Were you around when the "incest" Folgers Commercial first played on TV?

Also - question # 2 - what's Folgers coffee like?

That has to be an SNL skit?

There's nothing really creepy about it until she says "you're my present" in a come hither way. They should have had a bigger gap and made it more wholesome. But yeah, they were actors and not good at the platonic stuff.

I didn't have any brothers or sisters growing up so I thought it was something I couldn't relate to.

Never thought of it that way, just thought they young blond dude was hot.

Here's the extended cut!

The extended cut

Sorry, r5. Your post hadn't shown up when I posted.

[quote]Were you around when the "incest" Folgers Commercial first played on TV?

Since this commercial came out in 2009, I imagine Bryan Singer is watching this thread with his fingers crossed that someone says "no."

He's a cunt.

So they don't have "real coffee" in West Africa?

Kenya and Ethiopia are right next door, motherfucker!

Not to mention that the Ivory Coast also grows coffee.

Ethiopia is the birthplace of Arabica coffee, so I don't know what the fuck he is complaining about.

Where are the actors who appeared in this? Did they ever comment?

My father loved Folgers!

R10, he wants shit Folgers! He doesn't want real coffee.

I like the way the present has "African" wrapping paper.

Folgers isn't bad, especially the Black Silk kind. With coffee it's not so much how expensive it is but how you prepare it. If you prepare Folgers the right way, it tastes fine. Here is an article about the science of coffee. I am very particular about my "method" -- pour over with almost boiling coffee, etc. etc.

[quote]Ethiopia is the birthplace of Arabica coffee, so I don't know what the fuck he is complaining about.

It probably doesn't taste like AMERICAN coffee. In fact, I'm sure it doesn't.

Real coffee contains his sister's pussy juice, that's why he couldn't take African coffee.

[quote]It probably doesn't taste like AMERICAN coffee. In fact, I'm sure it doesn't.

I'm sure, too, since American coffee is processed crap

The original domesticated coffee plant is said to have been from Harar, and the native population is thought to be derived from Ethiopia with distinct nearby populations in Sudan and Kenya. Coffee was primarily consumed in the Islamic world where it originated and was directly related to religious practices

I miss the GF International Coffee. I used to drink that Suisse Mocha as a kid like it was Nestle Quik.

The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie,[3] borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from the Arabic qahwah (قهوة).

R18, don't go and trigger the bigots with facts.

The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the late 15th century, by Sufi Imam Muhammad Ibn Said Al Dhabhani who is known to have imported goods from Ethiopia to Yemen.[1]

Coffee beans was first exported out of Ethiopia to Yemen by Somali merchants from Berbera. In addition, Mocha, which was the centre of the coffee trade for much of the early modern era, obtained most of their coffee from Somali merchants based in Berbera.[16][17] Sufis in Yemen used the beverage as an aid to concentration and as a kind of spiritual intoxication when they chanted the name of God.[18] Sufis used it to keep themselves alert during their nighttime devotions. A translation of Al-Jaziri's manuscript[19] traces the spread of coffee from Arabia Felix (the present day Yemen) northward to Mecca and Medina, and then to the larger cities of Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Constantinople. By 1414, the beverage was known in Mecca, and in the early 1500s was spreading to the Mameluke Sultanate of Egypt and North Africa from the Yemeni port of Mocha.[11][18] Associated with Sufism, a myriad of coffee houses grew up in Cairo (Egypt) around the religious University of the Azhar. These coffee houses also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo,[18] and then in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, in 1554.[18] In 1511, it was forbidden for its stimulating effect by conservative, orthodox imams at a theological court in Mecca.[20] However, these bans were to be overturned in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Suleiman I, with Grand Mufti Mehmet Ebussuud el-İmadi issuing a fatwa allowing the consumption of coffee.[21] In Cairo a similar ban was instituted in 1532, and the coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee beans were sacked.[22] During the 16th century, it had already reached the rest of the Middle East, the Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire. From the Middle East, coffee drinking spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, and coffee plants were transported by the Dutch to the East Indies and to the Americas.[2]

Usually threads here on DL devolve into sex. This one started with incest and morphed into the etymology and cultural origins of coffee!

