long as it's not Old Yeller dog food, I'm OK with the branching.

http://www.scott-o-rama.com/wp-content/files/Image/old_yeller_dog_food.jpg

[Not Afraid]

I think that's what they're trying to feed to my diabetic dog.

[Alex]

Old Yeller dog food is incredibly stupid but at the same time the Disney fruit alliance in the UK was announced it was also announced that due to the success of the product in the United States it was expanding to UK.

Maybe people feed it to their dogs as a warning of what will happen if they don't behave.

[RStar]

It's the coupon in the bag for the free shotgun that bothers me.:evil:

I mean is that for real, or a joke? I'm pretty darn gullible (I thought those were REAL church signs for weeks!), but would someone realy make Old Yeller dog food? I'ts like why bother, their just gonna die anyway!:rolleyes:

And yes, I got the tital pun. The fruit never falls far from the tree, you know.

Speeking of which, I'm eating the freeky fruit right now. Tastes like a plum to me. Where's the Cot? I got ripped off, no cot. Figures. That's my life, always getting the short end of the fruit. Maybe it's not ripe enough. I had a hard time deciding whether to get the soft ones or not, I was afraid they were over ripe. So I got a red one like the picture at the store.

They could have called it an Aprium. Or a Cotum. Maybe I should plant the seed and see what I get! Or maybe not, the Disney police might be all over me for patent rights violation.

Ok, the fuit is done. Not bad for a plum, but not woth the $ per Lb. if you can get a decent plum.

Now the Grapples are pretty good! An apple with a slight grape flavor. More of a light floral realy. Again pretty pricey, but worth an occasional indulgance.:cheers:

[Not Afraid]

Sheeh, now all we need is Techie7 back posting!

[Matterhorn Fan]

Well, if it were possible to reach him on the phone, I'm sure he'd come up with a "bunch" of fruit puns.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, if it were possible to reach him on the phone, I'm sure he'd come up with a "bunch" of fruit puns.
I'm sure they'd hear the peels of laughter all the way from the Disney garden.

[Matterhorn Fan]

I should have said "produce a bunch of fruit puns."

But I've been quoted, so I can't pretend like it always said that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yes, that joke was definitely ripe for the picking.

[Not Afraid]

MY EYES HURT FROM ROLLING! HELP ME!

[Ghoulish Delight]

MY EYES HURT FROM ROLLING! HELP ME!Oh dear, perhaps you need a new pear of glasses.

And don't blame me, it was MF who planted the seed.

[RStar]

Lettuce harvest a new crop of puns, shall we? :D

Laws of the Pun Harvest:

1) We only reap the kind of puns that we have sown.

2) We reap puns in a different season than when we sow.

3) We reap more puns than we sow.

4) We reap puns in proportion to what we sow.

5) We reap the full harvest of puns only if we persevere.

6) The bad puns will always come to harvest all on their own.

:coffee:

[Matterhorn Fan]

MY EYES HURT FROM ROLLING! HELP ME!Stop rolling your eyes! You might hurt something in there, and we all know that a rind is a terrible thing to waste.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

We need to get to the core of the issue.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Goodness, who would have guessed that this would have stemmed from a simple walk to the market? Think if we keep this up, he-who-shall-remain-postless will suddenly sprout up and take root here?

[Matterhorn Fan]

We've got a spot that's ripe for the taking.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Ummmmm....I like.....fruit. <pause for laughs>

[Matterhorn Fan]

Are you sure you really peel that way about fruit?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Heehee, I think the best thing I can do here is be MF's straight man.

[RStar]

Ummmmm....I like.....fruit. <pause for laughs>

Ummm, you don't mean GD, do you? I've never even seen him go bannanas, much less be fruity!

That's what I like about you guys, you are so appealing!

[Not Afraid]

Speak of the devil. We raised the dead. Guess who's coming to dinner tomorrow? There were obviously too many puns floating around in our universe and he felt left out.

[Babette]

I miss T7 - he used to have me rolling all day long with his puns. Tell him I said "hi". :)

[Matterhorn Fan]

Tell him if he doesn't start calling more often, that we'll be forced to celery stalk him until he answers his phone.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Make him bring the gf - we want a full report :evil:

[Not Afraid]

Make him bring the gf - we want a full report :evil:

She's not coming along, but we've met her before - a few times. She's real, and wonderful.