There’s a commercial in which someone sits on a box of Cheez Nips and there’s an explosion of neon orange dust. The voice-over says something like: “Cheez Nips, full of delicious Kraft cheese.”
I like how they depict the fact that Cheez Nips are covered in neon orange dust but how can they legally claim that that crap is actually cheese?
What are the more honest and least honest commercials you remember?
As a total aside-- does anybody remember the movie with Dudley Moore in which he played an advertising exec that they institutionalized because he started telling the truth? Volvo-- they’re boxy but they’re good!
Well, the Kraft website lists the ingredients for “Cheese Nips Crackers Bold Cheddar Chips.” The list of ingredients includes “cheddar cheese (made from cultured milk, salt and enzymes),” so I think your premise that the product doesn’t contain cheese may be incorrect.
I don’t know if this counts, but I have it on good authority that Keebler cookies are not, in fact, made by magic elves living in a tree, but by ordinary mortal humans at a factory in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The announcer doesn’t say it’s cheese. He says it’s Kraft Cheez. There’s a difference, you know.
Anyway, I love the moment in the commercial when we’re looking at the glass-walled office from outside, everything suddenly disappears in a burst of orange powder.
Did you notice that one of the actors in this movie was Dick Cusack, father of Joan & John. Never heard of him, nor knew those two came from an acting family.
It also seems that the other Cusack siblings Ann, Bill, & Susan are actors as well. Ann’s been on alot of things and I recognized her from A League of Their Own and Ghost Whisperer. It looks like almost the whole fam damily was in Grosse Pointe Blank
The HP software to tweak your pictures. Shows a picture of a boy in the foreground and ever-changing backgrounds. Edit your pictures, send them out, blah, blah, blah.
In small type at the bottom: HP Such-and-So Software does not change backgrounds. Technically they’re not lying but it seems pretty misleading to me.
Getting back to the OP (remember the OP people?) I’d nominate Blockbuster for the least honest ads in recent memory. I know there are people here who refuse to admit the obvious, but if they charge you a fee and you only pay it if you’re late, then it’s a late fee.