Thursday, April 7, 2011

"Hey, want some fruit?"

Yesterday afternoon I stopped at Local Grocery to pick up some tomatoes, and noticed this sign in the produce section.

I think the marketing people need a better slogan.


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14 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 7, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    Or just put a 45 y.o. overweight male instead of the little girl...there should be no confusion or witty blog posts then.

    Oh wait...

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  2. The MotherApril 7, 2011 at 8:22 AM

    Oooh--I see the mothers of the world (and the political conservatives) about to aim for the carotid.

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  3. GatlingApril 7, 2011 at 8:26 AM

    The fruit themselves are strangely... elongated. Can't believe the marketroids didn't catch it.

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  4. JessApril 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    I don't think there's any picture that would work. It's definitely the slogan.

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  5. AnonymousApril 7, 2011 at 10:15 AM

    I wish we were able to post pictures in the comments. This will have to do.

    http://www.transformer-ivan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pedobear.png

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  6. Kat's KatsApril 7, 2011 at 10:40 AM

    Obviously they are just wanting to encourage young men to eat more fruit. ::staring innocently at ceiling and humming tunelessly::

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  7. PackerApril 7, 2011 at 12:09 PM

    Slap yourself hard.

    Not hard enough.

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  8. Ben SApril 7, 2011 at 4:37 PM

    Hey, it got your attention.

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  9. OMDGApril 7, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    I've always thought kiwis resembles testicles myself.

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  10. AnonymousApril 7, 2011 at 6:00 PM

    That's kiwiFRUIT, thank you. The kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand, and it is endangered. The kiwifruit actually originated in China, but New Zealanders were the first to market it commercially.

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  11. MooseApril 7, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    There's a chain of stores out here (that seem to be related to BloodBath & Beyond) called "Buy Buy Baby."

    According to the ads they allegedly sell stuff for infants and small children, but when you say the name of the store out loud, it sounds more like a place you go to not have said offspring in the first place...

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  12. Mari-AnnApril 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM

    Geez, Old MD Girl needs to work on a stand up comedy routine. She's hella funny.

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  13. AnonymousApril 8, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    It might just be "Engrish". Foreign marketers come out with some hilariously inappropriate things when they don't understand English well enough to do the translation. Check out engrish.com sometime..

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  14. merinzApril 9, 2011 at 1:34 AM

    Agree with anon - its a kiwiFRUIT!

    I should post you a pick of a misshapen kiwifruit we picked in our orchard the other day - especially for old MD girl.

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So wadda you think?