There are some foods that have a lot to gain from a texture enhancing close-up. Mousse is not one of those foods. Especially when that mousse is by itself on a spoon.
I understand it’s from Jell-O so maybe they didn’t want to fancy it up, but I know I’ve seen pudding ads where they put some raspberries or something else with the pudding. It may not seem like much but that can make a difference.
The way the ad is now it just looks like… well, we all know what it looks like and it’s very unpleasant. My sisters initially found this ad and I overheard them laughing and talking about how awful it looked so, naturally, I went over to see what the fuss was about. Sure enough, it was pretty bad.
A much more effective ad would be the mousse looking all fancy but with the Jell-O container in the background… or maybe the the mousse looking all fancy IN the Jell-O container. How this made it out the door we may never know.