# O.K., it is INSANE how gorgeous that Italian Actress from the Haagen Dazs commercial is. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017 "2014-05-22T17:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/21 "2014-05-23T00:41:51Z")
I don’t find her all that attractive and I definitely would have no interest in that kind of crazy. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/22 "2014-05-23T01:09:38Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > You and me both. [thoughtbubble] Dude doesn’t like short-tempered quarrelsome women. Perfectly reasonable. Some guys like **bienville** are down with that vibe, but not everybody needs to be. [/thoughtbubble] > [@Shagnasty](#): > > They should come with a giant warning sticker on their forehead even if they look nice at first. [thoughtbubble] Heh-heh, “warning sticker”. Dude has a point, there’s downsides to being with an aggressive shrew no matter how pretty she may be. [/thoughtbubble] > [@Shagnasty](#): > > That is a breed that shows well in the store but will hurt you if you buy it and take it home. :eek: “Breed”? “Buy”? Duuuuuuuuude. See that line there between “robustly opinionated” and “creepy as hell”? You just crossed it. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/23 "2014-05-23T02:20:50Z")
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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/24 "2014-05-23T02:24:00Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > The actress is attractive, sure, but in that way that most tv people are… Well, yes, there is a certain standard the advertising execs and casting directors adhere to. But every now and then there will be someone who just pushes all the right buttons. That appears to be the case for the OP. The thing that surprises me is when guys expect other guys’ buttons to be the same as their own. I know mine aren’t. At some point it seems to be almost as individual as a fingerprint. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/25 "2014-05-23T02:35:16Z")
She’s beautiful when she’s angry. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/26 "2014-05-23T02:45:39Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > She’s beautiful when she’s angry. I’d say she’s beautiful quite often, then. Too bad, 'cause I wouldn’t hang around five minutes in that environment. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/27 "2014-05-23T19:52:47Z")
Just thought I’d say that I love that commercial too. And it’s good to see that there are others that think barefoot women are rather appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/28 "2014-05-23T22:12:07Z")
Yes, she’s attractive looking, but rageaholics turn me off. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/29 "2014-05-23T22:20:00Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > Mmmmmm … Italian mimes … They’re quiet, at least. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/30 "2014-05-23T23:22:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The thing that surprises me is when guys expect other guys’ buttons to be the same as their own. I know mine aren’t. At some point it seems to be almost as individual as a fingerprint. I don’t think any guy expects that - what draws comment is the _strength_ of other guys’ reactions. I say that as someone who frequently gets the reaction “You think _she’s_ attractive?” and someone who’s had the same reaction to an ad as the op. I know who Catrinel Menghia is because I saw her in the first ad for the new Fiat 500 Abarth (and that ad is likely the inspiration for the ice cream ad) and looked her up. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/31 "2014-05-24T12:23:02Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > I know who Catrinel Menghia is because I saw her in the first ad for the new Fiat 500 Abarth (and that ad is likely the inspiration for the ice cream ad) and looked her up. My god, what straight guy didn’t? That ad carbonated my hormones 😉 as did the link to the image search above. She is a beautiful woman. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/32 "2014-05-24T12:53:00Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > **A mime I dated** back in the 90’s left me with a _thing_ for a particular kind of face you see in some Italian women ([Asia Argento](http://hdwallpappers.com/images/wallpapers/asia_argento_wallpaper.jpg)). Apparently it also extended to a _thing_ for ethnically Jewish women ([Lizzy Caplan](http://www.setholenick.com/data/photos/235_1celebrity_lizzy_caplan_lr.jpg), who I had assumed to be of Italian descent until I looked it up). Mmmmmm … Italian mimes … Well that’s not a sentence you hear often. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/33 "2014-05-25T06:49:53Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > [thoughtbubble] Dude doesn’t like short-tempered quarrelsome women. Perfectly reasonable. Some guys like **bienville** are down with that vibe, but not everybody needs to be. [/thoughtbubble] > > [thoughtbubble] Heh-heh, “warning sticker”. Dude has a point, there’s downsides to being with an aggressive shrew no matter how pretty she may be. [/thoughtbubble] > > :eek: > > “Breed”? > > “Buy”? > Duuuuuuuuude. See that line there between “robustly opinionated” and “creepy as hell”? > > You just crossed it. I think that this is obnoxious, pedantic, and officious. I don’t think \*\*Shagnasty \*\*was making a biological lecture. I think it was generalizations about general things, and he wasn’t advocating rape or sex-trade slavery. Stop the PC-metrics and chill. The “buy” which shocks you so is an analogy; Had you ‘read’ it, and ‘reflected’ you would have suspected that nobody had ‘bought’ any of the members of the ‘breeds’ in question. There, also, is/was no ‘store’. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/34 "2014-05-25T06:58:54Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Attention, Advertisers: wanna hold my attention as you pitch your product? Well, this is a commercial that I NEVER channel surf through, never switch over to another tab waiting for the show to return. In fact, if I _am_ on another tab and I hear the audio for this commercial I then switch _back_! > > There’s not a single A-List Hollywood actress, not a single supermodel who I find as ridiculously gorgeous as the Italian Actress on the Haagen Dazs gelato commercial. She is so damn gorgeous that I would happily live with her even if she, the actress, is every bit the crazy emotional timebomb that is the character she’s portraying. > > If anyone has the skills to come up with the actress’ name, I will thank you. My search attempts brought up nothing but Italian-American groups complaining about the negative stereotypes. > > [And she’s _barefoot_ in the commercial! I’ll be in my bunk.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2J0sMeYFHI) She’s so-so. You need to get out more. We have better-looking maids than that over here. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/35 "2014-05-25T15:06:33Z")
It all depends on what you are into but, yes, I find her quite attractive, and I could see that look really doing it for someone to the extent the OP indicates. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/36 "2014-05-25T17:09:11Z")
An average commercial break will have 4-5 actresses at least as good looking. Nice looking women are a dime a dozen on TV. I don’t see what the deal is. If the OP was a new poster, I would suspect someone hired by her agent as a shill. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/37 "2014-05-25T17:37:15Z")
I think she’s hot. She’s attractive, feisty, and sexy. Probably a wildcat in bed. But, she’d be impossible to live with. But, that’s the point, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/38 "2014-05-25T21:54:40Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I think that this is obnoxious, pedantic, and officious. > I don’t think \*\*Shagnasty \*\*was making a biological lecture. I think it was generalizations about general things, and he wasn’t advocating rape or sex-trade slavery. > Stop the PC-metrics and chill. > > The “buy” which shocks you so is an analogy; Had you ‘read’ it, and ‘reflected’ you would have suspected that nobody had ‘bought’ any of the members of the ‘breeds’ in question. There, also, is/was no ‘store’. Yeah, we got all that. It was still a pretty nasty turn of phrase. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/39 "2014-05-26T12:46:12Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > My god, what straight guy didn’t? That ad carbonated my hormones 😉 as did the link to the image search above. She is a beautiful woman. All women in ads are attractive. Some more to your tastes than to mine, some more to my tastes than to yours. Not only there are tons of super-attractive women in ads, but it’s the same all over the internet, TV, etc… Having visited erotic blogs during the last days, I’ve seen dozens, probably hundreds of women I found equally or more attractive. When someone mention in a post “hottest woman ever”, it’s almost certain that this particular woman isn’t by far the most attractive (for me) I’ve seen recently. Almost always, she’s in the category “regularly hot women seen on TV I wouldn’t pay attention to”. As already stated, tastes vary a lot and you’re “drop dead gorgeous” is likely not to appear remarkable (for a model) to me and to most other men. I too fail to see what the big deal is. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017/40 "2014-05-26T12:58:07Z")
I didn’t say that - what’s her name? Catrinel Menghia from the Fiat ads? - was OMG THE MOSTEST HOTTEST EVAH!! I said I saw the ad and thought that she was beautiful - and judging by the reactions the ad got when I have heard it discussed, I wasn’t alone. Doesn’t make her the Best anything, but the ad stood out to a lot of people, including me - probably because she was beautiful and it was a humorous play on exotic Italian women and uptight guys who don’t know what hit them… That is all. ETA: other than to say that, in a world where Flo the Insurance Lady is sometimes discussed as “hot” (I seem to recall threads here that reference that) it is very, very clear that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that ads offer a little bit of something for everyone… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/o-k-it-is-insane-how-gorgeous-that-italian-actress-from-the-haagen-dazs-commercial-is/689017.md?page=3)