Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Guess they didn't read it out loud first...

The radio station I listen to (online; there are approximately zero radio stations that I can pick up that play the kind of music I prefer) at work is running these ads for this fiber supplement stuff.

Apparently, the Pencil Shavings Manufacturers of America have found a way to market their product: persuade health-obsessed mommies to sneak it into their family's meals. (I have big issues with food-being-sneaked-in-to dishes - as someone with very specific food intolerances, eating a dish that, say, they've sneaked (snuck?) bananas into will leave me miserable [think lactose intolerance's results] for hours. And for someone with an actual food allergy, the outcome could be even worse.)

The idea behind the ad is that fiber transforms things, but in a way that's barely noticeable (until, I suppose, it's time to visit the loo). So they're describing all of the foods it can be put into, and re-naming those foods by substituting an "f" for one of the first letters.

Except, I guess, no one bothered to read the ad copy out loud before recording it.

One of the foods that can potentially be altered with the addition of fiber is spaghetti and meatballs.

Which, they now call "spaghetti and f-eatballs." Except it SOUNDS like "Spaghetti and FEETballs." Which isn't appetizing at all, even if you try to imagine pork hocks as the "feet" that's going into them. Most people, I suspect, don't like the thought of eating feet.

The chirpy announcer also suggests finishing the meal with a "frozen fogurt!"

Um, no thanks.

2 comments:

nightfly said...

If it already starts with an f, just drop the f - and there isn't any food that I can't rhyme!

What a foopid fidea.

Anonymous said...

There was cellulose-supplemented high fiber bread on the market about thirty years ago, when a high fiber diet was last in fashion. They also added sawdust to the bread in Germany during WWII when flour was scarce.