On 11/22/2013 10:36 PM, Goomba wrote:
> On 11/22/13 9:57 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/22/2013 9:44 PM, gregz wrote:
>
>>> There have been many deaths to children who ingest colorful pods,
>>> pucks, or
>>> whatever. Tide dishwasher pods look like a bowl of candy.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>> Oh fer cryin' out loud! Give kids a little credit. (Not necessarily
>> their parents. LOL) One bite of that detergent pod, just a teeny bit,
>> that is NOT candy. It's not like they're adding sugar to it.
>>
>> Jill
>
> I've read some concern about them also. Kids get into poisons- they're
> not reading labels, they don't taste them timidly and they do plenty of
> damage to themselves.
>
> I'm actually more concerned with all the "gummy" vitamins on the market
> these days. It just begs for kids to be attracted to them, right???

But, but... my mom gave us kids chewable Chocks vitamins (ever heard of
those?) every morning with breakfast in the 1960's. What's the
difference between those and gummy-vitamins other than a few decades?
Both were/are geared towards children. Fruit chewable vitamins were so
parents didn't have to make kids swallow pills. I don't know about
other people but we didn't think of it as candy.

Just for fun, here's an old commercial about Chocks kids vitamins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7S2_wDAyLA

Jill