Fanta-spitting OK'ed after 9 p.m.

Fanta’s ads are often weird, creepy and foreign, but now there is one that has been banned before 9 p.m. in Britain. A TV spot in the U.K. for the fruity soft drink, that shows actors spitting it out, has been relegated to late evening hours, because children were copying it. The Advertising Standards Authority got 272 official complaints, most likely from 272 angry parents, and issued this profound statement: “Spitting is widely perceived as anti-social.”