From misleading mangled popsicles to magical weight loss underpants, we count 10 Hilarious
Examples of False Advertising.
10 - SpongeBob • The
person that purchased this popsicle was probably expecting a nice little ice cream version
of everybody’s favourite sea character: Spongebob Squarepants.
• Instead what they got was a horrifying corpse of a deranged zombie popsicle.
It looks he has been impaled on that stick and his eyes look like they’ve exploded.
I wonder if the factory made him this way or he melted into a corpse on the way to the
store.
• The worst bit is that haunting toothy smile, which says ‘hey kid I might just
eat your soul while you sleep’. 9 –BioSlim
• What’s worse than false advertising is when people are stupid enough to believe
it in the first place.
• In 2001, Nivea brought out a cosmetic cream called BioSlim that claimed it could
literally make you lose weight by applying it to your skin regularly.
I’m no scientist but rubbing cream into your ass to lose weight seems about as sensible
as putting peanut butter in your coffee to cure baldness.
• Nivea was forced to take the product off the shelf and pay over $900,000 to the gullible
people who bought the product.
8 – Pepperoni Pizza • Imagine walking into your local supermarket
with a hankering for some tasty meaty pizza only to come across this sorry excuse for
a snack.
• The label claims that it’s a pepperoni pizza – but inside the packaging is one
single lonely slice of pepperoni on an 8 inch pizza base.
I guess in all technicality they aren’t lying but it’s just not acceptable.
• What were the chefs even thinking?
Is there some sort of critical worldwide pepperoni shortage that I wasn’t aware of?
7 – Classmates Reunion • A website claiming to reunite old school
friends was sued when it turned out that they were promising to reunite people who didn’t
even exist.
• Classmates.com told their users that if they paid for a membership upgrade they would
be reconnected with all their best buddies from their childhood.
Turns out it was just a big lie, and the website was forced to refund their disappointed customers’
moneys.
• It just goes to show that people are deceiving and the world is a terrible place.
6 – Rice Krispies • Parents love to give their kids healthy
snacks, so why wouldn’t they believe that a bowl of cereal can drastically improve their
immune systems.
• In 2010, Kellogg’s started advertising that their Rice Krispies cereal had the ability
to improve the immune systems of kids and give them 25% of their daily vitamin needs.
The Federal Trade Commission said that this claim was pretty ‘dubious’ and told Kellogg’s
to knock it off.
• Next they’ll be telling us that the puffed rice does not in fact snap, crackle
OR pop.
5 - Pretzels • This machine has a notice that is telling
some straight up fast food lies.
• One can see that the oven in question is jam-packed with freshly cooked, delicious
looking pretzels.
Yet the deceiving sign on the front of the machine claims that they are ‘Out of Pretzels’.
If those bendy pastries are not pretzels, than what exactly are they?
Figments of my imagination?
Or is the poster being more esoteric – is it suggesting that it is on the outside of
the machine, like out of *range* of pretzels.
• Either way, ‘Sorry for the inconvenience’ is just not good enough.
I want my damned pretzel. 4 – Easter Pope
• Nothing makes me angrier than when I buy a chocolate resembling the pope, only to find
dairy-based lies under the wrapper.
• The company that produced this chocolate treat must’ve thought they were being pretty
clever when they used their leftover Easter bunny designs to sell their new season pope-themed
chocolates. 3 – Berry Loaf
• Here’s another example of a company giving absolutely zero fucks about what you
want.
• This bakery is offering a ‘berry loaf’ which seems to be just that - a loaf of bread
with one berry.
How generous of them to create such a flavour-filled treat.
The advertisement next to it clearly promises at least a dozen.
• Maybe the pizza chef and this baker are the same guy, ruining people’s lives one
shitty baked good at a time.
2 – Baby Can Read • Have you ever seen a two-year old reading
a novel?
Or even reading anything for that matter?
No.
It’s because they can’t.
• A company that promised it could teach kids to read whole books before the age of
3 was sued and forced to take its products off the market in account of flagrant false
advertising.
The program was called, ‘Your Baby Can Read!’, but they just didn’t mention that no baby
has ever read anything in the history of babies.
• Not only are most babies not geniuses, they don’t even understand how to not shit
their own pants.
1 – Caffeine Pants • It seems that some people will try anything
to lose weight, except for you know, eating healthy and exercising.
• A couple of companies recently developed caffeine-infused undergarments that allegedly
advertised they could make you lose weight by somehow magically dissappearing your fat
cells.
I don’t know whether it’s sadder that someone actually made these – or that people
thought coffee in your underpants was a legitimately good idea.
• There are no shortcuts to weight loss and good health.
Just good old fashioned sweating, self-control and emotional support.