If we took marketing slogans literally

veryangryman

Supervalu: Real food, real people.

Does this mean Tesco is fake food and fake people (maybe the latter because of auto checkouts)

Dunnes Stores: Always better value.

Are we to assume that the others are always worse?

teediddlyeye

Coca cola "the real thing" everything else is the matrix or a figment of our collective imagination.

anewme

When I read about places that advertise “ hand cut “ sandwiches, I often wonder if somewhere out there is a deli where the staff miraculously balance the knife between the cheeks of their arse and cut the sandwiches that way.

Anyone for a butt cut breakfast roll?

Stark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058329150/if-we-took-marketing-slogans-literally

I took a different "literal meaning" from "real food, real people".

whisky_galore

SuperValu. More like MediocreValu.

mikewebber

Advertising shaped me

Grew up watching all that crap on tv

Only realised later it was all nonsense designed to sell a product

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121558827#Comment_121558827

Soylent Green

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121558813#Comment_121558813

I imagine a specially trained staff of karate experts, neatly chopping sandwiches with one swift blow of the side of their hand.

EmmetSpiceland

Carlsberg would, pretty much, stay the same.

zell12

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Doe Tiden

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121558813#Comment_121558813

if the one in my local deli started offering butt cut sandwiches I’d be there for breakfast lunch and dinner!

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121560113#Comment_121560113

The Sega ad is hilarious, "pulling and squeezing your knob ... shooting all over the place". 🤣🤣

Stark

Surely that Sega ad isn't real.

Skyrimaddict

Red bull gives you wings. !

q2ice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121561056#Comment_121561056

It is defeinitely real - that and more like it appeared in UK Adult magazines in the 90s

I was surprised the first time I one.

SuperBowserWorld

Guinness is good for you !

But also a gateway drug.

RiderOnTheStorm

VHI are opening 360 Health Clinics ..... are they really opening over 13 clinics in every county in the republic? Like F they are ... I think its a play on words where 360 degrees means a full circle , implying that the clinic they are opening will offer all round (pun intended) care . But at no point do they alude to what 360 actually means ...

And "if your baby wants to move on from being breastfed, try our formula" .... IF? .... are they implying that there are some adults out there that are still being breast-fed?

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121562158#Comment_121562158

While I know what you're saying, really the service they refer to is 'Vhi 360 Health Centre'. I don't think they refer to 'Vhi 360 Health Centres' at all.

artanevilla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121561056#Comment_121561056

They knew what they were doing.