From Special K to Kommerce

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There’s something about having a guy from Kellogg’s as potential commerce secretary of our great nation that makes us giggle a bit, like a kid who has a sugar-high from scarfing down too many Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop-Tarts after school.

Don’t get AdFreak wrong, Carlos Gutierrez is a great success story: fleeing Cuba and selling cereal from a van in Mexico on the long road toward becoming head of Kellogg’s. (Plus, we know that many of Kellogg’s products are part of a complete breakfast, though in our heart of hearts we’ll always be a tad suspicious about Froot Loops.)

But

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