Birds Eye – Salmon Fish Finger – Pink Revolations
3 April 2009 by SilkyHere’s part two of TV’s Worst Adverts‘ “Disturbingly Sexied Up” Trilogy – Birds Eye’s Salmon Fish Fingers advert.
If you did a survey of 1000 men, asking each of them to write a list 1000 things that they found “sexy”, on resultant and fairly comprehensive list of “one million things that turn men on” not one of them would have written the words “Fish Fingers”.
Not one.
In fact it’s been proven that it’s medically impossible to find sealife that’s been covered in breadcrumbs then frozen in anyway sexually exciting.
Daryl Hannah in Splash – Yes.
Daryl Hannah in Splash covered in breadcrumbs then frozen – No.
So my jaw never fails to hit the floor when I see that Birds Eye have tried to use sex to sell their new Salmon Fish Fingers:
Oh goodness.
When the *male* fish finger says “So much pink!” at the end, is he referring to a woman’s shaven bits?
If so, it’s all kinds of wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Just How Bad is this Ad?
(37 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)
19Responses:
MBeeching
Said on the 5 April 2009
I’m glad this has been submitted. It just graced my TV again and I had to come straight here to moan about it. A ‘suggestive’ fish finger, what the hell were they thinking?
Bekkers
Said on the 6 April 2009
…..oh dear, I found it quite funny.
Bigdave
Said on the 9 April 2009
I think if the world is descending into imbuing Iceland-based ‘food’ products with sexuality, we are in trouble.
Whats next? a harry ramsdens cod fillet rollerblading on the beach in hotpants, an internet leaked home video of a sausage roll and a goodfellas pizza engaged in some kind of horrible menage-a-trois with a bag of frozen mixed vegetables?
Can we venture into our local chip shop without fearing the the fat splattered neon menu boards will feature photographs lifted directly from seafood readers wives sections??
Quite apart from the fact that a salmon fish finger sounds fucking disgusting, i think we need to protect the children…i for one do not want to see legions of young’uns performing some kind of horrible filthy burlesque show on their dinner.
You could never serve toad in the hole again.
weirdedout
Said on the 9 April 2009
I just searched the net for a clip of the advert after it came on the telly, on first wtching i thought i had mis heard what wa said or suggested, after the second viewing i was amazed. It is funny, but still disturbing that it passed the regulations on sex selling products, in the past adverts such as FLAKE have been publicaly slated for insinuating oral sex , however this seems to have gone un noticed, Its may be argued that children would see the innocent side, but this may not be the case with with older children, this should be taken off the TV.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 9 April 2009
I shouldn’t worry Big Dave the phrase “Crack open a cold one” will always remind me of necrophillia…..
vryannoyed
Said on the 14 April 2009
Oh c’mon, children probably wouldn’t understand this anyway. Its no worse than some of the hidden humour in the Simpsons.
I actually find this advert quite amusing…LIGHTEN UP!!!
kaz
Said on the 20 April 2009
In the words of the famous … ‘You cannot be serious’! This advert cracks me and my family up EVERY time, and I can’t begin to tot up how many times we’ve replayed it. IT’S JUST A FISH FINGER!
Cooky
Said on the 21 April 2009
Thought it was very funny. Great to have something to laugh about before the fun police step in. What next? Will they ban Compare the meerkats Alexander as being demeaning to African wildlife???
Lighten up, it’s an advert therefore designed to grab your attention, seems to have worked.
By the way, fish finger sandwiches rock!
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 23 April 2009
Fish finger sandwiches do indeed rock, however as I am allergic to Salmon, ( it makes my face swell up, and my throat closes) I think the product should be removed, as it can be used as a murder weapon. I mean I come home from work, my wife says, “There’s your tea, darling” pointing to a nice fish finger sandwich, next thing I know, I’m on my back struggling to breathe, and the missus is asking me “Who the hell is that woman is that called for you three times today?”
It just isn’t an ideal situation, if you see what I mean.
PS Note to Silky:- shouldn’t that be Revelation?
Bigdave
Said on the 27 April 2009
Oh my cod, I have been whiting with baited breath for this advert to come along again so i can flex my brain mussels and take the oppor-tuna-ty to grasp the hook of it once again so i can remind you all thats its a big ol pile of pollacks.
The fish finger in this ad is just too provocative…she would look far better in some fishnets and high eels.
Anyway, ive haddock about enough of this, i know my plaice so im gonna clam up, bream me up scotty, im off to check out some hardcore prawn.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 27 April 2009
I saw what you did there….
Silky
Said on the 27 April 2009
Yes, nice one Bigdave but I think you meant to say “She would look far batter…”
zee
Said on the 28 April 2009
i think it s brilliant!! very funny and light hearted!! my grandkids just take as it s supposed to be….naked!! he s 5yrs and laughs!!
Bigdave
Said on the 28 April 2009
Silky my dear, i salute you.
I studied that passage before posting it several hundred times to make sure that every quantum of punnitude had been gleaned from its wretched self indulgent form, so i am heartily impressed and might even have a slight glow in my bones from encountering someone who found more.
The only excuse i might offer is that I do not come from the East of Glasgow or some horrible little peninsula off the city of Liverpool, so when i think of fish, my mind does not automatically connect with some horribly greasy neural information superhighway and link it with the wondrous item that is batter.
Though i could MURDER a kebab right now. Hold the garlic.
And now to Zee……
Pink Floyd were ‘brilliant’, Anton Chektov was ‘brilliant’, Nelson Mandela is ‘brilliant’, the creation of the NHS was ‘brilliant’, Leonardo D Vinci was ‘brilliant’, David Jason is ‘brilliant’
Some educated, respected, apparently normal grown adults are being paid obscene amounts of money to construct an advert featuring a naked, animated, sluttish marine food by-product?
IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF BRILLIANT.
Funny…? Bill Hicks was ‘funny’,….i digress….you see my point by now I am sure.
As for your poor grandkids, give them a fucking book. If they are laughing at this drviel at 5 years old, ( the age at which our government deems us capable of beginning to learn and process information), then they are just headed straight for The Jeremy Kyle show with this rest of the year 2019′s society.
For anyone who thinks this is a bit harsh? You were probably logging on a website called ‘tv’s worst adverts’, to defend the worst adverts on TV.
Have a look in the mirror. Yep that’s right. YOU ARE A MORON.
GastricExplosion
Said on the 25 September 2009
theres children watching at home.
CL
Said on the 5 October 2009
I just searched the net for a clip of the advert after it came on the telly, on first wtching i thought i had mis heard what wa said or suggested, after the second viewing i was amazed. It is funny, but still disturbing that it passed the regulations on sex selling products, in the past adverts such as FLAKE have been publicaly slated for insinuating oral sex , however this seems to have gone un noticed, Its may be argued that children would see the innocent side, but this may not be the case with with older children, this should be taken off the TV.
Charlotte Wright
Said on the 17 June 2010
How tall is Daryl Hannah anyway?;”*
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