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And a million people look at that ad, scratch their heads, and say "IN WHAT SENSE???" [Read More]
Tracked on Mar 9, 2007 5:52:59 AM
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Over at AdFreak the comments have been coming in hot and heavy over this ad for a Boise bagel shop that ran in a local alt-weekly: But scroll down through all the cream cheese and schmear jokes and you'll find... [Read More]
Tracked on Mar 9, 2007 6:58:19 AM
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Pumpernickel with lox please.
Posted by: sealsdermatologist | Mar 8, 2007 1:50:19 PM
F*ck their bagels, is the classic teenage boy response.
Posted by: BadAdsAreEverywhereEvenIdaho | Mar 8, 2007 2:08:57 PM
Ad was supposed to read: "Proud supporter of the Vagina Monologues" Context-it's all in the context.
Posted by: Iworkthere... | Mar 8, 2007 3:20:17 PM
Oh I just love bagels, but that vagina stuff has to go!
Posted by: Parksfat! | Mar 8, 2007 3:43:46 PM
I'm gonna pass on the onion and cream cheese, thanks.
Posted by: xadrian | Mar 8, 2007 3:48:06 PM
That's the best ad I've seen I week. Makes me want a bagel....
Posted by: Jim | Mar 8, 2007 4:03:28 PM
mmmm, that actually makes me hungry!
Posted by: Seth | Mar 8, 2007 4:07:21 PM
Seth: go DIAF
Posted by: sethisnotmydad | Mar 8, 2007 4:22:13 PM
you've been greenlit on www.fark.com
Posted by: alg | Mar 8, 2007 4:26:58 PM
I might need a nap after I eat that bagel.
Posted by: ALjew | Mar 8, 2007 4:28:42 PM
I'll take mine with a shmear
Posted by: Espot | Mar 8, 2007 4:34:10 PM
Butter's in the fridge!
Posted by: Jon | Mar 8, 2007 4:38:53 PM
ALjew - would that be a pap schmear?
Posted by: DJM | Mar 8, 2007 4:52:01 PM
I'd love to see their ad for the hard roll.
Posted by: MurrayLender | Mar 8, 2007 4:59:28 PM
Do they have a bald bagel?
Posted by: Quads | Mar 8, 2007 5:00:02 PM
i'll take it plain...no wait, better make that toasted with cinnemon and raisins, well buttered
Posted by: | Mar 8, 2007 5:04:08 PM
how do they put the holes in bagels anyway?
Posted by: smiley | Mar 8, 2007 5:07:24 PM
I know how they put the holes in the bagels!
Posted by: | Mar 8, 2007 5:17:25 PM
River City Bagel & Bakery: Your best choice for an all-natural fleshlight alternative.
Posted by: Jesufication | Mar 8, 2007 5:18:48 PM
Ok this is one too many stories related to finding sesame seeds where you shouldn't be finding sesame seeds.
Posted by: GETOFFMYLAND | Mar 8, 2007 6:23:51 PM
Wait wait wait ... are they really encouraging people to have sexual intercourse with their bagels? Does that even make a lick of sense? Would that even feel good?
Posted by: Cyde Weys | Mar 8, 2007 6:26:19 PM
Remind me not to order the cream cheese if I have to eat there.
Posted by: Matrinka | Mar 8, 2007 6:37:01 PM
Wouldn't that be better for a store selling tacos?
Posted by: DrBear | Mar 8, 2007 6:46:34 PM
Sounds like a place for the family, the Playboy family.
Posted by: Bobby | Mar 8, 2007 7:01:17 PM
can't recall seeing many vaginas with sesame seeds. but i've never examined the genitalia of a woman from boise.
Posted by: HighJive | Mar 8, 2007 7:36:52 PM
I'll take two dozen! And I can walk to H&H bagel - but who cares!
Posted by: blogenfreude | Mar 8, 2007 7:46:45 PM
[insert obligatory vagina joke here]
Posted by: damn, this back fired. | Mar 8, 2007 8:28:19 PM
"Our bagels are like vaginas" unless you leave them outside for a few days, then they get covered with mold and flies and stuff. Then they aren't like vaginas anymore. Timing is crucial.
Posted by: TomC | Mar 8, 2007 8:33:50 PM
I hope they wear protection when they make these
Posted by: Lisa | Mar 8, 2007 9:19:47 PM
I thought they tasted kind of yeasty.
