Posted
4/15/2009 05:56:00 PM
by Douglas
Fake advertising controversy was real
funny when it laughing
with the Mexican, not
at them:
Fast food giant Burger King apologized Tuesday for an advertisement featuring a squat Mexican draped in his country's flag next to a tall American 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 chile and spicy mayonnaise, inappropriately displayed the Mexican flag, whose image is protected under national law.
Burger King said the ads were meant to show a mixture of influences from the southwestern United States and Mexico, not to poke fun at Mexican culture, but said it would replace them "as soon as commercially possible."
Instead of wearing a Mexican flag, they're going to have to go back to using their first choice to designate the actor in the commercial as a Mexican: A leaf blower.
I don't know, Jefe, that looks like a pretty good burger to me.