Again with the annoying commercials!

Cafe Society
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I have not seen that ad yte, but mushroom coffee is only a maybe,

Maybe. There are many health benefits associated with mushrooms. According to a recent review published in the journal Molecules, medicinal mushrooms popular in many fungi-infused coffee blends do have immune-boosting properties and may help regulate metabolism. And, thanks to high antioxidant activity, medicinal mushrooms may also help slow down the aging process.

But again, well-designed clinical trials on humans are lacking. And none of that research was conducted on mushroom coffee, so there’s no guarantee that any health benefits will be retained after the mushrooms are processed and blended into coffee drinks.

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You see strange creatures if you take these mushrooms. Got it.

Far too many commercials boil down to “Our spokescritter is an idiot. You are an idiot. Get the connection. Buy our product.”

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I’d continue to drink coffee, and that thing would go straight into a desktop terrarium where it could entertain me with its frantic attempts to escape.

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I could have sworn I posted about this commercial; but, now that I think about it, it was probably in the ‘commercials you don’t hate’ thread.

We don’t hate it. We think it’s cute. I find it amusing because the little Mushroom Girl is brewing the corpses of her own kind for the woman to consume.

I really need to pull Matango (1963) off the shelf and watch it again.

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One of Ishiro Honda’s (Gojira, Rodan, Mothra, etc.) lesser-known films.

Because I had a persistent fungal infection, my IM sports jersey bore the name “Matango”. Nobody got the joke. Some thought I’d misspelled “Mandingo”

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I’ve loved it (under the name Attack Of The Mushroom People) since I saw it on TV when I was a kid.

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Just saw one for Cheez It Snap’d snacks. From their website:

Made with 100% real cheese.

Sounds good, only…

Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin B1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin B2 [riboflavin], folic acid), soybean oil (with TBHQ for freshness), modified corn starch, dried potatoes, white cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes). Contains 2% or less of salt, oat fiber, sugar, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), monosodium glutamate, whey, onion powder, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), lactic acid, citric acid, buttermilk, dextrose, paprika extract color, annatto extract color, soy lecithin, garlic powder, cultured nonfat milk, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, natural flavor, turmeric extract color.

Yeah… No thanks. I’ll stick with these.

  • SEMI AGED CHEESE (MILK, SALT, VEGETABLE RENNET)
  • GRANA PADANO CHEESE (MILK, SALT, EGG LYSOZYME, ANIMAL RENNET)
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Crack. They never list crack. That is the only thing that can explain the addictive nature of Cheez-it.Snap’d white cheddar.

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My YouTube ads always seem to include a PSA about adopting teenagers. Not a decision to be made lightly, that’s for sure.

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white cheddar cheese, cheddar cheese

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Made with; not ‘of’.

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Yes. I was wondering it this Matango was the movie I was thinking about. A real hoot.

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Jeez. Now they’re promoting their food supplies with AI Noah’s Ark.

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Just how many jingles and mascots does New Jersey Mutual need to tell me that they don’t have jingles or mascots?

And past couple of days, I’m getting something with an apparently-naked woman (she’s covered in suds) in a bathtub in the middle of a football stadium, something about a Game-Day Guarantee. I think it’s for a sports betting scam?

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What, you can see the broken water main from your bathroom? Do you have X-ray vision? Are you from Krypton?

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Well, being aliens does explain the non-human behavior seen in many commercials.:grinning_face:

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The current series of Hyundai commercials (example here), featuring people who think they need to hide out because of the supposedly great price they got on their car, are really annoying.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else get creepy Oedipal vibes from this Nature Made vitamin commercial? It’s strongly reminding me of the infamous Folgers brother-sister commercial.

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It’s not just you. It’s the first thing I thought of when I saw it.

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Yeah I posted this one upthread at some point. Agree on the creepiness, and the whole vibe of “welcome home, son! Let’s do some vitamins!” is just as weird.