I’ve mentioned the ridiculousness of Jimmy Dean Flapsticks before, maybe it’s time to throw down some sarcasm on Baconnaise? Jon Stewart recently combined these two ridiculous food products into one glorious promotion of the state of our food industry (if you’re impatient, jump to 2:00 where the action starts):
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Why You Shouldn’t Entrust Your Eating Habits to the Media, the Government, or Food Science
Alongside 11 other fantastic presenters, The Reluctant Eater spoke at Ignite Boulder on Wednesday night. Ignite is a worldwide movement of people getting together to present and share ideas but with a twist: 20 slides, each advances automatically after 15 seconds.
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This graph shows you why the Sweet Surprise campaign promoting High Fructose Corn Syrup effectively shot itself in the foot. The top blue line represents worldwide Google searches for the phrase “high fructose corn syrup” since 2004. The bottom blue line represents the number of times “high fructose corn syrup” appeared in Google News stories [...]
What do you get when you mix:
Creativity
The Matrix
Facts about industrial dairy farms
And a lot of time?
The Meatrix!
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So be thankful for living in the digital age, otherwise creative advertising like this wouldn’t exist!
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to check back in on our friends at Sweet Surprise. Perhaps I figured they’d give up on their advertising campaign promoting high fructose corn syrup? Thankfully not! If their last two commercials didn’t sway you, this one certainly will:
Sweet Surprise Ad 3 - Grab some popcorn (don’t [...]
