What would happen if you ate every food advertised during the Super Bowl?
Bud Light Super Bowl commercials clock in with a massive 30,000 calories per ad.
Photo by Flickr user Dyanna.
Jon Eick examines the caloric content of Super Bowl commercials in How to Gain 60 Pounds While Watching the Super Bowl on PBS Food. Eick tracked all of the food and drinks visible on the screen and calculated how much weight you would gain if you ate and drank it all.
The most calorie-rich commercials by far came from Bud Light, with a combined total of nearly 90,000 calories over three ads. And according to Eick's calculations, if you had eaten every food and drink featured during recent Super Bowl ads, you would have gained 30 1/2 pounds in 2011, and a whopping 60 1/2 pounds in 2010.
You can read the full article on the PBS Food site.
Jessica Webster leads the Food & Grocery section for AnnArbor.com. You can reach her at JessicaWebster@AnnArbor.com.
Comments
tim
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 1:25 p.m.
The "Stuper bowl" is the largest big business con I've ever witnessed in my life. For a whole year we do all we can to avoid tv commercials. This one day people actually go out of their way to eat junk food/ get loaded/ watch commercials , and pretend to support a team that they could care less about.
ranger007
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 6:23 a.m.
This sounds like something bevis&butthead would try
Maxwell
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 2 a.m.
What would happen if you ate every food advertised during the Super Bowl? Short Answer: Vomit
Ann English
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 12:38 a.m.
I had to think awhile to come up with any food in a Super Bowl commercial. So much attention is given to other commercials, with celebrities playing roles, that food takes a back seat. The Doritos one at last year's Super Bowl was funny; Adam refusing an apple Eve offered, satisfied with his bag of Doritos.
treetowncartel
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 12:20 a.m.
If I ate everything advertised during the Super Bowl my new name would be Cornholio.
Ron Granger
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 1:01 a.m.
Do you need TP?
Ron Granger
Tue, Jan 31, 2012 : 10:35 p.m.
I'm in it for the helmet to helmet hits. And wardrobe malfunctions during the awful halftime show.
jeanarrett
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 : 6:44 p.m.
Not sure how old you are Brando, but this 50-year old probably wouldn't want to see what you've got hanging either. Go Madonna!
Ron Granger
Tue, Jan 31, 2012 : 11:36 p.m.
"Seeing plastic hanging off a 50-something year-old cannot be pretty." Joseph.... After that many surgeries, she *is* plastic.
Joseph Brando
Tue, Jan 31, 2012 : 10:56 p.m.
I am not sure if want to see Madonna's 'malfunction'. Seeing plastic hanging off a 50-something year-old cannot be pretty.
Joseph Brando
Tue, Jan 31, 2012 : 9:39 p.m.
This article would have been more effective if a few sentences were devoted to actually breaking down at least one commercial and the food shown. With out it, this seems like a powder-puff piece that is merely promoting a PBS article. C'mon AA.com....put some effort into this if you want my loyalty.