New thread: Now with 80% less saturated fat

Duggy747 · 29-05-2007 04:38PM #1

Anyone else find these poxy "400000% less" ads irritating? Does anybody actually feel guilty in the manner of: "Oh God!! I shouldn't have ate that Malteaser, now my ankles are going to swell and boils will appear on my face spewing hot pus over Mr. / Mrs. Right just as I'm about to give them a kiss!" instead of "Oh God!! I shouldn't have ate that, I'm going to regret that in the morning!!"??

I.S.T. · 29-05-2007 04:40PM

"New and Improved" is the worst. If it's improved how can it be new, if it's new how can it be improved?????

Ruu_Old · 29-05-2007 04:43PM

0g Trans fat! It has been on Pringles and other crisps for a while now. We have lost our way.

smashey · 29-05-2007 04:43PM

Cover everything in good old lard.

Duggy747 · 29-05-2007 04:46PM

Is it just me or have the old crisp favourites lost their taste? Burger Bites have a "Now Baked!" stamp on them and they're not nice anymore, Monster Munch I'm sorry to see go, I bloody loved them!

AlmightyCushion · 29-05-2007 04:50PM

What about the "as seen on tv" sticker. I've seen some well established brands (can't remember them now) use this recently enough. I could understand years ago when tv was still kinda new but nowadays what's the point. Wow you can afford an ad on tv socan some german guy trying to sell me the golden hits of the seventies.

Ruu_Old · 29-05-2007 04:52PM

Duggy747 wrote:

Is it just me or have the old crisp favourites lost their taste? Burger Bites have a "Now Baked!" stamp on them and they're not nice anymore, Monster Munch I'm sorry to see go, I bloody loved them!

Some other company are making Monster Munch (is it Walkers now?) for a while now and changed everything, bastards! :mad:

whiskeyman · 29-05-2007 04:54PM

IrishSpeedTraps wrote:

"New and Improved" is the worst. If it's improved how can it be new, if it's new how can it be improved?????

'New & Improved!'

And to think, all this time I've been eating 'old and inferior'...

Duggy747 · 29-05-2007 04:55PM

Some other company are making Monster Munch (is it Walkers now?) for a while now and changed everything, bastards!

Yea it's Gary Linnekar and his Walker buddies! I'll start bombing embassys if anyone touches Tayto Waffles or Hunky Dory's Buffalos with their health bonanza!!

AlmightyCushion · 29-05-2007 04:55PM

Ruu wrote:

Some other company are making Monster Munch (is it Walkers now?) for a while now and changed everything, bastards! :mad:

I think they're called mighty munch or something. God I used to love the old monster munch. They were full of artery clogging goodness.

AlmightyCushion · 29-05-2007 04:57PM

Duggy747 wrote:

Yea it's Gary Linnekar and his Walker buddies! I'll start bombing embassys if anyone touches Tayto Waffles or Hunky Dory's Buffalos with their health bonanza!!

There is the hunky dory lite ranch. The salt and vinegar doesn't resemble the taste of the normal salt and vinegar hunky dory's. They taste more like cardboard.

Archeron · 29-05-2007 05:04PM

Somebody in our office bought a bag of low fat sugar. Is that even possible?

Duggy747 · 29-05-2007 05:06PM

Archeron wrote:

Somebody in our office bought a bag of low fat sugar. Is that even possible?

WTF?

There's fat in sugar?

Ruu_Old · 29-05-2007 05:11PM

There is that artificial sweetner called Splenda.

Degsy · 29-05-2007 05:14PM

There's somey poxy bottled water that claims to have "15 times more oxygen" or something..wtf?Thats great if you're filling your goldfish bowl with the stuff but you cant absorb oxygen by drinking it!

cornbb · 29-05-2007 05:15PM

Worst of all is when they claim to measure an increase/decrease in something that is not measurable. "You're skin will look 20% more radiant!!" I feel sorry for the fcuking idiots who fall for this stuff.

Pherekydes · 29-05-2007 05:19PM

Duggy747 wrote:

WTF? There's fat in sugar?

