Loosen up the butthole and enjoy a Whopper, people!
Good Lord, people. Relax. It’s a freaking hamburger.
Looks like the tight-bung holed people of the world are at it again. This time, their sights are set on that fat laden hamburger joint just trying to pop their top a tad and grow some business. Leave it to the sensitive bleeding hearts of this country to come after a stupid advertisement.
Have any of you seen the latest ad campaign that Burger King has launched? Where BK takes the Whopper to various places around the world, to people that have no idea what they are eating? They are labeled “Whopper Virgins”, and it is BK’s way of finding a true taste test done by people, that in all honesty, are more worried about feeding their Oxen or baby Seals or whatever, than a hamburger.
“We traveled to find the most isolated people in the world … the world’s purest taste test,” a voiceover says.
All of them more or less don’t know nor care about what a Whopper or a Big Mac is, so they have them taste both and declare their winner in Russian or Inuit, or Jibberish.
Well, people in this country are outraged by this. They feel that Burger King is exploiting third world countries citizens for a fast buck. They feel that this is America’s way of crass talking to the third world.
No need to “Freak Out” over the Whopper. (Play on previous ad campaign totally intended)
Hey people! Loosen your buttholes a bit will you? Seriously. It’s a freaking burger joint, not the Almighty Lord Barack Obama talking to the Ethiopians through a megaphone like they are old and stupid. THIS is the reason why the rest of the world hates America. This and Paris Hilton and her finding her BFF. And definitely Spencer Pratt. Heidi too.
Look. I have two things to say.
One is that controversy only fuels the ad campaign it is embroiled in, so if for one second you think that Burger King execs are not sitting back with their Ad agency execs laughing all the way to the fucking bank, you’re as wrong as the casting of that red headed downs syndrome girl as the youngest Seaver on “Growing Pains”. Really, controversy breeds discussion, which helps brand awareness, which creates top of mind awareness, which makes sheep walk into a Burger King and order a Double Heart Attack Surprise with a side order of Diabetes…and a Diet Coke.
Two is this. With all the shit going on within our own country, the Depression we are headed for, moral decay, the Lions going 0-16, the devaluing of our currency because our government is loaning money to people who will piss it away faster than a Vietnamese hooker passes the Clap on, don’t you think that we should be worrying about something more than whether or not the number 2 burger company in the world is trying to make some money? Yeah, thought so.
Oh, and by the way? The countries and people that the sensitive hemorrhoids spewing concern are worried about? They love the ad campaign, don’t find it offensive at all and actually are having some fun with it. Says a lot about us high and mighty folk here in the States that even people with no food or teeth can have a little fun at their own expense…and ours.
God we are wound so tight over here. We all need to get laid. And we all would, if we weren’t so worried about catching the Clap.
I had actually assumed that this whole campaign was fabricated from the ground up. Then again, I couldn’t give less of a shit about Burger King.
I thought that it was too. And to a large degree I think that it still is, but I liked the campaign from the teaser ads I saw and I don’t see the big deal.
Hello!! They are feeding people in third world countries, aren’t they? Lay the fuck off, people!
A to the men, Pamela! They are feeding people in third world countries and providing jobs in this third world country. I agree. Lay the fuck off.
I laughed my ass off when I saw those commercials. Figured some people would probably get mad at them because some people I guess have nothing better to do than find random things to be offended by and then proceed to preach to everyone else about how terrible they are for not being equally offended. I just don’t seem to have the kind of energy to get all riled up over hamburgers.
Apparently, I do have too much excess energy to get riled up at the people that get riled up over a hamburger. It’s too bad I don’t eat those anymore otherwise I’d be face first inside a Whopper right about now out of sheer principle.
Great. Now I want an order of Double Heart Attack surprise with a side of diabetes *sigh* Thanks…I was doing SO WELL with my diet.
Too funny
I hear you can offset that side of diabetes with a side salad with fat free dressing. I used to love that about working in fast food.
“I’ll have a fat fuck burger, a large potato cooked in bacon fat, a half an apple pie…a side salad and a diet coke.”
at least bk is doing more than what some of the people that are complaining are doing.
You got that right. I wonder though, do they get to have it their way?
Blah.
The only thing good on the BK menu is the Italian chicken sandwich, and that seems seasonal. Assholes!
I haven’t had it yet. I haven’t had a good burger from anywhere in months. I did lose a second chin in the process, but, still, I might have to splurge soon, eh?
I like the ads too. Who gives a flying fuck if they had to travel to Mongolia to find a Whopper virgin? It’s their dime, it’s their ad, it’s mildly creative.
What is more offensive is those stupid ass McDonald’s ads propagating the stereotype that all black males under the age of 13 all dance like idiots to hip-hop at their dinner table, and their parents don’t beat the hell out of them like Florida Evans would have. I’d like to see that ad…dynomite!
I think the commercials are entertaining in the fact that they travel thousands of miles to a group of people surviving on banana leaves, dust and fecal matter and then have the balls to say..’See, this guy thinks it’s good’.
I hate uptight bungholes. Give the starving folks a couple of free burgers and people get pissed? What would be cool is if a European beer company came over here and gave the bums two bottles of imported beer and asked which one is better. 9/10 would probably say, “Fuck, I don’t care how it tastes — it’s alcohol.”
I had a dream about you last night Matt. For real.
BigMac vs Whopper…who fukkin cares, I don’t eat either, so be thankful I don’t do add campaigns;)
WE ALL DO INDEED NEED TO GET LAID, AND OFTEN … THAT WAY WE CAN ENJOY BURGER KING.