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.
Another vote here for the Henckels Santoku. I've even brought it with me to my in-laws when my wife and I are going there for dinner...because everyone usually gets asked to pitch in a bit.
there is a grilled banana and chocolate dessert that I learned from my dad (who got it from the chef of his favorite restaurant).
it's absolutely delicious, easy to make....and you get a LOT of weird looks when you go to put it on the grill.
Hard choice.
Either my Victorinox 8" chef's knife, or my Wustofff Santoku.
My Love affair with knives made me start a blog for beginners
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.
;-p
First of all, the "Fourth Meal" commercials for Taco Bell...as if Americans didnt already have a fat-ass stereotype, we need to promote the idea of adding another full meal onto the day? And have it be from Taco Bell? Ugh.
Also, these arent necessarily bad commercials but I never understand why Sonic spends so much money advertising in New York City when the closest restaurant is 7 hours away in southern Virginia. But yes, I know thats where it is, which means I've checked...because those commercials made me want it!
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"
mmmmmmm
Healthy!
Tyler Florence smilingly telling me how he 'created' Applebee's steak entree with onion rings and a salad w/ blue cheese annoys me to no end. Does he really thing this dish hasn't been done to death?
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.
This is not really related, but I hate Trix commercials. Those darn kids and that stupid rabbit! He's always complaining about how he's white and admiring the myriad colors of Trix (which are a little creepy, IMO), but doesn't he realize that white light is the origin of ALL colors in the spectrum? :( He should take a gander on the bright side and consider himself every color at once.
@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.
@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.
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