Have you seen the Dallas Cowboys Commercial?
Submitted by Mets82 on Mon, 12/31/2007 - 05:05.
Just wanted to know if anyone saw the Dallas Cowboys commercial in which the coordinator is telling the coach the play and he yawns. The coach thinks that's the play so he says the samething including the yawn to the quarterback and then the quarterback then tells the team the samething. It ends with Jerry Jones taking the headset from the coordinator. The commercial is for Diet Pepsi. I think it's the funniest ad out there right now.
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Yes, in the trend of "enhanced" sodas, it's for Diet Pepsi Max with ginseng and "more caffeine." Thus, the "yawn" concept.
*yawn*
It was Badlanded back in July. Argentina Telecom vs. Diet Pepsi Max.
Hey Mets82, what is your opinion on this topic?
Now see to me, asking Mets82 what his opinion is of the brownie points topic is a "throwaway" comment.
I'm honestly curious as to what his input is on the topic considering his history. And I brought more information to this post by pointing out that the yawn concept has been done and even discussed here well over six months ago.
Well I still think having a diet cola with more caffiein in is a conflict of interest. Usualy people who drink diet cola want to get away from caffein, but yes, this is an "energy" drink so Pepsi isn't focusing on them.
Problably they are more focused on people set to "loose" weight through exercise
"yawn"
Someone else is reading this...I feel so empowered
"Usually people who drink diet cola want to get away from caffeine"
On what do you base this assumption? The MAX target is a young male who drinks light products not because caffiene/calories are "bad" but because they consume a lot of softdrinks, and they like the taste of diet stuff. (note that "diet" drinks in europe are "light" due to diet sounding to clinical). Picking up a "diet" something or other isn't cool because fretting about weight seems "unmanly" and that's not what this target is doing as a priority - hence the new names like "max" and "zero" (also to denote different sugar replacements). Adding ginseng to an already popular product, as it is now found in other "energy drinks" is merely a way of riding the coat tails of those drinks popularity while offering a flavour that is familiar. Energy drinks is seen as a new market (well, fairly newish) and Pepsi just wants a piece of it.
Me personally, I'm all for twice the caffeine. The only soda you ever find in my house is... (naturally..) Jolt! 41 grams of sugar and Caffine Content = 75 per serving. Oh yeaaah!
I don't normally have soda in my house (except for the Schweppe's Ginger Ale for my mother-in-law). I don't often drink it, because I've found that those with High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in it cause me to have sugar crashes about 45 minutes later. I generally drink iced tea (or hot tea), and I avoid the ones that have HFCS in them. For sodas at work, I sometimes drink Cherry or Vanilla Coke Zero - they don't use HFCS. [Also, HFCS seems to be a factor in me gaining weight, as I seem to want more and more fattening items if I've had stuff with HFCS in it].
However, I love caffeine. I drink 1-3 large cups of hot tea (sweetened with Sugar In The Raw) in the morning, then I have 1-2 large (16-20 oz) bottles of iced tea, then at dinner, I have a large cup (18 oz) of iced tea.
If I could get Jolt at work, I'd drink it. (I used to when various clients had it available. It doesn't show up in the majority of the stores I frequent). Mind you, I'm taking a decongestant (Claritin-D 24 Hour - with 240 mg of time-released Pseudoephedrine - which is restricted here, because it can be used to create Methamphetamine), and I still have problems staying awake! (I have 110/70 BP even with a weight of 235+ lbs [~107kg], and height of 5'10" [~180 cm]).
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
HFCS make everyone gain weight. Just the fact that having a sweet drink with dinner (soda or similar) stimulates the brain to eat more should tell you how that works when you stuff your spagetti sauce with HFCS - and practically all pre-made sauces have corn syrup in them. Water with dinner will help anyone to eat sensible, that is to stop when they are full.
Go to the Kosher isle for your soda-pop. If it's kosher for passover, it doesn't have HFCS. Try it, check the labels. (I used to stock up during passover and make it last a year... Wow, I was doing that passover shopping in the mid nineties, and here I found it's still going on.)
Is Jolt! made with sugar or HFCS?
(Do you get HFCS-free sodas in Sweden nowadays?)
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
I have no idea actually, never read the label - I'm that keen whenever I find the stuff and I just checked the kitchen, all my cans have been recycled already. Will have to get more and get back to you. Most sodas here are HFCS free, but it's gradually changing. Pasta sauce has bitten the dust practically all brands got the corn syrup now.
From a Jolt can: carbonated water, sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid and natural flavors
I've never tried Jolt Cola. I'm not sure if I have seen it in the stores. Just seeing the image Dabitch posted of the can makes makes me think of this strange Jolt commercial.
"Happiness is overrated."
That is an odd Jolt commercial. Feels off brand.
Last time I drove across the US, from LA to NY in 2000, I was crossing the Texas Panhandle in the middle of the night, falling asleep at the wheel, so I stopped to get some coffee. But they had a huge Jolt display, so I bought three instead, and I was up for the next 24 hours as if I had taken meth.