Posted by: churchgoer | Mar 8, 2007 9:51:22 PM
Ya got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "B"
And that stands for bagels that are like vaginas
Posted by: HighJive | Mar 8, 2007 9:55:33 PM
Tell you what - that's a helluva lot better than the "Buy 12 get one free with our asshat-loyalty club card" crap that I'm usually entitled to at Einstein, or worse, Starbucks.
Bagels and vaginas. Nothing wrong with starting your day with one - and even better with both - and best when they're both warm!
Posted by: CrazyTony | Mar 8, 2007 10:16:11 PM
Does a dozen come in a douche bag?
Posted by: thisshitisgenius | Mar 8, 2007 10:49:54 PM
I don't see what's wrong with this. Vaginas are awesome.
Posted by: Juraj Gagne | Mar 8, 2007 11:03:59 PM
There's no reportedly about it -- it did run in the Boise Weekly. Even though it was supposed to be in support of the Vagina Monologues, what you see here is what was printed in the paper.
Posted by: Idaho Ad Agencies | Mar 9, 2007 12:06:55 AM
never had whipped cream on a bagel until now.
Posted by: ryanmrich | Mar 9, 2007 12:29:28 AM
Don't get it with tuna.
Posted by: | Mar 9, 2007 2:05:31 AM
Tom C, you obviously never read American Psycho; the metaphor still works.
But I'm wondering if the creative director might perhaps be having some marital issues? "Crisp on the outside, coated with cream cheese on the inside" isn't exactly mouth-watering in this context.
Posted by: raincoaster | Mar 9, 2007 3:35:07 AM
Target Market? Nymphos, porn stars, gynecologists, american pie fans... I wonder where the "G spot" is on a bagel?
Posted by: sliptnfell | Mar 9, 2007 9:10:54 AM
What comparison do they have for their cream filled eclairs?
Posted by: Mike | Mar 9, 2007 10:02:58 AM
whats the fun in just licking a bagel?
Posted by: greg | Mar 9, 2007 10:07:51 AM
Have one of these with a glass of Tang mixed with Prune Juice... Then you can enjoy real PruneTang with your Vagina like donut !!
Posted by: ElderGeezer | Mar 9, 2007 11:10:58 AM
I would have gone with the crueller joke. Long Johns are just a quick pastry doughs and make up in a minute, while a yeast based crueller recipe takes an overnight rising period, careful kneading, stripping and a twist.
But then who has time to stop and think about a deeper message in advertising.
Posted by: | Mar 9, 2007 11:13:14 AM
*is laughing too hard to make a cehoerent sentence*
Posted by: randomfarker | Mar 9, 2007 1:20:43 PM
i'm horny
Posted by: curtis | Mar 9, 2007 5:37:31 PM
Horny?
Compute:
Hörnchen, another bakery specialty, filled with cream and then labeled Wiener Spiralen. Check google or yahoo images for the tastey treat. I feel so sorry for people who think the bakery at the local supermarket is delici-o-sious.
Of course, this name, Wiener Spiral, is also given to some kind of higher mathematical probability concept. Just as in the advertising community there may have been a memetic device at work, a collaboration of efforts, or perhaps outright non recognition of originators concerning the process.
of course a spiralen is just another HeLiks
But all this stuff is above the head of a mere gramma putting lovin' in the oven and failed at graphic design.
should i be copywriting this stuff and signing my name to these posts? Or would that be too technosexual?
Posted by: | Mar 9, 2007 6:08:08 PM
technically the WS are just rosettes that you can top a filled horn with, but I'm sure you guys get the picture.
and excuse the grammar: failed should be failing
Posted by: | Mar 9, 2007 6:58:52 PM
Beats the hell out of "Brownie's Donut Hole" in Chandler, OK.
Posted by: | Mar 9, 2007 10:07:28 PM
Would a bagel get jealous if you touch another bagel?
Posted by: Bagel Lova | Mar 10, 2007 1:33:17 AM
I get a bagel there about once a week and never really made the connection. I thought I was pretty in tune sexually, but it just goes to show you, there is always something to learn about sex! I think I will be going there more than once now, but will be staying away from their bagel dog!
Posted by: River City Patron | Mar 10, 2007 7:33:26 AM
There was a famous TV cook in the UK in 1950's called Fanny Craddock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Cradock), who together with her Husband Johnny were once making donuts. As they finished Johnnie uttered the immortal line, "And I hope all your donuts look like Fanny's".
