Beauty Queens: Product Promotion

You've probably noticed product placement in movies and TV shows (the glamorous main character is drinking a certain brand of soft drink... and being paid lots of money to show off that soft drink).  Or how about celebrity spokespeople?  Sometimes a star endorses a product that he or she doesn't even have a connection to (a tennis player endorsing a certain brand of tennis balls is one thing, but a football star plugging a particular brand of bread seems like a big jump).  In Beauty Queens, we see quite a bit of product-pushing from The Corporation.  An example is on page 316, the Commercial Break featuring Maxi-Pad Pets.  The author really makes these placements/endorsements over-the-top, which helps us to see their ridiculous nature.  What do you think about the products and the treatment of product placement/endorsement in the book?  Is there a particular example that stands out to you?  How do you think these pieces added to (or detracted from) the book overall?