Where coffee comes from

And this is why I drink tea.

And it's why I love DL, R23. I love learning historical things like this almost as much as a thread about the best lemon meringue recipe devolving into a couple of posters screaming "cunt" at each other.

In the past as well, coffee threads in the past have turned into intelligent and interesting discussions.

Rofl R16!

That really makes the difference in taste.

I think the director now works for pornhub.

There was nothing incestuous about this commercial, the brother was returning home after a long absence. It was very sweet and to answer your second question, Folgers is a very good coffee. I love the dark version.

Here he is now, holding his daughtercousiniece.

No sibling looks at their sibling that way no matter how long its been since they've seen each other, R30. Unless they live in Alabama and one went to Walmart for an hour.

LOL, R31!

And here’s the sister greeting their father when he got home from work on Valentine’s Day 2017.

R24, Was that where I sent my gift of 1 year of free Netflix to my adorable little Darphur Ophan guy?

R5 That is hilarious.

Bro seems gay.

If coffee comes from Ethiopia, what was he doing in West Africa?

No doubt a CIA operative providing weapons to rebel groups to foment yet another civil war.

He was complaining that there's no good coffee in West Africa, R38.

So he had to fly back to America to drink his Folger's coffee.

Ethiopia doesn't directly pertain to the commercial, because Ethiopia is actually in EAST Africa. But since he was already in Africa, he could have tried some African coffee, since so much of it is grown there.

It's a stretch to connect Ethiopia to West Africa, but so is his complaining about there being no good coffee in Africa.

Phew. That was exhausting to explain.

One Christmas morning my daughter served my son shitty tasting coffee and then . . . Oh, forget about it.

And like, who says they’re in “west Africa” r9? Wouldn’t you say like Senegal or Cameroon or whatever country you were in?

LOL r41!

Is West Africa more “Middle Eastern” types?

I know someone told me certain parts of Africa they aren’t even “black” but more Middle Eastern type like Egypt.

That's north Africa. Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, etc.

has anyone ever had Kona coffee? I’ve always wanted to try it.

If I ever meet Mr. Right I would love to honeymoon in Hawaii.

[quote] Is West Africa more “Middle Eastern” types?

No, that's North Africa, R44. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

West Africa is also known as "Sub-Saharan" Africa, like Congo, Nigeria, Niger, Liberia, Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and a lot of smaller countries.

I was around when a Folgers ran the real story of Peter's Christmas trip home.

PSA from American men to western world!

OOOOOOOOOOPS BIG OOOOOOOOPS

I MEANT AFRICAN MEN

********NOT*******

i REPEAT ******NOT******

WHATEVER I SAID

WHOOPSIE!

LOL @ R48.

The best part of waking up

Is your brother busting a nut

I don’t know how some of you are ok with incest. It’s gross.

It's a shame that by hugging her he gave her ebola.

I laughed way too hard #R52

Their grandmother should lock them in the attic.

@*

They just look like they wanted to fuck on the table

Does anyone remember the International Coffee series of commercials where a British man and woman slowly fall in love over their sweet instant coffee?

Clearly they were marketing it to brothers and sisters who fuck each other. So why not.

Folger's. Alabama's Favorite Coffee.

The girl in the commercial also never woke up her dad when he fucked her.

Fuck flavuh.

R62 the dad is dead now from eating the pussy. Throat cancer.

I don't know why we are not talking about the mom. When she hugs the son she grabs his dick.

The extended cut was apparently a parody but I saw nothing wrong with the original. I think some people are reading something into it with their sick and twisted minds.

r66 probably also thinks the porn baby with dog is fine.

r66 you didn't notice the come hither looks between the brother and sister? They were acting like lovers.

What in the fuck are you talking about, r67?

R59. Yes, that mini-soap opera was a lovely ad campaign. IIRC the man and woman were neighbors.

Porn baby with dog

I hate crazy families.

