Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

We were sat on the sofa last night when the new advert for Christmas red & green M&M's came on TV. I quickly grabbed my newly purchased box of red and green M&M's and started waving it in the air shouting "Advertising WORKS!!!" To which D sprayed his drink out of his nose while laughing (it's becoming quite the party trick for him.)

Yes I brought the new M&M's because I'm suggestible to anything Santa endorses. Did I hear you ask how they taste?? Well it turns out red and green M&M's are the worst ones in the pack. It's like eating gritty chocolate. I don't know if that's the strategy, to make them more festive-like they've gone and added ground up sawdust from santa's workshop into the mix but that's exactly what the m&m's taste like. They don't advertise that on TV. No wonder Santa has a heart attack at the end of the advert.


P.P.S You all know I'm still gonna eat them anyway

2 comments:

  1. I think they do take the stale ones and decorate them for holidays, which really stale only works for Circus Peanuts and Peeps.

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  2. Yeah stale peeps taste way better than normal peeps. If you were at all concerned about my green n red m&m poisoning do not fear I've accidentally dropped them on the floor just as I did with last nights meal...that seems to be my new party trick. Tripping and dropping stuff.

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