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Discussion: Pet Peeves?[]
Salty Crab
Sous-Chef (158 posts)
Oct. 18, 9:18AM Central(US)What are some things that bug you, but not enough to really get angry over?
I'll start off: I hate it when people insist on pointing out the proper "scientific" definition of foods. Like if you call cashews nuts, and they're all "Actually, they're legumes." Or people who always have to say something about how tomatoes and avocados are fruits and not vegetables, as though that means anything useful in the kitchen. I don't care if it's really a fruit to a botanist, I'm not putting tomato slices in a fruit salad, so what difference does it make?
Full disclosure -- yes, you guessed it, venting about this is my real motive for creating the thread this morning. :)
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Peter Peter
Short-Order Cook (18 posts)
Oct. 18, 3:45PM Central(US)I don't like ads for candy or other kid-targeted things (like capri sun) where eating it causes weird transformations -- like those Airheads ads where their heads inflate into gross human-faced balloons, or the old Gushers ones where the kids turn into fruits. Capri sun had those ones where kids would drink it and melt into blobs of silver like Terminator 2. I guess it's all supposed to be cartoony fun but with the CGI it doesn't look cartoony, it looks horrifying.
This month there are these new ads for the Spooky Sour Bros they put out for Halloween, where the announcer does this Dracula voice and says things like "A taste so sour and sweet, you'll howl for more!" and the kid eats the Sour Bros and turns into a werewolf, or he says "It's Electrifying!" and he turns into a Frankenstein, etc. These ads bugs me in particular because of the style they did it in, it's still cheap CGI but the kind of look they use is too realistic to be called cartoony. It's still not a realistic style, like how the facial features aren't real-world proportions and all, but the textures and details are too real to fit in with that.
The one that really gets me is the "you'll jump right out of your skin!" one, with the too-real skeleton popping out through the kid's head. I know it's just a dumb joke about a figure of speech nobody even says anymore, but it would have been better if the camera followed the skeleton up instead of showing us the floppy skin sluffing (sp?) off and lieing in a pile on the ground, with the empty face on top. Also the skull with the eyeballs rolling around all googly is creepy, not funny.
The candy looks good though, I like regular Sour Bros and the Spooky ones have cool neon-ish green, purple, and orange colors.
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Peter Peter
Short-Order Cook (21 posts)
Oct. 19, 3:01PM Central(US)Jeez okay, I KNOW that the monster isn't called a Frankenstein, that's the doctor's name, but honestly that "little-known fact" you all are so proud of knowing is so much all over the internet that I thought it would go without saying. It's just easier to call monsters like that "Frankensteins" and you know what I mean so get off my back. You're just trying to scor points for being so smart, but if you're such a genius why can't you read and see that everyone already said it before you?
THAT'S my new pet peeve!
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Peter Peter
Short-Order Cook (28 posts)
Oct. 23, 8:37PM Central(US)Reply to Peter Peter 10-18 15:45
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i tried some spooky sour bros and take back what i said about the ad it's really realistic
does anyone know how to get ahold of a real person at young candy co, that makes sour bros i went to their site but they only had a paper mail address and i need to talk to them sooner than that
i'm so cold
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