Food Snob wrote:
> sf wrote:
> > On 12 Apr 2006 11:40:22 -0700, aem wrote:
> >
> > > The South Africa Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that eating
> > > beans leads to intestinal gas, the NY Times reported today. In
> > > official phraseology, they said it was "objectively determinable
> > > factual reality" that people who eat beans pass gas.
> > >
> > > Bean producers had complained about an ad that made fun of them, but
> > > the Authority said the ad was okay because it was based on "objectively
> > > determinable....."
> > >
> > > Neither the story nor, presumably, the Advertising Standards Authority
> > > made any mention of Beano. -aem
> >
> > Well, Beano is missing a good advertising campaign if they don't jump
> > on that bandwagon.
> > --
> >
> I thought of a good ad campaign. It features people in situations
> where a smelly fart would really ******** things up. Like a first
> date, or being introduced to the president of the company, or many
> other occasions. You do the set up, then comes the fart noise, then
> the looks of grossed outedness on the faces, then the jingle, "Aw-oh,
> he shoulda used Beano."
> Kind of like those Southwest commercials, "Want to get away?"
>
> Thing is, most stations would refuse to run a commercial with a fart
> noise.
>
> --Bryan

The ad to which the bean producers in South Africa objected showed a
rugby team refusing to enter a locker room where one of the players was
eating beans. -aem