…Really?
Submitted by: dunno source via Oddly Specific
The lesson here being: if something’s boring, just rotate it 45 degrees to the left and get the party started!
I looked it up. That’s not even an actual diamond. Apparently Shreddies didn’t pass high school geometry either.
*Edit*
Ok, ok, I stand corrected. It IS a diamond.
I like the idea of rotating something 45 degrees to make it better, it really worked for the Swastika. Now there’s a party!
What if what you’re turning is round, it looks the same
It looked rotated 45 degrees to the right to me :-p
So up until point I was eating square “Diamond Shreddies”?…ugh…I feel so dirty.
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More like rhombus shreddies, amirite?
Actually, your description is “oddly specific”. There is no need to state whether the rotation was to the left or to the right (not to mention that neither makes sense–it is unspecified which part of the object is moving right or left: you meant a clockwise or counterclockwise rotation). Simply stating that the object was rotated 45 degrees is sufficient and succinct.
Actually, Jason…you can tell from the direction of the slats on the face of the ____ Shreddy that it was either rotated 45* to the left, or 225* to the right. For what it’s worth, it was also magnified slightly. Perhaps the author was not specific enough. Hmm? Hmm? What do you say to that?!?
it is indeed not a diamond.
Diamonds dont have 4 equal sides or angles. They have 2 sets of equal sides and 1 set of equal angles
It might look silly but in fact this was a major marketing win. Shreddies was doing bad and they didn’t have the means to or the interest in developing a new product to entice customers so in stead they came up with this new presentation and naming of the product. As the story goes people loved it and some even claimed the diamond shreddies tasted better even though there wasn’t any difference apart from the new package and name.
You’re my hero.
The shreddies marketing was covered in this ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man.html
WAAAT?! IS NAWT TEH DIUMUND! It’s a rotated RHOMBI! Sorry, rhombus.
I must note that the fact that anyone cares whether or not it is, in fact, rotated this way or that or exactly a diamond shape is far more “oddly specific” than anything our lovely narrator could possibly have said.
But diamond shreddies are so AWESOME!