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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
2021-06-01 14:35:23
"What I thought of was: ‘Puffballs in fields is poisonous but out of packets is delicious". from The Bagthorpe Saga Absolute Zero?
MikeK
Since: Jan, 2001

I don't know if the cereal slogan contest was exactly central to the plot, or it's just the one weird little detail I remember: Anyway, the protagonist and friends are trying to come up with a new slogan for a cereal called something like Puff Balls: one character suggests something along the lines of "Don't Worry, They're Not Poisonous!", explaining that a Puffball is also a poisonous mushroom (this isn't actually true, though they can be easily mistaken for different, poisonous types of mushrooms
- that could just be an error made by the character though). Also, the cereal may not have been called Puff Balls, but it was definitely something similar to the name of a real life mushroom and probably had "Puff(s)", "Balls" or both in the name.
Edited by MikeK