For years people have snickered about the name of that utterly delicious French-invented mustard Grey Poupon. So the company decided to turn it into an ad — which was banned from TV:
NOTE: Kraft Grey Poupon has a history of having fun with their product. Read THIS example of people who love their job and their product when it became a political issue.
And there was even a follow up as partisans investigated.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.