Tired of being the forgotten step-child of the snack food industry, Mac’s Pork Skins, hoping to reverse a decades-long trend of eroding market share for pork rinds, has announced a huge product placement deal with Warner Bros new action-adventure Clash of the Titans. The announcement comes on the eve of the 3D film’s release. Said Mac’s new Chief Marketing Office, Seth Goldberg:
“Mac’s Pork Skins have long catered to the snacker who defies convention, says ‘damn the Gods’ of processed corn and wheat snacks, and opts instead for the classic taste of pork skin, the only snack that’s been enjoyed by snackers everywhere continuously since the time of the ancient Greeks. I can’t eat them myself, for religious reasons, but if I did, I’d reach for Mac’s. They’re the porkinest!”
Insiders say editors are hurriedly adding Mac’s Pork Skins to some key Clash scenes via CGI. In addition, Titans star Liam Neeson, who plays Zeus in the film, will appear in character in a few Mac’s spots set to air during the NCAA finals this weekend, in which he’ll loudly declare that we must “RELEASE THE CRACKLIN’S!”
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Hey, all He knows is the first Clash had talk about golden showers in it. Boo ya.
I am adding “It’s the porkinest” to my personal lexicon.
What “wonderful, magical animal” do pork rinds come from? I’m gonna go with triceratops.
RELEASE THE CRACKLINS is what Fek yells out in the Port-O-Lets at the State Fair.
Are they really God’s chosen people if God won’t let them eat pork? That sounds more like a punishment, because bacon is proof that God loves us.
crass snackfood tie-in ? Andy Capp is un-impressed
April Fools? April Fools.
NCAA Finals? People still watch those? So 2008. The way I understand it, hockey is what is popular these days. Go Manchester United! Bring us home the stanleys cup.
i live in birmingham. if i were to say, “release the cracklins” around here, there’d be a goddamned riot.
I wish Charlton Heston were still alive to loudly declare “IIIT’S PEEEEOOPLE”. Sure, I’d probably laugh because his head had turned to mush but he would be on to something methinks.
In related news Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? will feature adds for Smegma, for people who love the taste of classic foreskins.
Also, Mack’s Rind Skin-Pork product line will be “placed” in the Triple-D feature Snatch of the Tight-’Uns.
And this, kids, is how to compose a story based on a punny punchline.
This was great but I do miss the style of last year’s april fools joke which more directly mocked the idea of fake april fools articles
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Holy shit why do I remember the April Fool’s article from last year. What have I done with my life?
*goes back and checks Bazooka Joe post for April Fool’s tag*
Son of a… Really though. Which one makes more sense?
Liam’s wife’s head took a cracklin.
This was actually my favorite FD April Fool’s Day post: [tinyurl.com]
Usually, it’s chi-chis that I want in a movie, not chicharrones.
Luckily, Tarantino isn’t involved in Titans. He absolutely ruined Rind House.
It’s apt. I can’t think of two other products that best represent anal leakage. Sometimes synergy brings tears to my eyes.
And stains to my underwear.