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Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

jbminkoff — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:49:24 EST

As the president of First Flavor, the company bringing this Peel 'n Taste product to market, there is a major correction to the WSJ article: This is not about Lickable Ads. Welch's used the term 'lick' in their ad and no one seems to have bothered to read the fine print.

Our product, which can be attached to a print ad and peeled off, is a sealed tamper evident foil pouch containing a piece of edible film. (Similar to popular breath strips.) One peels opens the pouch and places the piece of edible film on your tongue. The edible film dissolves quickly leaving you with a burst of flavor. No licking involved!

The point that was really missed was that finally consumers now have a way of trying the taste of a product before they buy it. We call it taking a product for a 'Taste Drive'!

jbminkoff

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

raincoaster — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:12:55 EST

A couple of weeks ago I proposed a new iPhone that's activated by licking; the receiving end is in Steve Jobs's pants, of course.

raincoaster

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

VoxPopuli — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:01:45 EST

Oh, wait ... we weren't supposed to be licking the pages before? Well that's just great.

VoxPopuli

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

MedusaInterrupted — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:32 EST

David Beckham's ad would taste like sweaty balls and tractor exhaust.

MedusaInterrupted

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

winniemc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:28:56 EST

@TedSez: Nice, Ralph.

winniemc

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

TheHonJudgeSmails — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:45:56 EST

@KarenUhOh : And Panda's Ass Fancy

TheHonJudgeSmails

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

KarenUhOh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:30:48 EST

Highly recommended for subscribers to Guns & Ammo.

KarenUhOh

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

olivejuice — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:25:40 EST

a snozzberry? who's ever heard of a snozzberry?!?!

olivejuice

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

Michael Jahn — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:09:24 EST

Tastes like teen spirit.

Michael Jahn

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

TheHonJudgeSmails — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:05:50 EST

@collegecallgirl: And overcautious dullards with no sense of adventure.

TheHonJudgeSmails

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

GeorgeBabbitt — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:05:30 EST

@collegecallgirl: That sounds more like a free sample. JA will steal that idea from you by close of business today.

GeorgeBabbitt

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

collegecallgirl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:02:57 EST

@misssgolightly: The Trojan ad would smell like latex and boredom.

collegecallgirl

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

misssgolightly — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:58:22 EST

@collegecallgirl: I'd want to be a flavor specialist for the lickable ads. "Oh, Katya, young Russian bombshell, ready to please? Make her smell like cheap vodka and cigarettes!" "Victoria's secret, page 7? Coke and sweat!"

misssgolightly

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

collegecallgirl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:55:09 EST

@misssgolightly: If you think about it, everything's already lickable.

collegecallgirl

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

homobot v3.0 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:53:56 EST

I've often thought that if I could lick my own magazine, I'd probably never leave the house.

homobot v3.0

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

misssgolightly — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:53:07 EST

@collegecallgirl: Wait till they have lickable Victoria's Secret ads. Or a lickable David Beckham underwear ad. Or lickable Trojan ads. Or if they make those escort ads in the back of NY magazine lickable. The possibilities are endless.

misssgolightly

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

CaptainFantastic — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:48:21 EST

@flyoverstate: That's why I only buy magazines that are wrapped in plastic, usually black.

CaptainFantastic

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

flyoverstate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:45:12 EST

@TedSez: yeah, but does it smell like sulfur?

flyoverstate

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

flyoverstate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:44:24 EST

You know all those people who flip through a magazine then put it back on the rack? I'm not putting my tongue where all of those unwashed hands have been.

flyoverstate

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

collegecallgirl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:43:20 EST

I have a lickable ad on my vagina.

collegecallgirl

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

zequ — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:42:48 EST

This would be A LOT funnier if they just SAID the ads were lickable, but they weren't.

zequ

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

modelbehavior — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:39:29 EST

Marketers have officially gone bat-shit insane.

modelbehavior

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

TedSez — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:39:03 EST

Tastes like burning!

TedSez

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

SchmatSchmaymon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:36:36 EST

I totally thought it was going to be a picture of Denton on the roof in his swimmers.

SchmatSchmaymon

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

TheHonJudgeSmails — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:36:05 EST

Can't wait until this feature is added into "Barely Legal" and "Jugs".

TheHonJudgeSmails

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

Sarcastro — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:35:48 EST

You all better hope I don't decide to sell my taint.

Sarcastro

Nasty Ads Have People Licking All Your Magazines

HowardRoarkLaughed — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:32:23 EST

And once again, life imitates Willy Wonka's factory.

Though I have always wanted to taste a snozzberry.

HowardRoarkLaughed