R68 plus who the fuck stays awake all fucking night for their brother? A whore getting dicked by the brother that's who.

Some of you must come from dysfunctional families where no one cares about each other.

Here is the parody version. Hope it plays in your country.

Better than coming from a dysfunctional family where brothers and sisters FUCK each other, R74.

It's interesting how Africa's native beverage, coffee, is dark like the heart of Africa's pagan soul.

And in the west, we drink milk, which is white to match our pure Christian souls.

R76 I don't see the incest. That is in the dirty mind of the beholder.

Another funny one.

My coffee had no incest, no caffeine, and it was more than good, it's LIVELY!

[quote]I miss the GF International Coffee. I used to drink that Suisse Mocha as a kid like it was Nestle Quik.

I'm pretty sure you can still find that stuff at Target, Walmart and probably elsewhere. I know that I've seen it.

I love the parents sniffing the air liked dogs when the aroma of Folgers reaches their bedroom...then galloping downstairs.

No wonder their kids are weird.

[quote]And in the west, we drink milk, which is white to match our pure Christian souls.

Except Christianity is a MIDDLE EASTERN religion. That's the part the imitation cheese Christians in the west always seem to forget with their bullshit images of Jeebus.

dint see a dam thing wrong with the commercial . if uve had a sis u loved a lot, it seems normaL. NOT SEXUAL DAMMIT

love lauren Bacall's cancer deep voice . she shoulda done ads for Luckies...

Oh my God R48. I'm crying. Funniest post I've seen in a while.

"Mom and dad are still asleep. Let's fuck!"

“Mom, Dad, calm down. She can’t have throat babies!”

Fuck them, I lied the whole time. I drank Maxwell House, thank you Vivian Vance

Why is the car honking? The guy in the VW gave him a lift got stuck in the snow?

Or is there a more subtle underlying theme at work?

But she wanted cha-cha shoes!

Did Folgers ever comment on the furore?

[quote]Folgers isn't bad, especially the Black Silk kind. With coffee it's not so much how expensive it is but how you prepare it. If you prepare Folgers the right way, it tastes fine.

Only white trash drink Folgers.

Grinding your own beans and using a French press really makes a huge differences. It’s so much more full bodied.

Forget incest, the weirdest thing is when the girl says “sisterrr!!” at the front door, like we’re all too fucking stupid to make the connection. That’s the best the writers could do?

[quote]and using a French press really makes a huge differences

MARY!

[quote]the weirdest thing is when the girl says “sisterrr!!” at the front door, like we’re all too fucking stupid to make the connection.

Clarification was necessary in anticipation of what was to follow.

I like the jingle at the end. It's very American (in the best possible corny way).

He obviously gets off on banging his sister. His sister is insecure and she is feeling a little dowdy after staying up all night, yet she is hot to trot. So she uses the magic trigger word because she knows calling out sister means instaboner!

[quote]Forget incest, the weirdest thing is when the girl says “sisterrr!!” at the front door, like we’re all too fucking stupid to make the connection. That’s the best the writers could do?

I always smile at writers hamfistedly doing genetic exposition with dialogue.

How many people call their sister "sis" every time they say something to her?

I love this thread.

The best part of waking up is your brother in your butt!

He's been in fucking AFRICA for months, yet he arrives back with all the woolens requisite for a winter in Chicago? How does that work?

There's no incest because he's gay, that's why the girl calls him "sister".

That actor went from bad to worse.

R104 It’s the Folgers!

Even Vanity Fair covered this, incl. an extensive interview with the actor.

[quote]“I love Folgers coffee,” Alan sheepishly admits to me before taking a long hesitating pause, “ . . . but I’m more of a French-press type of guy.

[quote]He and Catherine Combs, the actress playing the sister from the commercial, didn’t meet until the[bold] first day of filming on set in a house covered with fake snow in Santa Monica.[/bold]

& you all fell for it as a Chicago suburb!

I used to think the actor and actress had a thing for each other and it came across on camera. But the actor's confession that he's "a French press guy" has muddied the waters.

They’re girls and cousins too.

The sister uses a very "I've been fucking all night " style photo on her twitter page

^ I think you mean, post-coitol.

She's a VERY GOOD dramatic actress, who manages to say so much whilst not actually saying anything.

This could be at the root of the problem.

[quote]think you mean, post-coitol.

Oh, dear.

I just watched it for the first time. It was certainly cheesy. But am I the only one who doesn't see anything particularly weird? It was just a corny commercial. I've noticed most commercials geared towards families show an over the top level of lovey dovey warmth you just don't see in most homes. But I honestly don't see what people are referring to. And before some bitchy conmenter starts, no my name is not Cletus.

The actress wanted to blow the actor. That’s all. You would, too!

Someone needs to make a slo-mo gif of the sisterly gazes.

Edit :commenter. I'll oh dear myself.

[quote]I love the parents sniffing the air liked dogs when the aroma of Folgers reaches their bedroom...then galloping downstairs.

That was the unmistakable scent of freshly wet pussy wafting through the house. Mom and a Dad raced downstairs to stop the kids in case they were roleplaying as Jaime and Cersei again.

Maybe Sis read “Flowers in the Attic” one too many times.

R89, yes, I think the guy's clunky VW may have broken down which leads him to signal for help. Or maybe Peter told his Datalounger ride to wait for him with the promise of hot cock while he had a cup of Christmas coffee first... I think it's open to interpretation. Never-the-less, Dlers are known for impatience. It's the hallmark of the Caftan Brigade.

R83, what kind of pedant are you that you would fail to recognize the utter facetiousness of R77's comment?

R121, I absolutely recognized the facetiousness, which is why my comment wasn't directed specifically @R77, but just a reminder to the racist assholes who now infest DL like cockroaches.

[quote] Or maybe Peter told his Datalounger ride to wait for him with the promise of hot cock while he had a cup of Christmas coffee first... I think it's open to interpretation.

Peter said good-bye to the Datalounger and the car drove off!

I think the car probably spun around in the snow and capsized, hence the manic "HELP ME!" honking.

But Peter's so fucking self-obsessed and needing to impress and win the approval of his cold mother and vacant father, he can't even hear the car once he's in the house.

That DLer chose the wrong guy for a fuck buddy.

Lol@r123

Also, it could be that Peter's ride noticed Peter left his splooge-soaked tightey-whities on the floorboard. DLers are also known for their fastidious tidyiness.

why do you have to hate "family" if you are gay? i don't.

TL;DR, but this is the true story of what happened...

Peter changed to an earlier flight and, after being duped on Grindr, spent the night at the townhouse the DLer shares with Mother and a blind chihuahua named Miss Mazeppa. The morning after, Peter made the mistake of taking a shower and using one of the two towels in the bathroom.

Worse, he completely ignored the timer and the laminated instructions the DLer hung from the shower head after getting into his eleventh shrieking match with the home health aides.

“The temerity of these cunts! How dare they run my hot water for more than 90 seconds! And then to blame Mother’s incontinence and macerated perineum for their prolonged water-wasting?? Well, I’ve never in all my life!!”

As is always the case, the DLer took out his impotent rage on Peter, billing him $12 for water, $2 for shampoo, $8 for the laundering of the towel, and $175 for the Drakkar Noir soap-on-a-rope, which the DLer had purchased in 1984 for display purposes ONLY.

Apart from a few West African coins, poor Peter only had $9 with him but the DLer wasn’t about to let him off the hook. After Peter’s wanton destruction of a rare luxury soap, why would he? No, he was going to drive Peter home and wait outside for his money. Better yet, he would charge Peter for gas!

Alas, as soon as Peter locked eyes with his hot, willing, and insatiable sister, our DLer’s frantic honking went completely unheard....forever.

They say that if you wait outside Peter’s house at midnight on Christmas Eve, you can still hear ghostly screaming, honking, and a keyboard being pounded in rage.

