Campbell Soup Goes For The Demographic That Allied Biscuit Abandoned
But what if you combined crackers AND soup?
What flubby’s Sunday funny missed in its NFL commercial breakdown was the preponderance of Chunky Soup ads readying to bombard our sets during the bullshit TV timeouts between a kick return and the start of an offensive series. Sure, it’s soup that eats like a meal, but only if that meal is served in a prison mess hall.
Unlike Kirk Van Houten’s cracker company, Campbell Soup has seen fit to abandon the family market and target middle-aged single guys. So they ditched Momma McNabb and (I guess) Casey Hampton’s mom in favor of LaDainian Tomlinson’s helmet cam. Because nothing makes me hungry for soup like intercutting shots up a running back’s nose with flashes of Norv Turner.
You Been Blinded provides footage of LDT’s Blair Witch-esque making-of video.
LaKneeInjury, ever the student of history, is mindful but unconcerned with the Chunky Soup Curse. You as fantasy owners should not be so foolhardy.
/attempting to coax other owners to let him fall to pick no. 6.
Tags: i buy ramen because it doesn't advertise, not really it's only cause i'm poor, xmas ape
August 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I don’t know if single people eat crackers, and frankly, I don’t want to know.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
This is the sort of disappointing news that could very well get McNabb’s mom back on the Rock.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
It’s back to Eastern Motors for Jason Campbell
August 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I don’t recall saying “good luck”.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
so….
a) does this mean the ‘curse’ has been lifted off of McNabb and he will play the whole season?
b) for poor folk food, ramen is incredibly bad for you AND still leaves you hungry. Hmmm, on second thought, all poor food does that.
c) soup never eats like a meal. I don’t care if it is concrete cinder block and landfill soup, you are going to be jonesing for a cheeseburger like, 10 minutes later.
d) i wonder how many takes they needed to do before they realized Norv’s filmed visage was incinerating the stock and finally they just added him via computer effects, albeit causing the animation guys to go blind/become deranged in the process.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I used to buy PBR because they didn’t advertise and because a 30-pack was as cheap as Busch Light. Now every hipster douchebag drinks it and it makes me sad.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
pretty sure the hipsters have moved on to something else by now. they are a fickle lot, as soon as many of them think one thing is cool, they abandon it with cynical detachment. It’s their fucking modus operandi.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
soupsoupsoupsoupsoupsoupsoupsoupsoup
August 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
LDT went for $80 out of a $200 salary cap in our auction so if he gets injured there’s going to be a really pissed off person in our league.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
If they’re targeting single middle-aged guys, they’re looking right at Kirk van Houten. He’s got a bed shaped like a race car!
August 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Maybe I’m crazy, but that close up of LaDanian doesn’t make me want soup, it makes me want to go catch frogs and then pick them up and stare at their faces from the same angle. Like really badly.
/stopped taking the pills I should years ago
August 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
What’s Norv Turner doing on the set? Did he come out just so he could feel relevant?
Norv Turner: (high-pitched voice) Hey, is that Norv Turner?
(regular voice, sheepish grin) Aw, jeez.