Agony of the Feet: HeelTastic and Heel Stick Commercials Ruin Countless Meals
September 8th, 2009 Paul Lucas
Last year the commercial for the PedEgg cheese-grater-for-the-feet assaulted TV viewers with images of gnarly feet getting scrubbed like a blocks of parmesan. Now the commercial for HeelTastic is delighting viewers all over again:
At the beginning the commercial appears to be a scene out of Saw but the only person who really gets tortured is the viewer. You just know that countless meals have been ruined when the unexpected sight of dry and cracked feet appeared on screen.
I remember an episode of King of the Hill in which Peggy Hill was hired as foot model for a fetish website showing big ugly feet. Now thanks to the HeelTastic ad we can all enjoy looking at random disgusting feet, and we don’t even need a pop-up blocker!
Apparently, the product has gone through a name change. HeelTastic used to be called Heel Stick. You can see that the Heel Stick commercial is nearly identical to the HeelTastic commercial, sanding tool and all:
