Barilla Brings Pasta Fiends on Nostalgic Trip to Italy

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Euro RSCG, Chicago has awakened pasta brand Barilla from its seemingly long ad-sleep with a new campaign called "Discover Italy. Discover Barilla."

The microsite (disable your pop-up blocker) fuses Italian culture with regional -- and totally pasta-centric -- recipes. While salivating for pesto you can explore Cinque-Terre and Parma, with more locations to come in '08.

Here's a print from the campaign. Just the look of it makes us hungry, and a little lonely for a warm Italian mother clutching a rolling pin.

It's always scary when an ad imbibes you with fond memories that aren't actually yours.

Written by Angela Natividad    Comments (10)     File: Brands, Good, Magazine, Online     Nov-21-07  

Comments

A bit slow, but makes me hungry. Not stereotypical as I thought, nice

Posted by: EdWOod on November 21, 2007 06:11 AM

An ad can't "imbibe you". In fact, nothing can.


Posted by: sorry angie on November 21, 2007 03:35 PM

I imbibe an elixir of fond memories every Saturday night.

I think you might have been searching for "imbue".

Posted by: yeah, too bad, angie on November 21, 2007 03:54 PM

I thought we had the week off?

Posted by: grammar nazis on November 21, 2007 05:51 PM

This is really great information. I really love Barilla products. I hope all goes well.

Posted by: Donald Mckenzie Jr on November 21, 2007 10:08 PM

This is really great information. I really love Barilla products. I hope all goes well.

Posted by: Donald Mckenzie Jr on November 21, 2007 10:09 PM

This is really great information. I really love Barilla products. I hope all goes well.

Posted by: Donald Mckenzie Jr on November 21, 2007 10:10 PM

This is really great information. I really love Barilla products. I hope all goes well.

Posted by: Donald Mckenzie Jr on November 21, 2007 10:11 PM

Huh? What�s so great about this stuff? OK, it beats the standard Chef Boyardee offerings, but it�s hardly worth gushing over. Perhaps someone is being imBribed to hype the work�? A lot of these comments look like they were planted by Barilla employees. Somebody see what Mama Celeste has to say about this.

Posted by: Tony Soprano on November 22, 2007 01:54 PM

Somebody messed with my earlier post. Here it is again...

Huh? What�s so great about this stuff? OK, it beats the standard Chef Boyardee offerings, but it�s hardly worth gushing over. Perhaps someone is being imBribed to hype the work�? A lot of these comments look like they were planted by Barilla employees. Somebody see what Mama Celeste has to say about this.

Posted by: Tony Soprano on November 22, 2007 01:57 PM

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