Don't Try This at Home

Damn kids, they always take everything so literally!

Snack-food companies love to use snazzy special effects that show their new products leaping into being through a kind of logic-defying alchemy. The technique almost had dire effects a few weeks back, though, when a 4-year-old Connecticut boy, apparently wowed by a Nabisco commercial, tried to follow its example of how to spontaneously generate Kool Stuf Oreo toaster pastries, the Associated Press reports. Heading into the kitchen, the child slotted some Oreo cookies into the family toaster and waited expectantly for the delightful pastries to come flying out.