See? It's teh stuff!
(I know, I have to hide my cans from her, she's nuts about Jolt.)
Just brought home a sixpack (and already drank three, dangit) and there's no corn syrup in Jolt over here. Bless 'em. It says INGREDIENTS: SUGAR - moms favorite!
Supposedly, in the USA, they've replaced the sugar with HFCS. (There are also about 5 more flavors here - Sweden and Germany have just cola - at least as far as my current sources know).
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
Here in Copenhagen, at the American store, you can get four or five flavors of Jolt, when they have it which isn't very often. And they're only open Wednesday thru Friday.
High-fructose corn syrup: Why is it so bad for me?
"Happiness is overrated."
It's not bad for you unless you have too much of it. I try not to consumer a lot of sugar in general.
Yeah, that's the key. And that's also why I hate corn syrup which seems to sneak into everything. Who here cooks pasta sauce at home with sugar in it? Anyone? No, right? I don't get it, why the hell would I want sugar in my bolognese? That ticks me off to no end.
Oh, and aim for the "sugar free" variety of anything and it'll contain some artificial sweetener instead. Arrrgh!
Åsk:
Look for "Unsweetened" - it's the only way you can control the sugar and/or non-sugar sweetener. I know, these are rare.
By the way, according to a book my wife read recently ("The Omnivore's Dilemma" - I think. [I need to check with her]), corn has won, and taken over humans, and made us its tools.
There are more acres of corn in the Mid-West USA than anything else. We pushed all of the other crops into small niches, or out of existence in this country. We have corn-fed (or more properly over-fed) beef, which we need to treat with all sorts of meds to fix the problems their systems have with eating all that corn. They're feeding the carnivores corn! And we eat the corn-fed cows, and chickens, and fish, along with our HFCS laden drinks and other extras, and maybe we have corn with that, or maybe later we have some corn chips or nachos.
Agggghhh!
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
I miss American corn over here. Good old Silver Queen. You can't beat it.
> corn has won
That reminds me, I wanna see "I am legend" tonight. (He's got corn fields in Manhattan!)
About 12-15 years ago, someone set up a corn field and a wheat field in Lower Manhattan for a few years. [I think they had maybe 4-5 acres each].
It was for scientific studies about small animals and insects in Manhattan, and they wanted to give them a place to possibly expand (that was part of what they were measuring). It was wild seeing the fields, with the skyscrapers behind them (in this case, looking to the North), for REAL!
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
4 to 5 acres each? Are you sure? The WTC site is only 16 Acres.
Tod, I'm not sure. It may have been 4 acres total. It was on loan for 3-4 years, by some large corporation to the scientist (female, IIRC).
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
I wish I had known about it. I was living in NY then and I would have loved to have seen it.
BIG CORRECTIONS:
It was just a Wheat field.
It was only 2 acres.
It was in 1982.
"[After months of preparations, in May l982, a 2-acre wheat field was planted on a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty.]"
Done by Agnes Denes -" an American artist/scholar of international renown."
"Denes was one of the first artists to be involved with the relationship of science to art, and was also a pioneer of ecological art. One of the first artists to initiate the environmental art movement, her work involves ecological, cultural and social issues, and are often monumental in scale. Perhaps best known for Wheatfield - A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre wheat field she planted and harvested downtown Manhattan, a work that addresses human values and misplaced priorities. In 1996 she completed Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule in Finland, a massive earthwork and reclamation project that reaches four hundred years into the future to benefit future generations with a meaningful legacy. In l998 she planted a forest of 6,000 trees in Melbourne, Australia and is presently creating a 25-year Masterplan for a 85-km area in the center of the Netherlands."
[from http://www.asci.org/artikel922.html] (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.)
(Same quote can be found at: http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa292.htm. On that page you can see a picture entitled Wheatfield - A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982, with the WTC in the background.
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
Yes, I thought so. It's the land that's now Battery Park City. :-)
It was Battery Park before she touched it.
Allan...
"Remember, no matter where you go... There you are." (Buckaroo Banzai).
"Hey, barkeep, 2 Rock Over Hip-Hops and 1 Bach Over Vivaldi with ice."
Maybe technically, but based on the photo, it's now BPC, filled with apartment buildings, shops, and the lower end of Hudson River Park.
C'mon Kaz, that was my conversation with Allan. What do you know about NY anyway? I'm a native, you're a freaking Aussie! :-)
I couldn't find any reference to high-fructose corn syrup in Canadian food on product labels, or from other sources. I guess we still use sugar here.
"Happiness is overrated."
Canada doesn't have all that corn to get rid of, nor legislation artificially inflating the price for cane sugar which the US does. It boils down to the fact that you don't mind importing goods from countries in south america. To top it off you have a really long sugar beet history.
Thanks for the information. :)
"Happiness is overrated."