Comments on: Eat it! EAT IT!!!

Eat it! EAT IT!!!

Capn — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:58:26 -0800

No Escape!
It's in your your music, plastered all over your public spaces, in your movies, on your clothes and in your art,
it's over there --------------------------------------------------->
(as long as this is the first story on the main page), it's in your books, in your schools
It everywhere except inside your body... until now

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:19:30 -0800

The horror of Product Placement McDs places a logo on their breakfast McGriddle sandwiches - first seeing it, wondered the flavor it would leave in my mouth.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:30:40 -0800

Dude. Marketing and advertising has gotten completely out of hand. Now that want to put messages on my Procter & Gamble Pringles® brand potato chips! Where will it end? We need to do something . . . like, maybe we could manufacture our own sneakers under an anti-brand. Like a black dot or something, you know? And then we could all walk around in solidarity and protest. End sarcasm. Honestly, this isn't all that big of a deal. What's the difference between this, and promotional materials printed on the box (canister in the case of Pringles, I suppose), or a prize hidden in a box of cereal. Tirades about advertising in the AdBusters vein isn't particularly helpful. Everyone savvy enough to be in on the "culture jam" already knows the issues through and through, and those who don't probably don't care all that much. Better to incorporate additional critical thinking and analytical skills in the classroom. Calling attention to insidious marketing ploys only makes them all the more insidious. Besides, trivia questions printed on potato chips sounds kind of cool . . .

By: Capn

Capn — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:39:17 -0800

The point I am trying to make is the first two words of my post. This is a novelty now, but do we want a world where there is no space, not even the food you eat, that is not trying to sell you more things?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:39:25 -0800

You know, I don't need to taste it to have an idea what it would feel like in my mouth.

By: AccordionGuy

AccordionGuy — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:43:59 -0800

Printing on food will mean that I can finally get O'Reilly's "In a Nutshell" books...IN ACTUAL NUTSHELLS! w00t!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:04:36 -0800

You can have your branded Pringles. Just don't mess with my Miss Vickie's chips.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:13:00 -0800

But on the other side of the battle: 1) I never see TV commercials anymore with my Tivo & 30 second skip. 2) I never see web ads. Both are much better than a few years ago.

By: chandy72

chandy72 — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:15:48 -0800

I, for one, welcome our new trivially-blessed potato crisp overlords... Shouldn't they be called Printgles or something? Honestly -- and I don't mean to be demographically dismissive here -- is anyone who actually buys and eats Printgles going to mind?

By: freebird

freebird — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:25:31 -0800

Maybe everyone has always been trying to sell everything to everybody, everywhere - it's just more explicit now?

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:38:07 -0800

Nature abhors a vacuum. Marketing abhors a blank surface.

By: shepd

shepd — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:37:03 -0800

To solve this one buy your pringles from a country that doesn't speak a language you know. ????? f?te a?t? ta patat???a patat?? ??µ???ta? ?a a????s??? pe??ss?te?? "Pepto Bismol".

By: shepd

shepd — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:40:00 -0800

Great. Metafilter doesn't accept greek. Oh well. Just imagine what it said instead. One more try: ????? f?te a?t? ta patat???a patat?? ??µ???ta? ?a a????s??? pe??ss?te?? "Pepto Bismol".

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0800

Pringles? Is this something one would have to eat unhealthy junk food to know about? If it pisses you off, don't eat them.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:18:22 -0800

Prediction: the one space that will never be plastered with cross-promotional messages - toilet paper. Prove me wrong, corporations of the world...

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:25:42 -0800

You know, I don't need to taste it to have an idea what it would feel like in my mouth. Eating for taste, would avoid these foods.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:33:16 -0800

1) I never see TV commercials anymore with my Tivo & 30 second skip. let's just pretend that ads are working fine on tv, that way they'll have less investment in inviso-popups that get past your efforts to stop them. and as for the pringles? everyone knows that they've been putting subliminal messages on the surface of their chips, designed to program the consumer to consume more. This just means they're showing the ink. /tin foil hat and really, nothing strikes me as demonstrative of America's determination to 'hold the course' of eating chips. Olestra's anal leakage warning is a thing of advertising beauty. Impossible to translate. It just doesn't compute.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:34:00 -0800

I've read my M&Ms since I was very small. They've never lied. Just a reassuring mantra of "mmmmmmm" ... and I agree.

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:47:10 -0800

If they leave a funny taste in your mouth, just wash them down with some PepsiBlue.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:21:16 -0800

The Card Cheat, you don't seem to recall novelty toilet paper with Osama's face on it or the one that's just hundreds of stupid jokes. Hey, got a good idea to print on a roll of TP? Head on over to Printed TP and have it specially made. But then, I'm not a corporation of the world. And grabbingsand, mine vacillate between MMMMMM and WWWWWWW which I'm not sure what that means.

By: Down10

Down10 — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:48:40 -0800

Boy, Fat America loves those potato chips!

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:44:04 -0800

???? f?te a?t? ta patat???a patat?? ??µ???ta? ?a a????s??? pe??ss?te?? "Pepto Bismol". Don't worry; I didn't understand a word of that.