For some reason, Pillsbury is sponsoring a BuzzFeed post (you can probably just stop reading here, if you’d like) about Cleveland sports fans’ post-season aspirations. To wit, there are so many better things in this city; why worry about the playoffs?
The savvy listicle whips out reasons that Cleveland fans should divert their attention elsewhere, away from the tragedies taking place on Sunday afternoons downtown.
Pillsbury’s Cleveland knowledge begins like so many other lists: “The Cleveland Orchestra is universally recognized as one of the best in the world. Who needs football when you have this much culture?” The “article” never really recovers from its get-in-line Cleveland fanfare. At one point, the copywriter from BuzzFeed (or is the writer actually from Pillsbury?) actually extols the virtues of Kid Cudi’s hat.
And then there’s this oddity:
Cleveland was the first city to have fully integrated electricity… so that’s good!
What the hell is that even supposed to mean?
Of course, the post ends with a little nod to Pillsbury’s corporate stewardship (namely, providing frosting for your football-themed pizza).
Apologies may be in order for even forwarding this nonsense to your attention, oft-respected readers, but, really, we all need a moment or two of thorough head-scratching now and then.
Now go bake some Pillsbury cookies and enjoy your day.
This article appears in Dec 18-24, 2013.
The favorite…ummm….post-game munchies for Bess and Perez.
I mean I kinda agree with the idea that so much attention here goes towards Cleveland pro sports when there is a ton of unrecognized things about the city that don’t get enough deserved attention.
Not even gonna read it
Pillsbury needs to look closer at Cle…
We are kinda foody so that should have been the talk point….
Not sports…
Elsewise we can look for other products instead of Pillsbury….
Pillsbury is right.
You might want to do some research… Pillsbury is divided into two divisions. The refrigerated side( crescent rolls, pizza crust etc.) which is owned by General Mills… This is the the company that sponsored the buzzfeed article. The picture on the heading of your article is of a cake mix… The baking side of pillsbury is actually owned by smuckers a proudly ohio owned and operated company, who had nothing to do with the sponsorship of the article.You might want to clarify before you post pictures and mentioning the banning of products of a non associated company that employs our very own Ohioans.
So the Pillsbury Dough Boy hates Cleveland and Christmas? Got it. Look at that, I learned something new today.