It's great seeing clichés in real life. The latest example I saw was when I was shopping in Morrison's recently. A harassed looking mum was trying to get her shopping done while her two neddish looking kids trailed behind her. One of the kids was saying "Can we get some Sunny D Mum?" while the other was repeating the phrase Sunny D over and over again. Maybe he was a fan of Hot Chip.
It had me in stitches, it was the Sunny D advert come to life! I'm not sure how anyone can drink the stuff, there can't actually be any orange juice in it. Seems like it is just full of chemicals and no one would voluntarily drink it unless an advert said it was cool. Seems to have worked.
It also reminded me of a book by Rupert Thomson called Soft. A new orange soft drink is launched called Kwench! and the company try to persuade people to buy it through subliminal advertising during sleep trials. Unsurprisingly things go awry and people start craving it even though they hate it and become obsessed with the colour orange. Could this be why Sunny D is so popular?
It's just a shame that the 2 kids in question weren't a David Dickinson shade of orange. Would have made it even funnier.
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