Unicorn Warpath

So, a few weeks ago we had a post about the sale of (obviously fake) unicorn meat. Well, this situation has been noted and aggressively pursued from a legal perspective: purveyors ThinkGeek received a cease and desist letter from the National Pork Board, protesting the claim that unicorn meat is “the new white meat.”

We, of course, support this legal action. As has already been pointed out, unicorn meat is not white at all. It’s invisible. Duh. We believe that attempts to market “horse meat with sprinkles” as genuine unicorn meat should be contested and fined using all available legal avenues.

As Minister of Rainbow Relations, I am especially pleased to note the following paragraph in the ThinkGeek blog post discussing the company’s response to the aforementioned C&D:

UPDATE 6/21 2:50p ET: Due to popular request, and after some interest on the intarwebz, you can now download our original press release [PDF or text]. It was unfortunately rejected by the newswires so you won’t find it elsewhere–kinda like unicorn meat.

I’m surprised and pleased to see that the mainstream media have seen through this shameless self-promotional sham, and refused to cover the story. Plus, it’s nice to see that they acknowledge the extreme scarcity, and thus value, of unicorn meat. It’s not going to be filling your supermarket shelves any time soon.

Edited to add: Well, the story is spreading!

Every day I seem to find more evidence that points to the fact that my phone sucks. Latest example, this is not available on my phone.

Unicorn Jackie brought a Dilbert cartoon referring to unicorns, and I turned up my nose at it. This morning I regretted my sunday comic comedy snobbery and found this:

I think it is disturbingly funny.