Photo of "prostate cancer cookies"

Takuan

the fibre baked goods?

elskip

And this isn’t a one off either. The Safeway near Ocean Beach also had a jar simply labeled: Prostate Cancer. I was afraid to touch it, but morbidly curious…

noen

Further signs of the death of our culture.

Fart Sandwich

That’s my favorite kind of cookie!

WordyGrrl

Maybe if they had nuts?

Brian Carnell

@20 wrote:

“Don’t laugh, Men! While there are about twice more new prostate cancer cases than breast cancer cases every year, there is more than twice more money in breast cancer research than in prostate cancer research!!”

This is, of course, complete nonsense. Please, do some research before making such preposterous claims.

In the United States, for example, the CDC estimates that in 2008 there will be 186,320 new cases of prostate cancer and 28,660 deaths from the disease.

For the same period, the CDC estimates that there will be 182,460 (female) and 1,990 (male) new cases and 40,480 (female); 450 (male) deaths.

And that’s after breast cancer cases/deaths have been in decline in recent years.

Sadly, he appears to be wrong about funding, but in underestimating the difference. There appears to be about 4 times as much federal funding into breast cancer research than prostate cancer. Federal funding for disease research is highly politicized and breast cancer advocates have done a much better job of publicizing that disease.

OTOH, malaria kills >850,000 people every year worldwide and total annual international funding to find a vaccine is about 1/2 of U.S. funding on prostate cancer.

doublethink

Those aren’t chips, man. They’re butt-tumors.

Fnarf

Made from tumors, or just causing them?

jimh

Prostate cancer brownies are even worse.

doplgangr

aaack…. i’ll have a U-No bar, please.

Keith

Look, I had just spent my last bit of cash on AIDS brownies and Hepatitis’s juice. I’m not made of money!

hmhoek

An organization I belonged to in college raised money for pediatric AIDS research. So we had an event all planned, and being college students we had T-shirts made to wear at the event. The caption was simply “PEDIATRIC AIDS”.

We were a savvy bunch, oh yes.

ROSSINDETROIT

No thanks. I still full from…
No. I can’t do it.
Somebody else please take this really obvious joke off my hands.

Takuan

think of it as a test

geekpdx

I’m betting that “fundraiser” or “benefit/s” was inadvertently left off the label.

Still makes you wonder though.

Are the cookies *for* prostate cancer? In what way? Does that mean you should eat them, um, “backwards”?

neurolux

tumors? I thought they were macadamias.

ROSSINDETROIT

TheBreastCancerMilkshake!
There, I said it. Now I have to go feed chopped spinach and mash to teh ducklings in the bathtub.

Rob Cockerham

I heard that they tried some crazy esoteric desserts on that Top Chef finale, but this seems a bit much.

strider_mt2k

Good thing I didn’t say anything about the dirty knife…

Enochrewt

Sucks that a fundraiser is going to get the shaft because of a marketing snafu.

But then again isn’t prostate cancer one of the most treatable and survivable forms of cancer? Maybe they don’t need the money.

hassan-i-sabbah

The burning fire awaits rossindetriot….

Shawn Wolfe

Whatever they are, now I seem to be craving one.
Or two.

Guy A Tremblay

Don’t laugh, Men! While there are about twice more new prostate cancer cases than breast cancer cases every year, there is more than twice more money in breast cancer research than in prostate cancer research!!

Silver Screen Kid

So funny, I just saw a plastic cup sitting at a Safeway check out aisle with a slit cut in the top for donations. It was labeled with a crappy label-maker label that simply read “Prostate Cancer”. Nothing was mentioned about a benefit, where the money might go, or who was responsible (or if it was even an official store donation station). No wonder “there is more than twice more money in breast cancer research than in prostate cancer research”

JSG

Were they under the colon chocolate bars?

porkchop

The Vons stores (same company as Safeway) in the L.A. area have also been doing poorly-worded fundraising to (presumably) fight prostate cancer.

Cashiers ask “Would you like to donate a dollar for prostate cancer?”

There are donation jars that are labeled simply “Prostate Cancer.”

And one store sells hot dogs out front. “Buy a hot dog and help prostate cancer! $1!”

litcritter

Our local grocery store recently did some kind of fundraising thing. I don’t know the details because I couldn’t get past the giant banners in the dairy section that said “Take a Bite Out of Cancer!”

duncan

It looks like they took the cookies from Chips Ahoy! and just wrapped them individually

sofa0ne

I guess cookies are better than brown ribbons that say “Support our Poops.”

Haldor

The next time I’m having a physical my doctor better not offer me a “prostate cookie.”