१३ ऑक्टोबर, २०१८

Reasons to eat chocolate... from Brazil.



Via "These Brazilian Candy Ads Are Undeniably Dark Yet Surprisingly Entertaining/Mondelez brand Lacta creates confectionary chaos" (AdWeek)("wow, talk about a grim way to market chocolate").

२९ टिप्पण्या:

James म्हणाले...

That's some dark chocolate.

Sorry, had to be said.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

I feel triggered.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Chocapocalypse

Edmund म्हणाले...

Chocolate Kerbals!

rehajm म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Psota म्हणाले...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

robother म्हणाले...

Reminds me of Easter. I always start with the chocolate bunny's ears. But (as with the real thing) the marshmellow chick's head is bitten off first.

tcrosse म्हणाले...

The British have a national sweet tooth, and chocolate bars are pitched to adults. So you get commercials like this: Sometimes a chocolate bar is just a chocolate bar

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Is Brazil a "shithole"?

Unknown म्हणाले...

Much of Brazil seems to be a shithole based on the media coverage of the barrios in their cities.

Unknown म्हणाले...

The Portugese word is apparently favela.

buwaya म्हणाले...

Brazil produces a substantial crop of cacao.

However, I understand that the old tradition, typical of Iberia and France, of chocolate as a drink, at breakfast or merienda (teatime) is quite gone there, replaced by coffee. This replacement of chocolate by coffee through the last century is typical though. There are holdouts.

If you have not had true Spanish-style thick chocolate (absolutely no comparison with anything obtainable in the US), with churros, you are missing out. This was not something special at all, it was a working class custom as much as anything.

The family custom was exactly so, it was chocolate con churros for merienda. One of those things I miss, maybe more than I thought. I can't have that anymore though, what with the diabetes.

My great-grandfather attempted to promote the growing of cacao on his plantations, thinking it a possible second crop beneath the coconut trees, but with limited success. The tenantry did persist however, and they still grow cacao extensively post land reform. Their old tradition was to send the family a sack of country-chocolate every year, a sort of medieval symbolic rent, received by the patron of the day, my great grandfather, my uncles, and my mother in their time.

Birkel म्हणाले...

The American PC nonsense means we cannot have great commercials any more.
Calgon, take me away to a place with ancient Chinese secrets where it is always time to make the donuts.

rcocean म्हणाले...

Its a clever ad, but does it sell chocolate bars?

It'd be interesting to know the correlation between interesting and effective ads.

rcocean म्हणाले...

"Much of Brazil seems to be a shithole based on the media coverage of the barrios in their cities."

Brazil is a huge country and large hunks of it are great. The media ignores that, and focuses on the crime ridden slums and poorer northern part.

rehajm म्हणाले...

Weiden + Kennedy is well known for twisted themes in their ads. Some of the stuff on local Portland TV in the 90s...

buwaya म्हणाले...

Dark carved hardwood furniture, our monstrous old dinner table cut from a single slice across the trunk of a massive mahogany (god knows what that thing is worth today), Chinese blue-and white pattern teacups on woven rice-straw placemats.

Dark wood and dark chocolate. Its my equivalent of Prousts madeleines.

Wince म्हणाले...

The instantly conveyed humanity of the chocolate characters in that ad made me sad when they were killed one by one and in the final holocaust.

Does that say something about how life is valued in Brazil?

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Lindt 90% chocolate picks them off one by one space alienwise. No ruins of Pompeii deal.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

It's been a while since I've heard PV8ADI, who used to be a regular on 40m evenings for six-second conversations. Maybe he's been overrun. He seems to be in the mountains.

https://www.qrz.com/db/PV8ADI

ALP म्हणाले...

THANK you for a post showing me that in some parts of the world, people CAN have a sense of humor.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

That's racist!

Howard म्हणाले...

Chocolate is a good source of trace essential metals
https://www.omicsonline.org/chocolate-and-cocoa-products-as-a-source-of-essential-elements-in-nutrition-2155-9600.1000123.php?aid=4362

Darrell म्हणाले...

South Park had a Mr. Hanky episode this week. This commercial was too close for comfort.

Seeing Red म्हणाले...

Chocolate characters eating chocolate. Isn’t that cannibalism?

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

@darrell

I liked the PC babies.

Darrell म्हणाले...

I liked the PC babies

Always cryin'. They hit that nail on the head.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together म्हणाले...

Haha. That ad is great.

Chocolate is an addiction and addictions are death. Why sugar-coat it?

Protecting kids from the truth of what will tempt them is the worst form of coddling helicopter-parenting. It makes them softer and less capable of growing up strong and defending themselves. Why would someone want to raise their kids that way?

SoLastMillennium म्हणाले...

Ever hear of Little Baby's Ice Cream??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_fVzTJO-8