Oh, so after a long time, probably an year that I am coming up with another one in the series.
Yeah, what to do complexity never seems to leave my way. And the worrying bit is that of all human beings on Earth, I turn out to be the one who gets to notice all that. Also, such stuff gets stuck in my head for a number of moments and keeps irritating me back and again.
This time it is the advertisement for the popular powdered fruit beverage - Tang.
Yeah, the Tang. I am not sure about other countries, but in India definitely its newest advertisement is doing the rounds.
It shows a group of housewife seemingly group of mothers who are really happy updating each other about the addition of fruit in the now available Tang. And there are also their kids who are happy knowing that from now on their mommies will be serving them the same drink every day.
Now I know you must be wondering what is there in this advertisement that I find disturbing??
Hmm the reason is the same fruit addition is that I find disturbing. Yes, I keep on wondering whether the addition of fruit NOW in the Tang is a reason worth worrying or being happy?
I will try to explain with a short story. All through my growing up years, I was kept under the impression by the same advertisements and the consumerism induced society that the TANG is a fruit drink, and also an expensive and stylish one. The one that only foreign returned ones, or the ones who have relatives living abroad prefer to drink. So, in that sense, my family never consumed the reach to this fashionable one.
But now when I get to know that till back then it was just a fruit imitator in terms of being composed just of fruit flavors and not real fruit, I feel I was better of staying away from it and sticking to real fresh fruit juice.
Oh come on, now after 56 years of the particular product's inception, NOW that they have realized to put real fruits in a drink that is marketed as a fruit flavoured drink, then do you think it deserves a sip from me??
No, not at all..By the way this pulls me to another dilemma. Fruit is fine, but exactly how much?? a few grams they mean?? I suppose a big YES...LOL
Yeah, what to do complexity never seems to leave my way. And the worrying bit is that of all human beings on Earth, I turn out to be the one who gets to notice all that. Also, such stuff gets stuck in my head for a number of moments and keeps irritating me back and again.
This time it is the advertisement for the popular powdered fruit beverage - Tang.
Yeah, the Tang. I am not sure about other countries, but in India definitely its newest advertisement is doing the rounds.
It shows a group of housewife seemingly group of mothers who are really happy updating each other about the addition of fruit in the now available Tang. And there are also their kids who are happy knowing that from now on their mommies will be serving them the same drink every day.
Now I know you must be wondering what is there in this advertisement that I find disturbing??
Hmm the reason is the same fruit addition is that I find disturbing. Yes, I keep on wondering whether the addition of fruit NOW in the Tang is a reason worth worrying or being happy?
I will try to explain with a short story. All through my growing up years, I was kept under the impression by the same advertisements and the consumerism induced society that the TANG is a fruit drink, and also an expensive and stylish one. The one that only foreign returned ones, or the ones who have relatives living abroad prefer to drink. So, in that sense, my family never consumed the reach to this fashionable one.
But now when I get to know that till back then it was just a fruit imitator in terms of being composed just of fruit flavors and not real fruit, I feel I was better of staying away from it and sticking to real fresh fruit juice.
Oh come on, now after 56 years of the particular product's inception, NOW that they have realized to put real fruits in a drink that is marketed as a fruit flavoured drink, then do you think it deserves a sip from me??
No, not at all..By the way this pulls me to another dilemma. Fruit is fine, but exactly how much?? a few grams they mean?? I suppose a big YES...LOL
