Sometimes it’s hard to make the case that most chow advertisements are a kind of food porn, but then the advertising gods deliver us something like this to make our point a little easier.
Food porn
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Wow.
Don’t miss “The Making of Bikini – Audrina Patridge Carl’s Jr. ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySK8OXLwMTM&feature=channel
The producers make some statements about the other women involved in the production of the commercial — not just “the beautiful women in front of the camera”. They also mention that “it’s always about the food”. Trying to pre-empt sexist arguments with this?
Thanks for the tip. Always about the food, indeed! Goes to show how out of it I am. I didn’t know that Audrina Patridge was shilling burgers, nor did I know what The Hills was until my students started writing papers about it. What an incestuous loop!