No. Sugar is pure carbohydrate. As you obviously knew, anyway.

smashey · 29-05-2007 05:24PM

"As seen on TV"? Great. I saw a nuclear submarine on TV once and now I want one.

ruprect · 29-05-2007 05:35PM

New & improved- cheaper ingredients, improved our profits.

As seen on TV- thats why it costs so much, the fancy ads that YOU pay for- think of the price of vile beers

Washing powders have been out for decades, and get "now even more cleaning power" every few months, at this stage it should only take a few grains of powder to wash an army camps worth of muddy clothes.

"Low fat muffins"- 95% sugar, no room for fat,
"Milk is only 4% fat"- yeah but you drink it by the half kilo.

cooperguy · 29-05-2007 07:28PM

The ones I like (well hate really) are the products that claim they have only 0.00006% fat but they are filled with suger which is converted directly into fat if it isnt used as energy straight away!!

And of coarse there is the 0% suger products that are filled with artificial sweeteners that are twice as bad for you but are still marketed as healthier

And of coarse the pointless low fat milk that drops the fat content of milk from 3% to 2% or 1.5% its such a small drop its pointless unless your drinking cartons of the stuff everyday. Just give up the chocolate cake instead!!!!

Miguel_Sanchez · 29-05-2007 07:51PM

'New Improved Recipe - Original Flavour'

First off - Improved Recipe just means that they've figured out how to make it with cheaper ingredients.

And if they have a new recipe - how can it still be original flavour?

And 'original flavour' normally just means - MSG MSG MSG!!!!!

zuutroy · 29-05-2007 07:52PM

cornbb wrote:

Worst of all is when they claim to measure an increase/decrease in something that is not measurable. "You're skin will look 20% more radiant!!" I feel sorry for the fcuking idiots who fall for this stuff.

Ha...exactly what I was gonna post....What exactly is the SI unit of fabulousness?

aidan_walsh · 29-05-2007 07:53PM

zuutroy wrote:

What exactly is the SI unit of fabulousness?

1 Minogue.

simu · 29-05-2007 08:27PM

Yeah, I hate those x% less/more things. They're nearly all misleading. I pity the fools who rely on ads for their knowledge of good nutrition. No wonder people are having weight problems!

The worst is the ones for kids that go on and on about say, containing calcium and neglect to mention that eating something that's coated in sugar and chocolate is not exactly a nutritious breakfast.

Or the kids' ads that address "mums" or say "mums know that blah blah blah". What about the fathers? Do they not get a say? Do they think the mothers are total skivvies doing all the child-rearing? :mad:

rant over

KTRIC · 29-05-2007 08:54PM

And what the f*ck does "Thorten" mean ??

I wish these f*ckers would stop making up words to sell the same face cream year in year out.

Oh and while I'm on the subject that DNAge cream, how the f*ck can a cream change your DNA ???

29-05-2007 09:27PM

AlmightyCushion wrote:

What about the "as seen on tv" sticker. I've seen some well established brands (can't remember them now) use this recently enough. I could understand years ago when tv was still kinda new but nowadays what's the point. Wow you can afford an ad on tv socan some german guy trying to sell me the golden hits of the seventies.

Not too sure if we can mention products, a mod can edit..

Staire! As seen on the Late Late TV show

... what? 10 years ago?

byte · 29-05-2007 09:54PM

Deleted User wrote:

Not too sure if we can mention products, a mod can edit..

Staire! As seen on the Late Late TV show

... what? 10 years ago?

Ah, but you'll be delira with your Stira!

29-05-2007 10:43PM

KTRIC wrote:

And what the f*ck does "Thorten" mean ??

I wish these f*ckers would stop making up words to sell the same face cream year in year out.

Oh and while I'm on the subject that DNAge cream, how the f*ck can a cream change your DNA ???

Note how they all say "APPEARS to reduce wrinkles"

KTRIC · 29-05-2007 11:06PM

I made a bloody fool of myself when i went into a Skoda dealer the other day and asked for that car thats made out of cake

Pure false advertising, the bastards :mad:

Jesus Wept · 30-05-2007 12:11AM

10% BIGGER BAG

...but what about the fcúking contents!?

simu · 30-05-2007 12:29AM

The-Rigger wrote:

10% BIGGER BAG

...but what about the fcúking contents!?

Think of all the extra air you're getting, ingrate!

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