Porn stallion Rocco Siffredi is now hawking potato chips in an Italian commercial. Not surprisingly, it’s in incredibly bad taste.
Siffredi, 41, strolls around a Hefner-esque villa with pool, clad in a red silk robe surrounded by bikinied beauties.
Thirty seconds of double-entendre follows, based on the fact that potato chip in Italian, “patatina,” is a common nickname for vagina.
Identified only as an ‘actor,’ Siffredi explains how he’s eaten so many fragrant, tasty patatine in his career from all around the world (as he slips chips into the waiting mouths of various girls) and winds up with the memorable line:
“Trust me, I’ve tasted them all, these are the best.”
Must-see TV? Here’s the potato-chip opus in streaming.
Oddly enough, though the ad has been in all the papers and is broadcast during afternoon cartoon time, there have been no formal complaints about it. Unlike when former porn star Cicciolina took to the airwaves to talk about sex one morning.
Siffredi is the latest in a series of porn actors to hit mainstream Italian TV.
Eva Henger hosted a popular blooper show last summer and Selen was on a reality program called “The Farm.” Siffredi’s name has been batted about for an upcoming version of celebrity island reality show Isola dei Famosi.
Update: A Catholic association complained about the ad, got it pulled and the rest is viral history.
Dear Mrs. Martinelli,
as you will understand through my English (or my name…), I am Italian.
I have seen this AD three/four times, and after that I heard about it from you: well, I do not think it is so bad as understood reading your article, or at least in my opinion is better then many others advetisings that concerns cleaning/drying/hygenic products with funny simulations of fluids and similar, showed specially during “eating hours”; and what about diarrhea pills or denture cleaning/fixing products?
They are more specific then the double meaning of “patatina” (children do not know Rocco Siffredi as we could, as well as the double meaning…) and the Hefner-esque enviroment…
Of course, it’s just a different opinion.
There are other worse things here, and a sexual double meaning is “a drop in the ocean”, as we say…
Best regards,
Manrico
Difference of opinion is always welcome — especially when expressed politely as you have…
When I read about the ad in the papers, I thought it might be funny…Then I downloaded it and we all had a look — the reaction (Italians included, not just my prudish American sensibility) was…Ick…
And that “patatina” was the kind of nickname kids might know, whether they knew who Rocco is or not…
But as you said, everyone has a different threshold for these things…
NM
What an absolute classic! As any Italian man who grew up in the 80s would know, Rocco is an absolute legend. Don’t worry, kids won’t understand… at least for a few years. And when they do, they’ll love Rocco and the ad too. Cicciolina made it to parliament. I’d like to second Rocco for President of the Republic.
Despite being all the way in Australia, the fact that Rocco has been idolised by my friends and I meant I got a copy of this commercial emailed to me. I dont particularly see it as tasteless and would have to agree with Manrico that children do not know who Rocco is and therefore the double meaning would have no effect on them. I think Using Rocco Siffredi to advertise anything is an incredibly clever advertising ploy. Rocco has a cult like following in Australia, so I can’t imagine the extent of his popularity in Europe let alone his home country, Italy.
My gripes about Italian telly are endless as I have seen enough tits & ass, and dancing-talentless-bubbleheads in my 20 months here to last a lifetime. In this spot one it’s all pretty typical, and the cheese-factor is pretty high. Altho him being a mega-porn cheese-ball and doing this commercial makes it actually worth a half-smile & sick chuckle along with a rolling of the eyes for good measure. (In this country you just need to grit your teeth and have a sence of humour as the formula will never change.)
I figure it could be worse – I could subject myself to some self-inflicted torture by watching an equalled 30 seconds of Buena Domenica.
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