Registered: May 2005
Location: At the Terrace, wineing
lol mexicans...
wait, what?
quote:
Burger King apologizes for ‘Texican whopper’ ad
REUTERS, MEXICO CITY
Thursday, Apr 16, 2009, Page 10
Fast food giant Burger King apologized on Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a squat Mexican draped in his country’s flag next to a tall cowboy and said it would change the campaign.
Mexico’s ambassador to Spain said posters released in Europe for Burger King’s new Tex-Mex style “Texican whopper,” a cheeseburger with chili and spicy mayonnaise, inappropriately displayed the Mexican flag, whose image is protected under national law.
The ambassador wrote a letter complaining to Burger King and requested the ad campaign be discontinued.
Burger King said the ads were meant to show a mixture of influences from the southwestern US and Mexico, not to poke fun at Mexican culture, but said it would replace them “as soon as commercially possible.”
“Burger King Corporation has made the decision to revise the Texican Whopper advertising creative out of respect for the Mexican culture and its people,” it said in a statement.
“The existing campaign falls fully within the legal parameters of the United Kingdom and Spain, where the commercials are being aired and were not intended to offend anyone,” the company said.
A TV version of the advertisement shows the lanky cowboy and the pint-sized Mexican wrestler — nicknamed “Just a Little Bit” — living together as roommates. At one point, the American lifts up the Mexican to help him put a trophy on a high shelf.
Apr-15-2009 19:56
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
I can't wait until BK comes out with a bacon-cheddar Falafel. The reactions ought to be entertaining, at the very least.
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Apr-15-2009 20:31
woscar
Starstuff
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Guatemala, Guatemala
quote:
Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I can't wait until BK comes out with a bacon-cheddar Falafel. The reactions ought to be entertaining, at the very least.
And they should have told the ambassador to shove it. That's not the Mexican flag...just a red, white, and green cape.
“Burger King Corporation has made the decision to revise the Texican Whopper advertising creative out of respect for the Mexican culture and its people,”
baaaaaaaaahahahahah
Apr-15-2009 21:03
SuspicionVandit
Rapper
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: 127.0.0.1
It doesn't seem that the commercial is offensive, the poster is.
Pics?
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Apr-15-2009 21:13
Halcyon+On+On
Liebchen
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: midcoast
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Apr-15-2009 22:06
SuspicionVandit
Rapper
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: 127.0.0.1
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Everything is beautiful. Let the music carry you. Baby I will follow you forever. Nowhere else I'd rather be when you're lying next to me. Let the music carry us together.
anti-JennyPie Alliance
SuspicionVandit: Are you God?
Paul Van Dyk 09-24-2009: No, but I can sign your sleeve under that name if you let me!
