Ad of the Day: Athenos

Kraft's feta cheese spokeswoman returns, and still hates (almost) everything about young people

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Your cranky, conservative grandmother still thinks you have sex for money. Now, you're just doing it on camera, too.

The Athenos Yiayia (Greek for grandma) is back to offer her disapproving takes on the sun-bathing, video-chatting lifestyles of today's young people—and to pitch the Kraft-owned brand's prepackaged feta cheese. The charmingly cantankerous old woman, conceived and created by Droga5, isn't known to pull punches. Last year, in a spot selling hummus, she opined that a young lady's relatively modest cocktail dress might be better suited for a prostitute.

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