Why advertising is not as awesome as they hope, part 732

[mrissa]

Auto insurance commercial: And they'll give you an English muffin, toasted with a little butter.

What I did not say: That is offbeat and pleasantly ridiculous! I should look into changing our car insurance to this company.

What I did say: Hey, I haven't had an English muffin in ages! They put my benedict at Lucile's on those amazing eggplant slices, which was good but not the same thing. I should put English muffins on the grocery list.

(With blackberry peach jam just now. Was good.)

Comments

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

When I was young, I shied from English muffins like a vampire from sunlight. The mere existence of Egg McMuffins confused and revolted me. I was convinced English muffins were formed of some appalling cacophony of bizarre flavors and textures. Then I finally got forced by pressure or hunger into eating one and was like, "Oh, wait, this is just a baked good like any other baked good."

I was a weird little kid.

Anyway, I am very glad to hear of your muffin enjoyment, though my brain keeps reading your post wrong and thinking you had eggplant slices with blackberry peach jam.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh, no! The eggplant slices were with a Cajun tomato sauce and poached eggs and hollandaise. So good.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I didn't like them when I was a kid, either. They were Not What I Liked. There's a funniness to them, but now I like said funniness.