Okay I’ve got to turn this into a cocaine ad

Obesity epidemic explained. Weve collectively stopped watusiing.

POV: your child is a hummingbird or Beavis

watusi

I wanna watusi with a gang

Vintage fear mongering to mothers to get their children addicted to sugar. Classic marketing.

I don't consume artificial sweeteners because they make me sick.

You don't consume artificial sweeteners because they don't give you Watusi energy.

We are not the same.

Paid for by the American Dental Association?

I can't believe you have to advertise sugar

Well, in fairness, we do need carbs for energy. It's just that we also need protein and fat for longer-term energy and carbs for shorter-term energy. And we need to match input and output calories. And it's complicated, but for the most part you don't need to worry TOO much about it - just make sure you walk and get exercise, which makes up for a whole host of ills.

All that advertising in mid century western culture was meant to divorce us from the natural world. Careful engineering went into building post wwii American society

I absolutely hate how this reads. How is “for energy” its own sentence on its own line, reads so poorly

I had to see the date of the add before I believed that this wasn’t bjork

Long time ago a breakfast bar or something was advertised as "full of food energy". After some consumer action the company had to male a second commercial saying "by food energy we meant calories!" as if they assumed viewers would translate that in their heads like duh. What they didn't say was that calories in their case meant sugar.

Artificial sweeteners kind of taste like burning to me. I don't know what that means, but I take it as: "do not."

Mary just got back from the acid tests.

Whoa, 18cals/teaspoon? Now, I feel shrink-flation; it was 15cals/teaspoon when I last checked.

Anyone wants to comment on the apparently short legs? That's weird. But at least it's sugar and not radioactive materials that cure everything.