# Ragu- The spaghetti sauce for kids who have just watched their parents have sex **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960 "2012-08-09T14:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/1 "2012-08-09T14:44:15Z")
I saw [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD0wUmO8jk) commercial on TV the other day, and I still can’t believe it is saying what I think it is saying. Is there another interpretation of the commercial? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/2 "2012-08-09T14:51:10Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > Is there another interpretation of the commercial? Perhaps he saw Mom with beauty cream all over her face. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/3 "2012-08-09T14:52:38Z")
I notice that while the dad makes an appearance at the end of the commercial, mom is forever hidden from view in her sexual shame. Hussy. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/4 "2012-08-09T14:58:26Z")
:eek: No, seriously… :eek:! WHAT. IN. THE. FUCK. WAS. THAT? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/5 "2012-08-09T14:59:41Z")
The hell? Is that a real commercial? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/6 "2012-08-09T15:00:21Z")
That, sadly, is the correct interpretation. I can’t believe I’m actually agreeing with a YouTube commenter, but he was right when he mentioned the ad should have been for Prego. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/7 "2012-08-09T15:06:34Z")
I didn’t believe it either. But I checked and I found it’s part of a [series](http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681423/children-whove-walked-in-on-parents-going-at-it-ragu-feels-your-pain). Who is this aimed at? The kids? The parents? Who would feel moved to buy Ragu because of these? Is the association that he just saw mom’s lips around a limp piece of spaghetti? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/8 "2012-08-09T15:09:02Z")
Maybe he saw his dad earn his red wings and wants to simulate the experience. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/9 "2012-08-09T15:20:49Z")
Somewhere, an ad exec is crowing to his client that we all are discussing the shittiest pasta sauce this side of ketchup. Mission accomplished, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/10 "2012-08-09T15:23:51Z")
It’s not parody? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/11 "2012-08-09T15:31:00Z")
Watching them stir that sauce combined with the mental image I had does not make me want to buy Ragu. In fact, I may not be able to look at tomato sauce again with the same innocence I once had. Then they show the dad openning the jar and breaking pasta into water. Did he wash his hands first? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/12 "2012-08-09T15:31:02Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > Somewhere, an ad exec is crowing to his client that we all are discussing the shittiest pasta sauce this side of ketchup. Mission accomplished, I’d say. That’s my thinking as well. Its going to be all over facebook, people are talking about it, etc. And Prego has got to feel totally scooped by this! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/13 "2012-08-09T15:32:27Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Watching them stir that sauce combined with the mental image I had does not make me want to buy Ragu. In fact, I may not be able to look at tomato sauce again with the same innocence I once had. Then they show the dad openning the jar and breaking pasta into water. Did he wash his hands first? Console yourself in the fact that the smell of Ragu is much better than the smell of fishy red cottage cheese that comes cascading out of a woman’s vagina. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/14 "2012-08-09T15:32:58Z")
If I had little kids running around the house “ragu night” would now be our new code word. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/15 "2012-08-09T15:47:46Z")
Maybe mommy was on the ragu. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/16 "2012-08-09T15:52:44Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > If I had little kids running around the house “ragu night” would now be our new code word. barely.kept.coffee.from.keyboard ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/17 "2012-08-09T15:54:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Maybe mommy was on the ragu. A french bread stick would soak it right up. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/18 "2012-08-09T15:58:07Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Watching them stir that sauce combined with the mental image I had does not make me want to buy Ragu. In fact, I may not be able to look at tomato sauce again with the same innocence I once had. Then they show the dad openning the jar and breaking pasta into water. Did he wash his hands first? Do people still break pasta in half? That is so 1950’s. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/19 "2012-08-09T16:06:08Z")
Their next one will be mom walking in on junior wanking- Times like this call for Ragu Alfredo Sauce ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960/20 "2012-08-09T16:09:20Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > Their next one will be mom walking in on junior wanking- Times like this call for Ragu Alfredo Sauce Did you really have to pick a white sauce? :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ragu-the-spaghetti-sauce-for-kids-who-have-just-watched-their-parents-have-sex/630960.md?page=2)