If you really love him, say it with syrup

 Posted by on 21 January 2010  Modern Life
Jan 212010
 

This video was a little too on-the-money when it comes to advertising that tries to get you to consume high-calorie, high-fructose, high-salt, high-fat, high-profit processed foodstuffs.

I read somewhere the other day that, even though millions of people go hungry every day, millions more are obese. As a planet, we produce something like 4,000 calories per person per day — or, twice as much food as the planet needs. Unfortunately, ads like the ones spoofed in this video encourage such overeating that we end up with not enough to go around.

But who am I to talk. I just came back from the gym, where I pedalled a bike for half an hour, feeling guilty because my “lunch” had been the remains of a bag of Joe’s Tasty Travels Toasted Praline Almonds (full list of ingredients: almonds, sugar). The kicker is that, on the back, under the depressing Nutrition Facts box, it says “Packed By: Downright Healthy Foods L.P., Toronto.”

Grant Hamilton

  • http://www.cgnoto.com Noto

    There needs to be more ads like this on primetime imo.

  • MPot

    Awesome spoof. Now we need one spoofing the dishonest claims of the organic food and supplement industry.

    Nihilism — not just for Germans anymore.

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Speaking of “organic” claims, I read an interesting tidbit in a magazine the other day about organic wines — they are few and far between, but they’re out there.

    Except they suck. Why? Because sulphur dioxide isn’t classified as organic, even though it’s a wine additive that’s been used since Roman times to prevent oxidation and bacterial growth.

    Meanwhile, pesticides and fertilizers tend to fuck with the fermentation of the yeast, so most winemakers are, de facto, pretty organic, though they don’t qualify for it because of the SO2.