Look Who's Talking

A milk carton cries as you go by. A bag of cookies bets that you bite a chip. A hot dog says, “Bite me!” It’s not something from David Lynch. It may be your local supermarket.

Someday, anyway. ConAgra has started the madness with its Parkay Talking Tub, the hot topic among those proud point-of-pur chase audio philes. As unsus pecting shoppers (500 million of them, Parkay hopes) walk down grocery aisles, motion sensors on some tubs will cause them to blurt out: “The label says Parkay, the flavor says butter.”