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Why oh why do food companies want to make us sick to our stomachs?
1. Carl's Jr: If the hideous sounds of smacking, slurping, and munching don't get you, the face-covered-in-what-looks-like-puke most definitely will.
2. Olive Garden: Would you like glop with a side of extra-greasy glop? How about glop rolled in a starch bomb, then served with a side of glop covered with viscous white glop sauce? We all know Olive Garden's food tastes like the gastronomic equivalent of a Yanni song. Must we see it poured out in big gelatinous messes? Bonus points: This commercial features Modern Family's Sarah Hyland giggling over her revolting manicotti dish.
3. Pizza Pops: For years this Canadian brand ran commercials featuring teenagers smacking the filled turnovers to squirt each other in the face with molten marinara goo. Somehow they found a way to make a commercial that's even less appealing. Do you know what that "brain" looks like? Intestines. Do you know what's not that great to think about while you're eating? Yeah.
4. Hidden Valley Ranch: Does that kid on the Ferris wheel have a bowl of ranch dressing he's eating from? Ugh. Look at the way they pour on that dressing at the end. Nothing I love more than salad absolutely drowned in several cups of high-fructose corn syrup, cultured buttermilk solids, and various stabilizing gums!
5. IHOP: Mom, can we please go out for a pale, flabby pancake covered with canned pie filling and Cool Whip?
6. McDonald's McRib: The sauce, cascading down the cured, preshaped meat mixture. Oh man.
7. KFC Famous Bowls: Pretty sure I scraped something that looked like this out from under my car seat once when I left a ham and cheese sandwich under there accidentally.
8. Burger King's Stuffed Steakhouse Burger: What is it about brown-with-chunks that so effectively puts you off your feed? Oh wait. Right.
zchrhktsctt, this author is lame as you said.
Check this "story" she "wrote" She copied some thread titles, did not read the threads made a false series of assumptions.
http://www.chow.com/food-news/73434/7-things-you-wanna-know-about-waiters/
I agree with the KMan, some stupid, some lame, one gets reused, the Oliver Garden on in my area has all the same but the food is artistmal raviolis. SO get used to it, you'll see it again.
And I loved the Carl's. Very very funny that she was so enjoying her food, his food and a great laugh at his expense!
yeah, made my stomach turn so bad it's growling at me... these commercials aren't disgusting at all!!! this is probably from some card carrying peta member/vegan/health fanatic.
been too long since the guy who did this was in college. nothing that gross here.
any and all TacoBell commercials make me feel queasy!
Just because the food is disgusting doesn't mean the commercials are disgusting. THe title of this article is false advertising for its contents!
Good food is good. Mean spiritedness, not good.
Favorite moment of all time: I was at McDonalds once (I know, gasp gasp, horror, etc. Whatever, I'm a poor college student) and this Indian customer spent 5 minutes trying to ask the Mexican cashier if the McRib had a bone in it. Priceless.
I didn't think any of these commercials were disgusting, and I'm very anti-marketing and pro-good food. While none of the food was my style, I certainly didn't find them stomach-turning.
Obesity problem? What obesity problem? Purveyors of these heart clogging festivals of sucrose and triglycerides have no conscience, yet we still believe their messages of healthful eating and good family cheer.
As for the KFC bowl, line it with bacon and replace the chicken with ham and you've almost got an Epic Meal Time creation.
I've yet to see an Olive Garden commercial that was less than stomach-churning. Who eats there?
My mouth is turned into a false, Joker-ish smile of pain. These are really, really stomach-turning.
@Ranwulf - my brother keeps telling me I need to try the McRib. I told him "When you can show me what animal has ribs with no bones, I'll have one." Seriously - we all have our guilty pleasures. For me it's a Big Mac.
The commercial that is absolutely nails on a blackboard for me is Pizza Hut where they advertise "meaty marinara." Marinara is meatless. Always. No exceptions. The second you add meat, it's no longer marinara. It's like saying Meaty Hot Fudge Sundae - something that doesn't exist.
This may get me pilloried here, but one of my guiltiest pleasures is the McRib. I'm an accomplished cook and know my way around the kitchen, but I swear whenever McDonald's wheels out that "limited time only" rib-shaped hunk of fat and pork by-products, it's an irresistible siren song. I am so ashamed. *runs and hides in terror of his fellow chowhounds*
I can't stand the Golden Corral commercials portraying what I guess what you call a "typical modern American family" stating "We're looking for (whatever) all for around 10 bucks". I just want to reach inside the TV and bang their heads together.
The olive Garden one gets to me. I worked in the trenches as a waitress at OG, and let me tell you... people still go 'OHHHHHHH THE SOUP AND SALAD IS SO GOOD' NO. NO. NO. Let me tell you people. they open a bag they pour it into a hotel pan and then it sits there for DAYS. *SHUDDER*
The first one is pretty terrible, but the aversion to most of these ads seems to be based entirely on a generic disdain for chain restaurants and processed foods rather than the ads actually being gross.