An Outraged Grandmother Is Furious With P&G's Gain for This Stinker of an Ad

Standing up for mee-maws everywhere

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Granite Bay, Calif., resident and senior citizen Randee Reidy is raising a stink over a recent ad for Procter & Gamble's Gain laundry detergent that associates grandmothers with a stink that's slightly more literal.

The ad, which appeared in the Sacramento Bee, claims Gain makes clothes smell "garden-fresh, not grandmotherly." It included a side-by-side photo comparison of a bag of potpourri, captioned "Smells like Mee Maw," and a bottle of Gain, which apparently "Smells like Yee Haw!"

As a grandmother—whose grandkids call her mee-maw—Reidy was offended twice over.

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