R126, and the final insult was when Peter invited the DLer inside to share the family’s tradition of welcoming Christmas morning with hot coffee, drained pasta, and a Deanna Durbin film festival (because Judy is “overrated”).

OMG, r126. I'm tearng up on your post. Lol. Your scenario is pure DL down to the laminated instructions and billing of the used essentials. Hopefully Peter is more careful with whom he receives rides. Bravo!

Mom: "I smell coffee. You know what that means."

Dad: "Yeah, the kids are downstairs fucking again."

Mom: "Goddammit we'd better get down there. I don't want to have to take her for another abortion."

Plot twist: the parents are actually brother and sister.

I’m howling...This thread has the makings of a DL classic.

Studies show that incestuous families prefer Folgers to any other brand of coffee.

I'm thinking the brother was in Africa being a PA on this commercial

[quote] I'm thinking the brother was in Africa being a PA on this commercial

Nah, he was looking for BBC.

He's my Brother. Father. Brother. Father, He's my Brother AND my Father!

^ LOL

Actually, I agree, it is bizarre that she reminds him she's his sister when he walks through the door - and then they laugh...I guess in a sort of "fuck that!" kind of way.

[quote]Mom: "I smell coffee. You know what that means." Dad: "Yeah, the kids are downstairs fucking again."

LOL # 2

He's the cream in her coffee, and the frosting on her doughnuts...

I wonder why Highpoint never became a top selling brand like Folgers or Maxwell House. Was it really crappy tasting or was it the generic, patrician sounding name that did it in? I mean, Lauren Bacall is a huge get for pushing coffee.

He obviously prefers mount and groan coffee.

Was she fingering herself as she "waited up all night" for her big dicked brother to come home?

R142 But of course, and sniffed his jock at the same time.

She had been waiting for his big ol' percolator.

So if cake is to sodomy, coffee is to incest I suppose.

[quote]And like, who says they’re in “west Africa” [R9]? Wouldn’t you say like Senegal or Cameroon or whatever country you were in?

Maybe he was travelling around WEST AFRICA and wasn't just stuck in one place. But I admire your attention to detail VERY MUCH.

They didn’t know what time his flight was getting in? If it was delayed, or missed it, he wouldn’t have called/texted/emailed?

I wonder if he was doing missionary work or Peace Corps or something, and maybe gone for 2 years. That could explain why the sister looks different to him, in that time she might have had her braces removed, gotten taller, grew tits, maybe her skin cleared up etc.

For bland white people like this, ‘real’ coffee is probably the supermarket brand doused with milk and sugar, where in Africa (home of the actual ‘real’ coffee) it’s probably served thick and black in tiny cups. I drank it that way in Egypt (and also non-Africa Turkey) and didn’t love it because i’m not a huge coffee fan and it was too strong. I much prefer tea.

[quote]I like the way the present has "African" wrapping paper.

R14's observation (above) is one of my favorites of this thread.

R147 That’s addressed in the longer cut of the commercial.

Sister: [Opens door.] I’m your sister!

Brother: Hey! You were supposed to pick me up at the airport!

Sister: I know. I got distracted by the delicious aroma of Folger’s coffee.

Brother: I had to take a taxi.

Sister: I’m sorry. I’m a bad girl.

Brother: You’re a very bad girl.

Sister: Please don’t tell mommy and daddy.

Brother: I will unless you do everything I say. On your knees!

[quote] Ethiopia is the birthplace of Arabica coffee, so I don't know what the fuck he is complaining about.

Pffft. Oh, pish-posh. Everybody knows [italic]real[/italic] coffee comes from Seattle. Pike Place, to be exact. That quaint little shop with the naked two-tailed mermaid.

GoT prequel, depicting the early years of the Lannister siblings - just with budget US coffee instead of medieval red wine.

[quote]i’m not a huge coffee fan and it was too strong. I much prefer tea.

If you're American I guess you're referring to the dreadful Liptons.

Only white trash drink Liptons.

[QUOTE] If you're American I guess you're referring to the dreadful Liptons.

