Monday, May 4, 2009

Things that make you go HMMM…

I find it funny how advertisers insult people’s intelligence on a day to day basis case in point. Yesterday I was up late doing laundry and watching Platinum Weddings (one of my favorite shows). I was hungry azz hell so I decided to drink my favorite flavored water (kiwi – strawberry by propel) to soothe my hunger pains. Well all that went down hill when the Sonic commercial came on. I personally don’t find their food appealing because it looks gross but still watching those witty 40 somethings chow down on that lard and talk about nothing made my mouth water. To make matters worse a damn Applebee’s curbside to go commercial came on with the cute and perky waitress waiting on happy and eager customers.

It was at this point that I started fuming. Not only was I hungrier than a minute before but I was pissed at the BOLD FACE LIES these restaurants were selling. I’m not saying that their food doesn’t taste good and that it isn’t as cheap as they advertise. But they are bull shitting the public with the image of their customer.

Now by a show of hands how many customers do you see at your local fast food place or restaurant chain that look like this:or this:I mean really?!!?!? But rather how many people do you know that look like this? In my eyes Mr. Sanders, Ronald Mc Donald, and Dave Thomas (God rest his soul) use the same tactics as the tobacco company to get people to buy their products. I’m sure if you saw a 250lb woman with cellulite on her eye balls gobbing down the #2 at Mc Donald’s with a diet coke you would think twice about ordering…wouldn’t you? NO APOLOGIES here…I'm just saying!!!

4 comments:

  1. what about that White Castle commercial for the pulled pork sandwich...There's a pig doing an exotic dance on stage who ends up portraying that famous scene from Flash Dance when the dancer positions herself on a chair and pulls a cord that pours a large amount of water on her body. But in the commercial, barbcue sauce splashes all over the pig. The men in the audience continues to watch the pig do its thing on the stage while licking the drippings of the barbcue sauce from coming from the pigs dancing body. this commercial is the new definition of a "hot mess"

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  2. hahaha, I think that commercial is hillarious...

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  3. Ummm...what in the hell. This just sounds like all kinds of a hot mess!!! I just can't!! I really give up I need to find this to see if it really exists!!

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  4. Girl, you are so right! That is false advertising! WTF??? I never thought of it like that. But really, they do think we're stupid... and unfortunately some of us are because these multi-million dollar corporations have amassed a crap load of wealth by tricking the average consumer into thinking that only healthy looking people eat at these establishments. What a crock of sh*t!

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