Red Region Inferno

Do it like a toucan.
Toucan Sam that is.
His #1 most famous line is… “Follow my nose, it always knows”
Yep. This is a tattoo of the famous Froot Loops cereal mascot Toucan Sam.

Toucan Sam "Follow my nose, it always knows".

I enjoyed many a bowl of these tasty cereal yum yums as a child.

Loved the commercials with Toucan Sam leading the way through the jungle… yep, they had me addicted through advertising.

Recently while staying at the Hampton Inn in Seattle I found they had boxes of Froot loops down stairs with the free breakfast.
I decided to grab a box and to my surprise… “blue loops”!
WTF… When did that happen?
The Froot Loops I remember didn’t have blue. It is cereal sacrilege.

I know Archie Bunker wouldn’t have been into blue loops.
(For those that didn’t watch All In The Family – Froot loops was Archie’s favorite cereal)

Oh well… here are some great Froot Loop facts.

• Kellogg’s introduced Froot Loops in 1963.
• They have made other varieties of the cereal including a lower sugar version and a marshmallow version.
• Froot Loops cereal is fortified with 11 essential vitamins and minerals and is low in fat.
• The into on the frootloops.com site annoyed me so much I couldn’t even look at the site to get any cool froot loops facts to post here.

So… not to have a short and boring post.
Lets look at the term “Froot Loop” as “Fruit Loop”.

The word “Fruit Loop” is sometimes used as an area description for cruising and hanging out in gay circles… usually you find many gay bars, restaurants, stores and other businesses targeted to gay men and women in these areas.

A fruitloop is a descriptive term for people we consider crazy. “That dude is a fruit loop!”

Fruitloops are a common slang term for those sets of six rainbow-colored metal rings worn as necklaces, bracelets, etc to show gay pride.

To do a “fruit loop” is slang for walking through a gay bar or club while  looking for some action.

Hmmm… I think that is about it. If you have some others let me know.

So… The tattoo.

No big story to it at all. The guy who got it pretty much got the idea from looking at pictures of other cereal tattoos I had done…. He was checking them out and asked .. “You done Toucan Sam?” and I said “nope”… so he said “I want Toucan Sam”.

That’s the whole darn story.
Told ya there wasn’t much to it.