Edible Arrangements – Who can eat that much fruit?
I completely understand giving an Edible Arrangements bouquet o’ fruit to, say, somebody in your office on their birthday. Then the whole department can chow down on the massive pile of artistically carved fruit. But recent ads of theirs have been suggesting giving one to your dad for Father’s Day, and I have to wonder: can anyone eat that much fruit before it goes bad? It’s all cut up already, so it probably doesn’t have a very long shelf life, and I personally could only eat so much before I would be kind of sick of it. I suppose you could blend it into a smoothie, and of course the family will be pitching in, but it still seems like an awkward gift. Plus they start at $40, I think, which is a bit much for fruit. Just go to the grocery store, spend thee bucks on as much fruit as you can eat, and make a fruit salad. Seriously. Now if they made a bouquet out of tacos or beers, I’d pay attention.
Here’s the Father’s Day clip (as a belated nod to the holiday), followed by another of their ads that’s a little funnier. The woman sounds like she’s a little slow.