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The Vocabulary of Snacking, Lightly Sweetened (New Snickers campaign)
Grant Barrett
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2009/03/03 - 10:50am

The Vocabulary of Snacking, Lightly Sweetened. "Mars, which is introducing a major campaign for its best-selling candy brand, Snickers, that is centered on a make-believe language called Snacklish. Snacklish is a humorous way of speaking that revises everyday words and phrases for a Snickers-centric world. To underscore their origin, they are printed in the typeface and colors of the Snickers brand logo. [...] For instance, the basketball great Patrick Ewing becomes Patrick Chewing. Combine the rapper Master P with the peanut, a main ingredient of Snickers, and he turns into Master P-nut — perhaps a hip-hop relation of the Planters brand mascot, Mr. Peanut.[...] The genesis of the Snacklish idea can be traced to elements of a campaign, also by TBWA/Chiat/Day New York, that appeared from 2006 through early 2007. There were outdoor signs in large metropolitan markets that offered made-up words like “peanutopolis” and “nougatocity,” in the typeface and colors of the Snickers logo."

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2009/03/05 - 2:39pm

This explains the “Climbing Mt. Foodji” billboard facing the Downtown Powell's.

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2009/03/05 - 3:15pm

Could be it's only graffEATi

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