What’s causing controversy is the portrayal of that unborn baby as one with an actual human personality. As NRO’s Jay Nordlinger noted earlier, the ad dares to portray the unborn child as human, and “not a meaningless blob of protoplasm.”
The pro-abortion activist group NARAL tweeted its disapproval, criticizing Doritos for “using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses.”
#NotBuyingIt - that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50— NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016
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Color me clueless. I'm saw none of the anti-abortion message, but I did wonder if it was a Doritos Monster from the look of horror on everyone's face at the end.
Did I miss it or was there no Clydesdale Budweiser ad?
It's just a life-less clump of cells until birth. That's why women go in for ultrasounds - to see the lifelessness in action.
Shame on you, Doritios, confusing Hillary supporters the land over.
Ironically, some of the ingredients in the Doritos seasoning are natural herbal abortifacients.
Even more ironic: some are aphrodisiacal.
The ad was the brainchild of a contests winner from Australia.
http://www.fritolay.com/blog/snack-chat/2016/01/04/fans-can-now-vote-for-final-doritos-brand-crash-the-super-bowl-ad-to-air-during-super-bowl-50.htm
The Hillary campaign should study this commercial carefully and attempt something similar.
Did I miss it or was there no Clydesdale Budweiser ad?
Peyton was the only horse they needed this year.
I liked the Super Bowl Babies and Helen Mirren best. It probably won't go over well here, but I thought Alec Baldwin's Amazon ad was pretty funny too. Worst were the toe fungus and Jeff Goldblum commercials. Those and Cam Newton's post game interview.
The doritos ad was just okay. What a depressing couple. Baby making a break while he can. Obvs, loony feminist reaction is loony; it barely needs saying. What was objectionable about the Jeff Goldblum commercial? Renters.com moving on up. Makes sense. Oh, right. Lil Wayne dressed as and speaking like Lil Wayne calls to mind slavery. Maybe it should. Maybe the Lil Wayne approach to life is too close to slavery for comfort. I thought the monkey-baby-dog thing was weird but strangely typically pointless. I can't remember the product advertised.
My fav Superbowl ad picks through the ages:
This one
& deese one
SJW's are humorless
I just can't stand Jeff Goldblum, that's all.
One the topic of expulsion, commenter Nichevo, whose comments at Althouse seemed worth reading from my POV, was publicly pinned with something resembling a red AA by the hostess today, with commenter shunning requested. Meanwhile, penis photos in avatars appear to fall into the category of playful and amusing. Perhaps Monica will soon be revealing an emjoi to match the what-cheerfulness that wings its way over to Levity from time to time.
Note to Nichevo: As you must have noticed by now, I delete all your comments when I see them. There is nothing you can do to change my position on this. I am directly telling you in case you somehow have not processed this reality. Go away. Don't attempt to comment here again. As for other commenters, please don't respond to this commenter, who has committed an unforgivable offense in my book. If he doesn't know what it is, I'd be very surprised, but if so, the only good faith response is to stop commenting here forever. Never come back. Further commenting is more evidence of your bad faith.
By the way, the main ingredient in Doritos that gives it explosive power is the nuclear option commonly known as MSG.
To reinforce these sources of naturally occurring glutamic acid, they go for the nuclear option: pure monosodium glutamate (MSG), the sodium salt form of glutamate... You may be thinking that since a little MSG goes a pretty long way to upping the umami factor, Frito-Lay probably stops the onslaught there, right? Wrong. The last two ingredients on the list (meaning that they appear in the smallest quantities) are arguably the most important: the free nucleotides disodium inosinate (IMP) and disodium guanylate (GMP).
Both IMP and GMP are what professional flavorists refer to as flavor potentiators—which just sounds awesome. To continue our arms race analogy, IMP and GMP are the heat-seeking ballistic missiles of the group. They fly in first, target taste receptors for umami and physically alter them, allowing the glutamate bombs better access (to destroy your mouth with flavor!). Put another way, with these flavor potentiators (YES!) in the mix, our perception of glutamates is amplified up to 30 times. Want a buzzword for it? Synergy.
Synergy? Not for those who have a digestive reaction to MSG, at which point the idea of a baby shooting out the other end is laughable and light-hearted compared to the lived experience of feeling as though one's entire innards are being expelled.
How fun is the acronym NARAL, when the word gnarl refers to a knotty protuberance or swelling on a tree (noun) or in the verb form, to twist into a knotted or distorted form.
@MamaM:
What an outstanding comment all around. Brava!
Funny, and I had never thought about that.
..the acronym NARAL,... the word gnarl ... in the verb form, to twist into a knotted or distorted form.
Tasteless.
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