I am American, yes. And I do drink Tetley and Lipton at home, or Salada, or PG Tips. But in those countries I mentioned who knows brand what they are serving, it comes out of a large ornate silver device and it brews all day and you drink it in small clear glasses, with or without a sugar cube. It’s most likely loose leaves and tea dust.

Nope. Don't see anything but a brother away for a long time, a sister who loved and looked up to him, and a nice family moment depicted in the typical American fashion of too much schmaltz to be believable.

He does kinda look like he wants to poke her in the cooter in that commercial.

I’m surprised that they didn’t let the two fuck and get it out of their system before they filmed

Brother: "You made Folgers!"

Sister: "We'll have some after I suck your dick. Thanks for the present, by the way. Love the paper it's in. Did the booga-boogas wrap this for you?"

I wish this commercial still aired every year. They still show the same Hershey’s Kisses ad every Christmas, so why not this? It should be a yearly tradition to be made uncomfortable by incestuous coffee commercials.

A new article on this.

"The best part of waking up...is incestuous!"

In the name of inclusiveness, they should remake the commercial with two step-brothers and two gay dads. That'll give them something to wake up to.

My sister and I are like the commerical. Of course I'm gay. But it's not odd. Well, not to me anyway.

just a reminder, Folgers coffee are not made from 100% arabica beans, for a few minority group of people they may ague they prefer the bitter taste robusta beans, but for Folgers, the reason they choose to mix robusta beans etc into their cans or bags is purely economical, since they are much cheaper than arabica beans. If I am not mistaken, Folgers's new 1850 line is the only one made from 100% arabica beans, all their other coffees are mixed from cheaper coffee beans.

[quote]r19 I miss the GF International Coffee. I used to drink that Suisse Mocha as a kid like it was Nestle Quik.

I was around, but don't remember it at all. I didn't get an icest vibe; well a little at the end when he looked at her. The parody at R5 is hysterical.

The ad would work if the sister were noticeably younger and the brother had returned from the military. But she's a nubile teen and he's returned from the Peace Corps or somesuch and they make moo moo eyes at each other and when she says he is her gift he bites his lips... no.

I'm surprised Folgers allow that spoof @ R5 to remain on YouTube.

LOL I totally remember this commercial!

R167 what made you dig out this old thread?

I came across it on YouTube when searching for cold drip coffee tutorials. And lo and behold you had started a thread alread!

It turned into a very funny thread.

A lot of the posters on here have since been red-tagged trolls.

OP has only had a loving relationship with his cat. We condole him/her.

^^ Ooops "we" trolling.

Do DLers remember the coffee commercials with the sort of implied affair. I think it was Folgers, or Tasters Choice. They were wry; I enjoyed them.

The British ones, R176? I think that was Nescafe.

Nescafe Blend 43 in Australia did a knock off version. It had a divorced woman moving to a country valley and meeting a widowed man. I think there were at least 5 ads before they kissed. It was a whole soap opera. The woman's daughter returned to the big smoke to study music and the ex-husband turned up to give his blessing to the new guy. It featured the panpipe tune from Picnic At Hanging Rock!

[quote]Peter’s wanton destruction of a rare luxury soap

😂 😂 😂

Best thread in a long time hahahaha.

I love the people who say "I don't see what's wrong. I don't know what you're talking about". You always have these people in life. They can't SEE anything.

But, they actually didn't do anything despite whatever incest undertones we might interpret, R181, and it's a commercial. So, there's nothing technically wrong. The actors aren't going to be charges with incest. As if people seeing incest in this commercial have some great powers.

I'm going to bump this because it's so hilarious (even if I say so myself) and some people will have missed it.

The spoof version's had over 3 MILLION views.

This jewellery ad is like a Very Special Episode. The new step father seems like a child molester.

There's nothing like going on a volunteer trip in Sichuan or Sicily and coming home for a nice Panda Express or Olive Garden.

The 70s Folgers ad with Stephen Collins no less didn't need much to make it creepy.

I am totally howling that on Youtube it's titled Folgers Incest Commercial.

Brand nightmare in marketing!