Commercial Break

Yes, I did warn of potential segues and, given that a particular, long running commercial aired last night...I must finally illustrate my puzzlement over a seemingly insignificant detail.
I refer the Excel chewing gum commercial (Excelerate your breath). The one with the chorus line of halitosis inducing foods. The blissfully cavorting coterie include such obvious examples as coffee, garlic and onions which we can all cover our mouths at the mere thought of, but ........a little, pink doughnut ? I am at a loss to grasp either the significance or the inherent pitfalls of ingesting such a seemingly harmless confection prior to a first kiss or perhaps an important business meeting.
I find it somewhat incongruous to imagine that much anticipated kiss in the back of a taxi being suddenly aborted to the words of,  "Oh baby, you have little, pink doughnut breath", or a smothered belch in a board room resulting in swiftly turned heads and the accusation of,  "Okay, who just ate little, pink doughnuts?" 
When imagining the aftertaste I think of an ever so slight taste of fat and an ever so strong taste of sugar, neither of which strike me as being unappealing.

I may very well go to my grave pondering the judgement of the account executive who approved this selection, but I may just as well go there secure in the knowledge that "little, pink doughnut breath" will not yet have seeped into the popular vernacular.

So, to that particular deep fried dough- phobic executive, may I offer a few suggestions of ingested items that would seem much more certain to repel:

- a 6 pack of Old Milwaukee and an ash tray full of Pall Mall menthols
- siphoned gasoline
- any variety of tiny, smoked fish that come in long, flat pop tab cans
- an egg salad sandwich chased with buttermilk

And to lovers of little, pink doughnuts everywhere......don't let the haters kill your carbo fix.