Your Brocolli Stalk Is… So…

Every year the superbowl shows ads ranging from hilarious, to beautiful and sometimes scandalous. Many of you may remember one of the many (NSFW) risqué GoDaddy commercials. Well, this year there was one $3 Million submission that NBC just couldn't accept (NSFW):

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty sure my past childhood just got retroactively scarred for life. For those that don't watch the clip because of it's "not safe for work" status, it's a submission by Peta (People for the ethical treatment of animals). This is the same group known for throwing blood on real fur that people are wearing as well as numerous other questionable... stunts. This time they thought they'd play it a little safer than some of their more common nudity for a cause displays and instead show a clip of very scantily clad women making very suggestive moves on some vegetables. Following this display is the message that vegetarians have better sex.

Apparently the thought with all of this is that sex sells. If you combine beautiful women with lingerie and vegetables, clearly people will want to buy and eat more of them. Furthermore, people will be so encouraged by seeing half-naked women make out with veggies and a flashy "vegetarians have better sex" message that they'll forego all meat eating.

It's curious that this veggie message is targeting men too. There's clearly little appeal to women except for a very small demographic, and it's a well-established fact that one of the American virtues of manliness is eating meat (as well as growing beards, watching football and belching). In all seriousness though, I was a vegetarian for two years. In those two years I can't speak to a sex life, but I can say that I do feel more energetic and healthy after eating some meat again. Who knows? Maybe we should host a "year of veggie sex" study to find out.