Comments on: “Garlic mayo?”

By: Reality Raver

Reality Raver — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:15:42 +0000

Matt Moran can make scrambled eggs and I would watch it.

Agree the ad talks down to its audience, aren’t they pitching the product to the people that would not think to eat at Hungry Jacks?
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By: Injera

Injera — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:35:36 +0000

Oh, I can’t believe Trickett is shilling the dirty bird! Hopefully her contract requires her to actually eat the stuff, then she can follow in fellow former (I’m assuming she’s “former”?) swimmer Hayley Lewis’ footsteps with Jenny Craig and then a reality show of her own.

What do they teach kids these days at the AIS?

I haven’t watched the ad as closely as either of you, though – that “slogan” passed me by, as did any absence of selling the product on the basis of, well, anything other than “Oi’m famous? And stuff?”.

By: Katya

Katya — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:28:40 +0000

I know, that ad puzzles me too, they don’t even reference the good old 11 secret herbs and spices as a reason as to why it might possbily taste good.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:26:03 +0000

Speaking of KFC ads, they’ve just done a new one with Libby Trickett. At the end of the ad, she says, “Why does KFC chicken taste so good? Because it does.”

If the advertising company got paid for that, they’re enjoying a good laugh right now.

By: Katya

Katya — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:29:04 +0000

My most hated dumbed down fast food ad was for KFC where they pronounced chicken schnitzel as chicken snitzel. Did they think the ‘sch’ pronounciation was so challenging that people would choose to order something else or worse still go to Mc Donalds instead and get an easy-to-say Mc Chicken burger?
On a totally unrelated note I jsut saw an ad for ‘The Amazing Race’, back on this Thursday, yippeee!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:37:08 +0000

My previous fast food ad hate campaign involved the McDonalds “Tastes of the World” series of hamburgers. It was quite remarkable how you could experience the full range of, say, Indian cuisine just by having one of their chicken tandoori burgers.

But I have adopted your “Garlic mayo!” saying whenever I see something that really shouldn’t need any explanation, but is dumbed down anyway.