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In the UK we have a yogurt advert that has two women competing in what looks like a major chess tournament, but its actually a 'food resisting' competition or something like this. There is a big spread of food between them and there are timers seeing how long each will last before caving in and eating. One woman looks confident, while the other is sweating and staring hungrily at the food. Finally the hungry woman eats while the other looks on triumphantly. Then the plug for the low-fat yogurt comes on saying that if you eat this yogurt you won't feel hungry for hours. or something like that.
Its made me so mad I could spit like a camel.

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I also hate the "adding flavor to taste" healthy choice commercials.

There's a Popeye's commercial in MD that has a horrible song playing that has a line along the lines of "if I could have one thing before I died it would be..." Yeah, that's what most of us would choose as our one thing before we die. Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Then again, I live in Baltimore, so who knows.

Pretty much any McDonalds commercial in the last 20 years get's my vote for most annoying/disgusting. Their newest ad campaign with vapid dope fiends finding ecstasy in the most banal of food stuffs really just creeps me out.

My wife is tired of me being tired of the whole "add flavor to taste" nonsense" but she's tired of it too.

Can Kit-Kat puh-LEASE replace the "Gimme a break" jingle/catch-phrase? I mean, gimme a break ...

Tony the Tiger is not a decent cheerleader.

The animated silver "things" the kids turn into on the Capri Sun ads are so not well done, they're not even medium well-done.

The Special K ads where time stops are just so Clockstoppers. The one where there are the two gals, and the stomachs rumble because they're skipping breakfast to lose weight when obviously they have zero need to lose weight and shouldn't be dieting anyway because they're so skinny and should get to Denny's for the big breakfast three meals a day since they're just plain anorexic ...

Oops, sorry ren, ya' hit a nerve ...

I hate the BK commericals with the big headed king. He creeps me out.

I also hate the Jif peanut butter commercial with the two boys who want a sandwich but there is only one slice of bread left so they have to share. It pisses me off every time I see it because it does nothing but encourage selfishness.

This is offtopic, but all fabric softener commericals should be banned forever.

I would like to add my vote for "adding flavor to taste" as the most inane & illiterate phrase ever in food advertising....I too just cringe when the commercial comes on. I feel the entire ad is proof that Rachael Ray & Sandra Lee are evil....as that is the type of phrase they would come up with...and I fear they have infiltrated Madison Ave.

Oh...and I loath all the commercials with creepy fiberglass characters...the "burger king" as mentioned, but also the "Quaker" and even the Dairy Queen couple (which was mildy humerous the first time, but got old very quickly).

The sad part is the fact that we REMEMBER all this idiotic commercials/jinlges means that the advertisers did their job right.

That particularily goes for the Quiznos/Rodent commericals.
Did that make me want to eat there? NO.
Did that make me remember the name? YES?

The ones that really bug me are anything that uses the word "EXTREME"....I'm looking in your direction Taco Bell.

@Steamy Kitchen: I don't disagree that those rodent things aren't annoying, but I actually like em cos I LOVE the other stuff the creator has done. But you shouldn't watch it if you want to retain your brain cells or if you want to keep WE LIKE THE MOON out of your head.

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really really really hate the Rachael Ray Dunkin Donuts commercials- especially the one in which the world stops and security is alerted to get coffee because rr yawns. and the other one where she drinks it and says "delish." and any other ones that were made. i'm cringing writing this.

There was a short-lived KFC commercial claiming the letters stood for "Kitchen Fresh Chicken." The ad showed a bunch of people in an office and someone said "There's kitchen fresh chicken in the break room" (or something along those lines). One of the workers then says, "Sounds gourmet!"

Ummmm, no. Sounds like greasy fast-food chicken to me!

@roboppy--thanks for defending rathergood's Spongmonkeys! I adore "We like the moon" and when I saw them in the Quizno's commercials I was in heaven. But clearly the majority of the viewing public wasn't in on the joke.

Count me in on the Rachael Ray hatred. I also hate the old Wendy's (?) commercials for their "Chicken Cordon Blue" sandwich, in which the announcer pronounced "cordon" in such a bad French accent that it was as if it was spelled "cordin." I would cringe every time it came on.

There was also a commercial for an energy bar that showed, among other consumers, a woman in mid-run, who said, "To me, food is fuel..." That may be the saddest statement I ever heard as a testimonial.

I hate the current Little Debbie commercial for cinnamon rolls. The whole family is sitting down to breakfast and everyone has a cinnamon roll except for the youngest child. The child knocks his toy on the floor so that the father will pick it up, allowing the child to steal the dad's cinnamon roll. Then the mom arrive with more cinnamon rolls and everyone enjoys a laugh.

This ad pisses me off because, as a father, I always make sure that my kids are fed before me. The whole commercial makes me grind my teeth.

How about the "it's time to get back to natural" mayonnaise commercials? It all starts out sounding so healthy, "It's time to get rid of unnatural ingredients in our food" "It's time to be healthier", "It's time for natural" blah blah and then, "It's time for MAYONNAISE"
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Healthy!

All kids' food commercials are annoying, disgusting, insulting, etc.

But I think the very worst food ads of all are the Carl's Jr. ads where people are eating a 7500 calorie "meal" in the hugest, barely chewed bites possible, talking with their mouths full, with food running down their faces -- uuuugggggghhhh!!! Not sure if Hardee's as they're known in the East runs the same ads or not, but truly the most offensive advertising ever.

And, ohmgosh... re Sonic commercials... we find those hysterical... um... in a totally dumb, ashamed of ourselves way. My husband originally hails from TN where there are tons of Sonics (a nice option since there's no In-n-Out there... yet...).

My favorite Sonic commercial... when the guy orders a wuh-rap, other guy corrects his pronunciation, they argue about whether it's Rench or Wuh-rench... Wuh-rong!

We still say wuh-rong and wuh-right around here. Pathetic, I know, but you never know what will tickle you.
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