Whopper Virgins: Most Exploitive and Horrible Ad Campaign in Recent Memory
I LOVE Whoppers. As a kid, I was a Burger King burger lover. I’m old enough to remember the romance of the 99 cent Whopper. I even took advantage of a $1 Whopper Jr last week. BUT, their latest ad campaign is the worst and most insensitive EVER.
The Whopper Virgins campaign (www.whoppervirgins.com) brings us to the corners of the earth to find people who have never seen a burger, never mind a Big Mac or Whopper. There we see Micronesians, Tibetans, Aborigines, and all the peoples of the earth who have never seen a hamburger, asked to taste test Big Macs vs. Whoppers. According to the commercials, they unanimously choose the “flame-broiled” Whopper.
From the first moment I saw these commercials, I thought one thing: these people are ALL gonna yack. I mean, I grew up eating these over-processed pleasures, and they nauseate me whenever I give in to those tasty temptresses. And I am NOT a Whopper virgin; I’m a Whopper slut. All I think is, “We have replaced your normal diet of millet and fresh fruits and vegatables with the most unhealthy meals on earth. Tell us. What do you like better? The Big Mac ( 540 calories) or the Whopper (770 calories w/cheese).” Once they comment on the taste, their bodies need to digest the 48 grams of fat and 52 grams of carbs they just poisoned their bodies with. I wonder how many of these “virgins” die during Whopper “sex”. It is so horrible.
Admittedly, I’m a little jealous of the creators. There was a team that sat around a room (probably replete with one of those garbage cans with a small basketball hoop attached to it) brainstorming ideas, drawing pictures and reading marketing reports. At the end of a few weeks of sushi lunches, meetings, market research and planning sessions, the development team emerged with this retarded campaign. Couldn’t you have made the same point by using like Martians or Klingons? We get it: we need an impartial jury to have a true and honest taste test. Did you really have to reach for out to the most unspoiled and untainted beings on the face of this planet and rape them with American gluttony?? Did you pay them with wampum? Maybe they agreed to die of colon cancer for a few cases of fire water. If someone from this agency reads this post, please hire me on a contract basis just to be the one to fire these bleeding asses. Good job, dickheads!
January 5th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
word!
January 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
ahahhaa. i know what you mean. I am proud to say I haven’t eaten fast food in a very long time and never really did, of course I experimented in college with someone named wendy who had those little bacon burgers i was usually stoned. and there was this one drunken time after a police concert I took a bite out of a cheeseburger from mcdonalds.
I am a whopper virgin. and hope to never have whopper sex. I think this is discriminatory and mean. you should leave those people alone. let them be free of oils and pesticides. im sure it is all filmed in china anyhow.