Hot dogs will show your children no mercy

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Keep your kids away from the terrifying hot dogs! That’s the message of this PSA from the Cancer Project, a group that wants all processed meats—which apparently increase one’s risk for cancer over the long term—removed from school lunches. Of course, hot dogs aren’t exactly Joker-caliber villains, so the ad tries to act tough in a different way: by having the kids straight-talk about the cancer they will suffer later in life. Which only serves to remind us yet again how annoying the kids-talking-like-adults

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