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** They may have taken inspiration from Marmite's famous "[[Love It or Hate It]]" campaign.
* Some years ago, a Dutch brand of condiments had a special offer where their products would come with free napkin-rings with funny limericks written on them. In the commercial, a lady was shown reading the napkin-ring with an increasingly obvious lack of interest, then ''throwing it in the trash.''
* The official slogan of [https://web.archive.org/web/20121125235538/http://www.buckleys.com/index.html Buckley's cough medicine] is: "It tastes awful. And it works."
* [[Stan Freberg]] created a memorable series of ads for the Sunsweet prune company, emphasizing what people dislike most about the dried fruit: the wrinkles and the pits. They boasted that they'd gotten rid of the pits; the wrinkles were another matter.
* Vince Offer, previous commercial pitchman for the Sham Wow!, also made commercials for a product called the Schticky. At one point in the commercial, he said, "Use it during moments you'd like to forget!" as a mugshot is taken of him, referencing his earlier arrest for assaulting a prostitute.
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