# Offensive Kraft Dinner Commercial **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928 "2001-10-27T04:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/21 "2001-10-27T14:06:00Z")
Growing up in a low-income Catholic family back in the days of no-meat Fridays, Lents, and Advents, my sisters and I ate far too much “barfaroni and sneeze” and far too little tuna, fishsticks, etc. The merest whiff of that malodorous concoction festering atop the stove makes me retch. I’d rather have a pack of Ex-Lax overdosed ferrets take dumps in my grave than to endure Eternity with the smell of “Krapp’s”.What a revolting commercial!!! ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/22 "2001-10-27T14:24:53Z")
I haven’t seen it but it sounds funny. There has been lots and lots of funeral / gravesite humor. I agree with others who have said that as long as it is not poking fun at an actual recently deceased person or their family then it is A-OK. And sometimes the latter is even ok (witness John Cleese’s [eulogy](http://www.pythonet.org/videos/for-graham.rm) for Graham Chapman). Death is inevitable. It is sad. It is the ultimate undefeatable bogey man. Humor is our weapon against it. It is our shield against the fear of death. We can never defeat it but we can take a few good potshots at it before it takes us down. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/23 "2001-10-27T15:28:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by August West \* > \*_Stop saying Kraft Dinner! Goddamnit, it’s Kraft **Macaroni and Cheese** _! Sheesh! > > Also, who the hell could afford name-brand Mac and cheese in college? I always bought the cheap-ass store brand, 4 for $1. > \*Unless, of course, you are in Canada. \*\* **Kellibelli** is indeed from Canada. As for funeral humor, I recall a commercial for Power Bars showing a funeral procession where one of the pallbearers collapses and drops the casket, illustrating their slogan of “don’t bonk.” I figure that if my aunt found that commercial funny as we were gathered at her mother’s house the day before the wake, it’s probably not an inherently offensive form of humor. As for the Kraft commercial, I think it’s only a mild exaggeration of my own brand loyalty towards that stuff. (Interestingly, my grandfather, whose widow’s funeral I was referring to above, worked for Kraft for his whole life, selling something like 5 billion pounds of Kraft cheese.) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/24 "2001-10-27T15:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I mused on the fact that a moose heart was among the foods offered, when my grandfather died of a heart attack. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it was delightfully appropriate, or absurdly ill-thought out. I’m probably the only person there who noticed it, but… If I **ever** look on a menu and see _moose heart_ on the menu, you’d be damn sure to think I’d notice whether it’s a funeral or not! Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t eat it… ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/25 "2001-10-27T15:57:11Z")
All this talk of Mac and Cheese…it’s 10 am and I just woke up… After reading a few posts I searched through the cabinets and found that we’re all out. Damn! I’ve got a craving now! ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/26 "2001-10-27T15:58:15Z")
**waterj** said: > [@](#): > > (Interestingly, my grandfather, whose widow’s funeral I was referring to above, worked for Kraft for his whole life, selling something like 5 billion pounds of Kraft cheese.) THAT is a LOT of cheese. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/27 "2001-10-27T19:14:16Z")
It might’ve been a better idea to have it a dog funeral. Now wait, lets make them animated dogs, so as not to offend those who have lost their dog loved ones. Then it would’ve been funnier and more tasteful. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/28 "2001-10-27T19:28:13Z")
Hey guys? Kelli is right now experiencing the death of a loved one, and this might have been extremely bad timing. If you ask me, it just sounds kind of stupid. But then, I don’t like Kraft glop. Give me Lipton Pasta and Sauce 3 Cheese Rotini-and it doesn’t get all gunky when it’s reheated, either. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/29 "2001-10-27T19:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*Then it would’ve been funnier and more tasteful. Yes? \*\* Mmm…good taste is easy to recognize. ---