(P.S. In the UK Fanny is word for 'front bottom', not a rear end)
Posted by: Chris H | Mar 11, 2007 8:17:29 AM
I wonder if all your critics will be asking the "monologues" author to change the name to " The coochie-coo monologues"?
For a business owner with a vagina, you got big balls, sis!
Posted by: BagelShopsSisterInCali | Mar 12, 2007 2:32:56 AM
Brownies?
Do they use Brownien Motion to calulate the random motion of advertising dispersement from and to young male minds (yes, see Wikipedia for the intuitive metaphor using a hot air balloon/head) or just the dissemination of seeds.
Posted by: | Mar 12, 2007 9:48:22 AM
I like mine with everything on it. Nothing like that salty taste.
Posted by: Ed | Mar 12, 2007 11:04:03 AM
Ed,
then might I suggest instead of the Krakower Jewish Bagel the Catholic soft prezel in the form of a Kümmel Stange (Fennel Seed Schtick). It has the added feature of being boiled in lye, plus the position of panis quadragesimalis untwisted and straight forward. Newton and Kopernicus. and who knows: Keppler? might get their knickers and snickers in a knot.
Posted by: | Mar 12, 2007 11:53:49 AM
LoL. This is just wrong.
Posted by: | Mar 12, 2007 1:38:24 PM
I heard about a blonde who got cup of coffee at 7/11. There was a contest where you won a prize when you pulled the tab off the bottom of your coffee cup. She pulled her tab...and went CRAZY...screaming "I won a motorhome, I am so exicted!" The manager thought, I dont remember giving away a motorhome..."let me see your tab..."
It read- win a bagle-
Posted by: Heather | Mar 12, 2007 1:57:28 PM
Tim
Just caught this as I was in New York speaking at the PSFK conference the day you posted it. As you know, I live in Boise now... And I have to say one thing about River City Bagels... They suck. They don't taste like bagels, and they certainly don't taste like c**t's. I will find out who is responsible for theis and go round and kick their arse. You have my word on it.
Cheers/George
Posted by: George Parker | Mar 12, 2007 3:36:32 PM
As a resident of Boise, I fully endorse this product and/or service!
Posted by: | Mar 12, 2007 6:46:35 PM
Hey George,
i looked up that place on the internet. They do have a bakery with pastries. And the owner has a great translatable german last name. Since I am a failing designer, but indeed a good baker, maybe they could open up a branch in the other River City here in the Queen City of the Midwest. I'd could get a job then.
My first suggestion-- the Donauwellen (danube waves) cake I just made for a birthday treat: It's chocolate and vanilla wave with cherries poked throughout the entire cake, topped with a butter creme, then whip cream, and a sprinkling of cocoa. I need to start networking with bakers.
Posted by: I know You know who I know that I am | Mar 12, 2007 7:40:42 PM
Food for thought.
Posted by: E Prudho | Mar 16, 2007 3:07:20 PM
LOL!!! Now I have seen everything!! Who was payed to make this ad up? To each their own I guess!!
Posted by: *Yikes* | Mar 17, 2007 8:32:45 AM
So, what are we eating now, bagels or vaginas? I love both, so, I'll take a dozen of each, with different fillings and colors, errr, flavors... Yeah that's it... flavors...
Posted by: Iva Bigun | Mar 17, 2007 1:15:59 PM
Holy crap you people are stupid. It's not saying Bagels are vaginas for godsakes. Most of you here can't seem to grasp that. Man, this ad is brilliant, I work in advertising and it's brilliant.
Posted by: Redmane | Mar 18, 2007 11:09:37 AM
Dang.... you're supposed to eat them. I was sleeping with one for two weeks. Pretty rough going if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Holdemdemon | Apr 2, 2007 1:03:58 PM
I find this add quite distorbing and I am saddened that some of you have such sick minds
Posted by: Darla | May 9, 2007 8:23:04 PM
When I eat a bagel, I like to take my time and enjoy it. Sometimes I will spread open the bagel and lick the excess cream cheese around the outside. If I'm feeling naughty, I might even use my tongue to spell the alphabet.
Posted by: rasterbator | Jun 8, 2007 1:13:37 AM
The VM play presents the sexual seduction of an underage girl as a happy initiation. It's a crime, people.
Posted by: wonderhorse | Jul 23, 2007 3:17:37 PM
hai! pliz help me to have someone who rely cares about men
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