9Responses:

• Ian Finlayson

  

  Said on the 21 March 2008

  Glad to see someone else recognising how bad this advert is. My girlfriend doesn’t seem to find it objectionable… Grounds for dumping if ever there was one.

• rob

  

  Said on the 24 March 2008

  i think its great and catchy

• Michelle

  

  Said on the 8 April 2008

  My God

  That really is shite and just as bad as their previous ad where they sang Sa Sa Sa then a bit of italian gibberish then Cla Cla Cla.

  So the products has a two syllable name – get over it. Makes you realise that, despite all the nice holidays and seductive travel/cookery programmes, Europeans are fundamentally different from us.

  By different I mean naff.

• Smithybobbins

  

  Said on the 8 May 2008

  I want the chopping noise to extend to me cleaving his hands and head from the rest of him. You can just imagine the ad execs- dynamic, thrusting, exciting.

  Or just toss.

• pinnypops

  

  Said on the 9 May 2008

  As soon as I saw this advert I thought of Lasse Gjertsen’s videos on YouTube. They MUST have nicked the idea from him??

• Salmonboy

  

  Said on the 9 May 2008

  Supposedly Lasse Gjertsen wanted to take legal action against this, but not sure what the outcome is/was.

• Jonny Chestwig

  

  Said on the 9 May 2008

  Who the devil is Lasse Gjertsen?

• Salmonboy

  

  Said on the 9 May 2008

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A

  Presenting Lasse – one of the most popular Youtube vids ever.

• Games Volcano

  

  Said on the 3 August 2008

  Caroline Riches

  Dear Mr. James,

  We are aware that Mr Gjertsen’s work uses a similar editing technique to our commercial. This technique has been in existence for many years and, whilst Mr Gjertsen’s work is renowned for its use, it is by no means exclusive to him. Furthermore, given the substantial amount of material differences between the commercial and Mr Gjertsen’s work – actual construction, the setting, the music, the use of kitchen utensils instead of real instruments and so on – we would refute any suggestion of plagiarism.

  Kind regards

  Caroline Riches

  Sacla UK Limited
  Basil House
  21 London End
  Beaconsfield
  Bucks
  HP9 2HN

  ROFL stupid corporate whore, this is the best answer she could give me in response to me explaining it’s a blatant copy of the famous youtube video. You don’t just come up with this kind of thing, i spat my coffee out when I read her reply in a corporate jargon type explanation. A better response would have been:

  [Hi Mr James,

  We thought that people would like our own version of Lasse's YouTube video, as recogition of it's originality and humour. ]

  I’m never buying Sac Ha again.