**Author:** ![velouria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@velouria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velouria)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/30 "2001-10-27T22:31:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by August West \* > \*_Stop saying Kraft Dinner! Goddamnit, it’s Kraft **Macaroni and Cheese** _! Sheesh! > > Also, who the hell could afford name-brand Mac and cheese in college? I always bought the cheap-ass store brand, 4 for $1. > \*Unless, of course, you are in Canada. \*\* I agree. It would be a better advertisement for ramen noodles. Everyone knows that’s what you eat in college. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/31 "2001-10-28T04:45:26Z")
You are all certifiable. Thanks Guin 🙂 Actually, its the funeral wreath in the logo shape I find the most innappropriate, it just seems wrong. Like if they had a crucified noodle hanging on a cross… I dunno, I just think there are some things that dont need to be commercialized, and with all thats happened in the states, I think grave humor is maybe not the best plan. And it IS ramen noodles! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/32 "2001-10-28T05:29:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bwk \* > Open graves and funerals just aren’t funny, ever. > > Using them as a joke is offensive. Evidently you never saw the movie, _The Funeral_. IIRC, 'twas directed by the same individual who brought us _Tampopo_. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/33 "2001-10-28T16:42:32Z")
to all of the people who find a commercial offensive, i say this: GET A LIFE YOU are the reason that we normal people have to be careful about what we say, lest it be a sexually, racially, or a religiously offensive remark. YOU are the reason that when i played little league baseball, we didnt keep score. “there shouldnt be any _losers_” _sniff_ yeah, great. so when when your kid grows up and tries to get a job, he will be destoyed when he _loses_ the position to someone _better_ than himself? oh wait…my apologies. i should have said he/she, or s/he, just to be fair. to the person that wrote this original post: you have never laughed at an ethnic joke? been slightly afraid when going through a neighborhood of different racial backgrounds? (i’m trying my best to be politically correct here) i personally hate cheese. never liked it, never will…it would be an EXTREME insult if someone poured it on my grave. but i would not give a damn as i would be dead. a funeral is for the living. if my college friends decided to put cheese sticks, with cheese sauce, and then grate parmesan over that…i would not care. if it made them happy, so be it. IT IS A COMMERCIAL FOR GOD’S SAKE. oh wait…i forgot i am not supposed to mention “god”. not “PC”. we all have different opinions. it is impossible to please all of the people all of the time. what is funny to one, isn’t funny to another. get past it, move on…i cant believe someone actually wasted their time writing this post. i cant believe _I_ am wasting my time writing this post. maybe it is revenge for never getting credit when i threw that no-hitter as a child… ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/34 "2001-10-28T17:53:28Z")
gee, uh, **jc** , you’re kinda all over the place there. Hie thee to a leech. “Wellbutrin” shall be your watchword. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/35 "2001-10-28T18:24:51Z")
oddly enough, i took wellbutrin 100mg for 6 months…they told me it was depression…i didnt believe 'em…j/k…tell me some of my rant doesnt ring true though? i think this goes deeper than a kraft cheese commercial… ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/36 "2001-10-28T18:47:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by particlewill \* > \*\ ***waterj** said: > > > [@](#): > > > > (Interestingly, my grandfather, whose widow’s funeral I was referring to above, worked for Kraft for his whole life, selling something like 5 billion pounds of Kraft cheese.) > > THAT is a LOT of cheese. \*\* Suprisingly not as much as you think when you look at that whole picture. I work for Oscar Mayer (a division of Kraft) slicing bologna and cotto. The past three weeks we have sliced and put over 3 million pounds in the box. I’ve been at OM for nine months now, and we have hit the 3 mil mark one other time, and come damn close every other time. He probably put out a bit more than what you think. It’s amazing really. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/37 "2001-10-28T18:51:01Z")
Sorry, that is 3 million every week, not 3 million over the span of three weeks. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/38 "2001-10-28T20:54:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > \*\* > is it just me or is that offensive? > \*\* I don’t see what’s offensive about it. They’re using funerals _in general_ to push their product. Been done a thousand times before. They’re not picking on anyone in particular, which would indeed be in bad taste. Drawing a parallel between this and 9/11 is really stretching it. Funerals are a pretty frequent event that most people have experienced, so it’s something almost the entire target audience can identify with. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/39 "2001-10-29T01:56:52Z")
Who brought 9/11 into it? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928/40 "2001-10-29T01:57:03Z")
You’re most welcome, **Kelli**. I think personally that my father, a funeral director, would probably get a kick out of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offensive-kraft-dinner-commercial/89928.md?page=3)