{"id":421,"date":"2011-07-31T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T20:06:59","slug":"celebrity-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that original &#8220;Karate Kid&#8221; star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/food\/stew\/chi-ralph-macchio-dove-bars-20110725,0,7800017.story\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Macchio is now promoting Dove ice cream<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure Dove&#8217;s rationale for choosing Ralph, other than his services probably come pretty cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it made me think of other celebrities and their food\/beverage endorsements. Some thoughts:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top>I still love <strong>Bob Uecker<\/strong> as the spokesperson for Miller Lite. He&#8217;s perfect because of his personality (self-depricating, humorous) and his job as the radio voice of the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Lance Armstrong <\/strong>is so f*cking awkward as the face of Michelob Ultra. Is he bicycling and drinking at the same time? Who knows with these poorly done ads.<\/td>\n<td>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aw42jf-uQcY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=top>\nPepsi has had tons of celebrities endorse its product&#8211;so many, in fact, that it has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Pepsi_spokespersons\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>. As as kid, I remember spots with <strong>Ray Charles<\/strong> (&#8220;You got the right one, baby&#8221;), <strong>Cindy Crawford <\/strong>(Pepsi stuff) and <strong>Michael J. Fox<\/strong> (&#8220;Next Generation&#8221;). So I&#8217;m a little surprised that Pepsi didn&#8217;t have any celebs endorse Crystal Pepsi, which I think should be brought back.\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tign09D5IgE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What celebrity endorsements do you like? Which do you think failed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that original &#8220;Karate Kid&#8221; star Ralph Macchio is now promoting Dove ice cream. I&#8217;m not sure Dove&#8217;s rationale for choosing Ralph, other than his services probably come pretty cheaply. Still, it made me think of other celebrities and their food\/beverage endorsements. Some thoughts: I still love Bob Uecker as the spokesperson for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[116,115],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-observations","tag-ads","tag-celebrities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}